Whispers of His Power – APRIL 5
That longsuffering was … for us who also have to bear long with difficult souls.
That longsuffering was … for us who also have to bear long with difficult souls.
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth…
It seems that after all of the long journey from Bethlehem to Egypt, Nazareth to Galilee, Jerusalem to Golgotha, we finally end up where we began. ‘Do not be afraid!’ But this time the angels and our risen Lord provide an antidote for our fear. For all of our fears.
Sometimes even Christians write of death in a sad way. We regret to announce’, they say. The Salvation Army are right in the way they put it, ‘Promoted to Glory’.
With [the women] we are called to a persistent and practical faith-filled life which looks each night to be with our Beloved at dawn-break. And, as we fill our emptiness with devotion we too will hear Him call our name from the Garden Tomb
Let us not waste one hour in fear, in dullness, in despondency, for He is never nearer than when we do not see Him…
However I mark this Salvation Day, in worship, in passion plays, in processions, I know that by day’s end I am loved. May you know that same deep deep love which called our Beloved to the Cross that He might die for love of our love.
In these last few days of Lent step closer. Try to stand at the cross and remember what it was the first time you stood there as a lost sinner.
Then, as the Laodicean Christians were encouraged, listen for the knocking of the Light of the World on your heart’s door and let love in.
…I learned to pray, ‘Love through me, Love of God’.
To understand the force of any Scripture, a good plan is to put it into opposite words….