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Welcome to my website, packed full of all the stuff my life is packed full of.
You'll find a little about who I am and how I got to be me in the My Life section.
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something to think about
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), well known for writing the hymn O Sacred Head Sore Wounded, wrote this:
“For our love of others to be wholly right, God must be at its root. No-one can love his neighbour perfectly unless it is in God he holds him dear. And nobody can love his fellow man in God who loves not God Himself.
We must begin by loving God; and then we shall be able, in Him, to love our neighbour too. For our nature is so constituted that it needs to be sustained, and He who made us is the One who meets that need.
In this way man-by nature animal and carnal, loving himself alone-begins to learn that it is to his own profit to love God, because in Him alone (as He has often proved) can he do all things which it profits him to do; he is quite powerless apart from God.”
When I’m worshipping God and focused on Him everything seems to fall into place. I’m being Mary, sat at Jesus’ feet and taking in all that He is and all that He has to say to me and give me. And while Martha is running around busying herself getting everything just right, even for His sake, Mary is just soaking in His presence.
But so much of me is like Martha, running around getting myself in a state, trying to keep various plates spinning but seeing one or two smash, and trying to keep everybody happy but realising I can’t do it. And it’s soul-destroying.
George Müller, the 19th century German missionary, did lots of work with orphans and availed himself for lots of people. But he was only able to do this because of his joy in God:-“Whatever is done…in the way of self-denial or deadness to the world should result from the joy we have in God and from the knowledge of our being his children.” If I live my life rightly and properly but out of a sense of duty alone, I’m setting the stage for disaster. But Muller says “Oh how different if joy in God leads us to any little act of self-denial! How gladly we do it then! How much does the heart then long to be able to do more for Him who has done so much for us!” And elsewhere he says “No situation, no business will be given to me by God in which I have not time enough to care about my soul.”
I NEED TO SPEND TIME WITH GOD!
I wrote this as a personal reflection on my Bible studies around the time I wrote the song “Lose Myself”
