He opens his heart up time and time again

One of my new favourite things about Jesus is that he keeps his heart open to people. Even when he was on this earth he fully loved people and told them the truth and there was no contradiction in that. He knew that he was going to be despised and rejected and yet over and over again he would chose to love and serve.

In this day and age we find it hard to keep our hearts open to people especially if there is an indication of difficulty or pain involved. If we think there could be rejection or separation on the horizon we would rather get out before we get hurt. How opposite to Jesus.

Jesus died for people who hated him (like us). He washed the feet of men who were going to deny even knowing him.

I have a feeling it's because firstly, he is love, and secondly he was so confident in the love of the Father and the Father was the one he lived to please, so even if people rejected his love he knew his Father delighted in him.

I really want to be like Jesus!

God, our creator

This week I have had two worship with the Word sets that have awakened my heart again to the wonder of God as creator.

When you read Job 37-38 you see God talking about storehouses of snow, boundary lines for the sea and him telling the lightening where to go. He is the God over all creation, this is to be a comfort to us. In Isaiah 40 Israel are called to remember the Lord God, the creator of the ends of the earth and to wait upon this one who is all knowing and all powerful. It's not just that God has wisdom but he has the power to act according to his wisdom.

When we look at the events of Revelation and we see the natural disasters that will be occurring we can know this: The safest place to be is to make the One who commands the lightning and thunder to be our refuge and to put our trust in him alone.