The Journey

One day I was walking past a funeral parlour and I suddenly thought, wouldn't it be wierd if I started wailing? Yes, the African way of mourning traditionally is wailing, weeping or mourning whatever way you feel best describes the way you feel at that particular moment. However, this is the thing, my passing through a  funeral parlour doesn't make me a corpse. It doesn't speak anything to the person that I am, it doesn't diminish my being alive or the person that I am. Psalms 23:4 says "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." So, what situation are you passing through? It does not define you. Keep walking and sooner rather than later you will have walked through its length and it will soon be a distant memory. Stay blessed and keep Jesus as the focal point of your life.

As we begin 2018 we are beginning a new lap. A new year! May you be rejuvenated, excited, equipped with God’s mercies that are New every morning. Run the race set before you and run it well. Knowing we have cheering us on those heroes of faith we read of in the bible. Telling us they conquered and you can too! “Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans ch eering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through....