a LITTLE perspective

Dave and I started our wedding planning this week - and it have been two emotional days. I have this BIG picture of "PRETTY" in my head and what I want that I think I kind of lost perspective of what it's all about.  

After some thinking and seeing this...

                                                                 ... I realised that this wedding is not really about the 'wow" factor or  having the most expensive stuff but it's about God and the people.

I think I've been putting a lot of pressure on myself for it to look nice and about what other people think and it's kind of swamped me. It's caused me to loose focus and get caught up in the "WOW this is crazy" instead of on God and trusting in Him and letting Him be my peace in all of this.  I also think I've gotten a little to much caught up in the wedding side of things - when I should be excited more excited about the marriage. Marriage is what the wedding is all about - it's God bring two people together forever. The wedding is just the party/celebration and shouldn't really be the focus. 

I don't doubt whatever Dave and I choose to day for our wedding won't be beautiful - we know too many people for it not to be, but the real beauty will be in God being VERY present at our wedding. And that's the most important part. 

xKx

What about the unreached?

I've always wondered what will happen to the people who don't know Jesus or of him because they are unreached. By "unreached" I mean, people who live in the mountains, forests and areas where they have never heard of Christianity and Jesus. Places where missionaries haven't been and the word of God hasn't been taken before.

Yesterday morning I was thinking about this and wondering if they will go to heaven - the bible is clear that you have to accept Jesus as your lord and saviour in your life. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life - John 3:16"  After I had this thought I sat down and has my quiet time and it was on Romans 10:5-21 and it was kind of like God was saying, I have the answer to your question.

Romans 10:20 says; "and Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me"

What my basic understanding of this verse is that Isaiah is saying that God will reveal himself to people who don't seek him and ask for him. In other words, God is big enough to reveal who he is, how great, powerful and mighty he is to everyone - even people who don't know of him or know him. 

I think that even though there are thousands of unreached people out there, God is big enough to reveal who he is to them. I also believe he'll do it in a way that they will understand that it is Him.  I don't know if He'll send missionaries, random people, use creation, or have the vaguest idea of how He'll do it, but I believe that He will do it.

I also think we need to be praying for the unreached and that we're open to God sending us to them to bring His good news.

xKx

God is faithful even when it doesn't seem like it

A while ago a friend and I were chatting about God's promises and how we tell people that God always keeps His promises and is always faithful.  The reason this came up was because we were talking about a situation where a promise God had made to them had changed. It left us wondering, if the previous statement was true.. that God is always faithful and always keeps His promises.

Yesterday morning I was thinking about the Israelites and how God had promised that he would rescue them take them to the promised land.  He kept this promise, and took them to the promised land BUT it wasn't the generation that was given the promise.  So was God unfaithful to them? Did He break His promise? No, He kept His promise - the way the promise looked just changed.

So why did generation one of the Israelites not make it into the promised land? They sinned, they disobeyed God, they worried and moaned ALL the time.  God gave them chances and then the promise changed. Generation one never got to the promised land, but generation two did. God kept His promise but because of sin the way the promise looked changed.

How does this apply to us now a days since we're not generation one of the Israelites? The way I see it, God still gives us promises but sin, choices we make, other people involved make, etc can change the out come of that promise. God may promise us something, but we may do something, or something might happen and the original promise may not be applicable anymore, so God then works the best in that situation and a different outcome of the promise happens. It doesn't man that God hasn't kept His promise, it just changed. It doesn't mean that God isn't faithful, He is. The way it was meant to happen changed and God did something new - but He still works the good in the situation and completes what He said He will do, it just may look different to how we originally thought it would unfold.

xKx