Tag: calling

Guidance

Posted on by Olaf

Suppose in stepping on to this beach, you are given two choices.  Stay put to enjoy the scene or choose a boat and head off into the water?  In this metaphor for guidance, if you get into a boat you then have further issues to resolve: which boat, where is the destination, how to get there, what supplies are needed and who to take with you (if anyone)? Your life will have been like this multiple times for big and small things.  Sometimes you have a period of stability but other times, there is a need for a succession of choices as one thing leads to another.  The story is told of a ship’s Captain who looked into the dark night and saw a light in the distance. Met by repeated refusals to alter course and give way, the impatient Captain sends a final signal: ‘Alter your course ten degrees south. I am a battleship.’ The reply was, ‘Alter your course ten degrees north. I am a lighthouse!’  Oh that it was always so easy to make a wise choice!

A VISION OF GOD

Posted on by Olaf

Have you had a vision of God?  Do you want one?  The old saying is, ‘you don’t get because you don’t ask!’.  Actually it was Jesus himself who said this: ‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you’ (Matthew 7:7).  Have there been special moments when you’ve sensed God right next to you, in what you’ve seen, thought or heard?  Everyone who is called has heard a call, distant or close.  Some hear it in the early part of life as a child, some hear it in the crises of mid-life and others hear it in the very last parts of life.  It doesn’t matter when so long as you recognise and respond to the one calling.  So here are some visions others who’ve gone before have had and some thoughts to mull over!

‘And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.  Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days’ – Joel 2:28.29