Keeping On Keeping Going

by Admin

As I write this, snow lies thick on the ground and wherever you go, talk is of the weather. Let’s hope that by the time you read this we will be able to say goodbye to it for another year. Whilst at its worst, people were having accidents – accidents walking, accidents driving: we have had them ourselves or nearly had them or we know someone who has.

During those weeks, some of us sat at home or at best went out very gingerly and then not far, or if we had work or caring duties we tried to carry on as normal, a bit like the person we know who set off home from work one teatime and finally arrived some miles away at 2am in the morning!

Perseverance and determination were the key with a bit of courage mixed in. Those qualities are important in our Christian understanding of life as well. At the end of the wonderful passage on the Christian armour (Ephesians 6) Paul reminds his readers that we have to ‘keep alert and never give up’. In the equally celebrated chapter on the resurrection from the dead (I Corinthians 15), the same writer exhorts the church at Corinth to ’stand firm and steady,’ (verse 58, both quotes from the Good News Bible).

There is also an appropriate message for our church at this time. To ’stand firm and keep steady’ is going ti be needed by all of us in the days and months ahead. We need to encourgae each other, support and work with our elders in all they do and as much as anything pray for our work. Thank God, the God whose thoughts and ways are much higher than ours (as our reading of Isaiah 55 reminded us at a recent service) that He sees the bigger picture and knows the plans He has for us, even if we haven’t a clue or at best a dim idea of them. God bless us as we persevere with faith – He can do ‘exceedingly abundantly more than we ask or think.’

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