There are many things that can numb our conscience The person who loses their conscience truly has nothing left worth keeping, yet, keeping a conscience healthy and active in today’s world requires us to understand the difference between reckless liberty and Christlike love. While Scripture makes it clear that we have remarkable individual freedom under […]
Even before we are born, we hear voices and are comforted by the familiar voices of those we will meet all too soon. We know nothing much about them but one voice is special to us above others for it always seems to be with us whether we’re awake or asleep, the one who has […]
Are you a ‘smile, high-five or a wave’ person? What’s your preference for written greetings and sign-offs: Hi, Dear, Hey, Yours Sincerely, Best Wishes, Kind Regards? No doubt it depends on the person you’re contacting and the context. You can seldom be sure these days due to the many communication options whether there will be any top or tail let alone some abbreviation you don’t understand. The old order of things has gone out of the window with spelling and handwriting becoming ever more unpredictable. This is true also of the forms of physical greeting – no longer a reliable handshake in the West or nose rubbing in New Zealand. During Lockdown, we saw the arrival of fist salutes and elbow bumps. Greeting cards may still be big business but nothing quite matches a card received that a person has actually bothered to make for you. Do you still like to send and receive them? Perhaps this Booster has been sent to you as a greeting – if so, congratulations or commiserations as appropriate!
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
