My Christian Walks

I heard a pastor at Parachute speak about this and thought I would put my own little spin on it. You have probably had someone say this to you before, "You are useless, mud, worthless; I would spit on you, etc etc..." Thing is, part of this is true, you really are no more than spit and mud. Give me a chance to explain why. Think back to Genesis 1, what did God make Adam out o?. He made him from the dust in the ground. He made man from mud, this useless resource God made man. So what? I'm not calling you useless because you are made of mud. In fact the very opposite. John 9  speaks of Jesus healing a man who was born blind. Back in those days you would have been rejected and pushed away for such a physical disability. However in this story it says that Jesus went to the blind man and spat in the dirt, mixing it together to make MUD! Jesus used this useless material to heal a man of blindness. He made a use out of useless. If Jesus can use mud to heal blindness...

When you think about the word 'indescribable' what comes to your mind? It might be a feeling, an emotion or even the taste of water (you know you can't describe it). What about God? What about his power? What about his grace? We can struggle to describe in words the one we call our God and that is totally fine and understandable and acceptable but today we are going to explore 2 of the indescribable things that God has done. Genesis 1:1 If you don't know what is written in Genesis 1 it’s the creation story. Now just think about it for a second. The first verse of the Bible describes the power of God. He has the power to create the heavens and the earth. That is an indescribable amount of power. Try wrapping your head around this. God created something out of nothing. He spoke and the world and everything was in it. Not only did he create these things but he created them and described them in as good. God created something by just speaking and it was good? We spen...

So maybe you are going through a tough time, we all do and that’s completely normal. 90% of the time you will be feeling like you can't tell anyone about it, that it's something that you have to deal with yourself because you got into the mess that you are in and you feel like you can get yourself out of it no worries. Sometimes you can but often you can't. So I'm going to tell you right now, TALK TO SOMEONE. Who though? Who can you go to, who can I trust, who has the knowledge and the wisdom to help me? These are all questions you will ask yourself when you are thinking of someone that you can’t talk to. Often you think the answers to these questions are no one. I'm going to tell you that that’s no right and I’ll give you 3 examples of people you can talk to. 1) God, often we don't think of God first, we feel like we don't want to bother him with our problems. Thing is that’s not right. God loves you, he loves everything about you. He made you with a p...