Study and Sunsets.

It's study vacation time. Which means I have exams coming up and am not spending as much time studying as I could be.

One thing I have been doing is sitting out on the balcony of my apartment enjoying the view. It's the perfect place for food, tea, a camera and of course my bible.

Here's some pictures from tonight's sunset:

I'm almost finished the book of Ezekiel. Two things that have constantly stuck me in this book is Gods saving grace and his anger.

First, I do get uncomfortable reading about blood being spilled and bones everywhere and altars and such. God being angry and ridding the land of people. And God demanding bold for sins.

But God always has a plan with this and one thing he does is bring people back to life and he restores them to his lands. Though he is angry he is not angry for long, when his people repent. He even plans ahead for when they do repent because he knows they will.

So the constantly remarkable thing about God is his capacity for forgiveness through his amazing grace.

Grace = getting what we don't deserve.

Mercy = not getting what we do deserve.

Yes God carries out his anger and wrath in this book but he is also forgiving and gives plans for the restoration of his temple, his holy place where he will continue to dwell with his people.

He has also made it so we don't have to shed blood anymore to be right with him. And he did that through Jesus on the Cross. He took our punishment and our death upon himself, the only perfect sacrifice, the only sacrifice acceptable to God forever. Everlasting! No more blood!

All God demands is recognition, he created us after all. So doesn't he have the right to this?

I know that he does and I hope that you so to.  I hope that you can look at God and see how amazing he is and now down. After all, he is our creator and he's give us everything.

He made us to know and love Him and to be known and loved by him.

So bow down before our God and come to a right relationship with him. Because we can now after what Jesus has done! We don't need to hide or be shamed anymore because we are forgiven.

So please! Go and be the person he designed you to be!

Someone who loves him and lives under his rule!

Many blessings!

Hard books like Ezekiel!

Been reading through Ezekiel.

The Prophet Ezekiel saw some weird stuff.

Example:

 Ezekiel 1:4-14 

I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, but each of them had four faces and four wings. Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning. 

        Now this is pretty weird stuff and being one of the books that describes God's  wrath and anger against Isreal it can be hard to stomach. But don't shy away from the Old Testament books. To understand Jesus fully we need the Old Testament!

 So pick up your bibles and have a read. It's okay not to understand everything. I certainly don't. But we live in a time with a great wealth of information available to us. So don't shy away from asking questions of your church leaders or mentors. Or even getting some good old bible dictionaries out.

There's nothing better than reading the word of God.

So keep reading!

    Here's where I enjoy reading the most!

Many blessings!

When God says Yes

Life... Life can be crazy.

It's been a while since I've posted anything. A long while for the internet world.

I moved out of my family home onto a University Campus. And the challenges of living outside of home have been both large and small.

       Here is a snapshot of the sunset I  now get to see every evening.

I live with four other students now and share housing is great but also a challenge.

But the best thing so far about all this change has been the way that God has looked after me. You see I moved out suddenly without any planning. I lived with a friend for a few weeks and then moved on campus.

God has provide for me every step of the way and I feel a deeper love and knowledge of him now.

The amount of time I spend in God's word is more than I can explain and the depth of love and trust I have for God causes me great contentment and satisfaction.

       The moon through my telescope!

I encourage all you readers to get your noses in the bible because that is where we learn to truly live and love God.

So get in your Bibles! Know God! Love God and feel the deep satisfaction and contentment that only comes from making your whole life about God.

God provides all and sustains all. He gave us his all in Jesus! What more could we possibly need?

Many blessings!