This is the Lord’s Doing

As usual another wonderful Sunday at church with a really good turn out with some visitors as well! When we’re short on numbers the Lord always provides a visitor or two! This week I have a few announcements before I tell you about the message.

- We’ll be having The Lord’s Supper Sunday 6th June during the service

- Pastors Refresher Conference, being held at Lighthouse Baptist Church 2nd - 5th August 2010.

- Men and Boys Camp – Stay tuned for the date

- Ps Simon and Jan will be away in Papua New Guinea, I think in July sometime.

So pop those on your calendar if you are interested in attending and please join us on the 6th June for the Lord’s Supper at church. Now let me get onto the message from Sunday morning. Ps Simon took us on more of a bible study this week with the main focus being on fearing God. Today we fear man more than we fear God. I’m sure if you thought back throughout the past month that you could think of at least once when you feared man or something man could do. We have no need too, God says so in his word and He has all the power and authority in the whole world!

What Does it Mean to Fear God?

When I first became a Christian and put my faith and trust in God, I found the whole idea of ‘fearing’ God very hard to understand so I thought I’d share with you how I understand it. To some extent it is actual fear but it is also a reverential fear of God’s authority and power. Knowing that at any time God could wipe out you, me or even the whole earth and that is His right. He created us, everything you see, hear, taste, know of and understand. There is nothing that God didn’t create! Remember when you were a young child and would play with lego, trains, dolls or whatever toy you owned. You would create a fantasy world and everything was put in place by you and all that happened was created by you. At the end of the game you would destroy your creation whenever you pleased and it was over. This is just like God, only not a game.

We are living in the age of grace and we know God loves us and wishes none to perish. We also know that God is not going to destroy us just because ‘He feels like it’ which is a great reason to praise and honour Him every single day. God gives you a free will to love Him and to follow Him. As Ps Simon said on Sunday, it would be such a blessing to see people changing their lives and building their new life on the Lord Jesus Christ. Get excited about the Lord when you’re facing the good or even when you’re facing the bad. And even if you feel far away from the Lord, praise Him because trust me, He’s very very close by you always!

Have a wonderful week and God Bless the Lord that you are here reading this now.