A Heart Untroubled

I was thinking today how easy it is to get involved with rushing around! I remember not long after John and I were married, it was Christmas time and one Saturday we had been asked to help a friend move.  Another person came to ask us if we could help with a Charity Carol singing event, and then another person wanted us to help with Carol singing round the neighbourhood for the church.  There were a couple of other things too, and suddenly we found ourselves overbooked. We did everything we had agreed to but it was a rush.  As soon as something was finished we had to run off to the next thing.  The people we were helping out all wanted us to linger and fellowship for a bit, but we couldn't.  After that, we agreed a better way for us to consider what we got involved with so we didn't have to rush around. Rushing and busyness are symptoms of a modern world, but these are not how Jesus live.  Consider Mark 5.. Jesus has just been approached by Jairus and he's heading o

Welcome to 2020! I pray you will more deeply experience the love of Jesus and more passionately pursue the Kingdom of God than ever before. As we start the year,  I like to think about where I have come from over the last year, where I am and where I want to be.  As I thought about this, I was thinking about what hinders me in being all God made me to be. In 2 Kings, chapter 3 several kings get together to go up against the Moabites in battle.  The Moabites look out across a river where they Israelites are all camped and see what they think is blood.  They decided that the kings clearly all attacked each other allowing them to simply go in and take the spoils.  When they get there, however, that's not the case and they turn tail and run.  The Israelites chase them and they fight in an interesting way. They set the SLINGERS on the city of the Moabites. The slingers (v25) take stones and throw them on every good piece of land and down every well. They won the battle in part,