COVERINGS

God loves to clothe His creation in beautiful dress. Daisies are now in profusion, clothing the grass together with other dainty flowers. If He loves to do this how much more His own people, as Jesus said. Nature has no casual clothes. Even weeds have their symmetry and beauty. We should dress in similar fashion.

In Ezekial 16 He clothes His chosen bride in fine raiment, something every girl dreams of. Yet she still plays the whore, turning after other lovers.

Only those who are dressed in the raiment He provides will be at the wedding feast. Perhaps another metaphor is fruit. We cannot go empty-handed.

IMAGES

How paltry our image of ourselves, yet we indulge it everyday.

Man in the image of God. 

What greater destiny to give our children.
The God of creation greater by far than any avatar.

TRUE SCIENCE

Science pulls our home to pieces, nothing too sacred to touch. The world is our domain and we seek paradise restored, progressing ever on but never arriving.

Redemptive science? Science true to the facts, embracing God's creative acts, acts which hold all things together for our good, promising a life to come. Science which restores God's kingdom, awaiting His return.

Man corrupts all he touches.

GOD'S STORY

O man seek not your glory,
Seek it alone in Him
Who made you for His story,
And rescue all from sin.

To rescue from all sin,
And find a home in Him,
The beauty of the ages
Come to dwell within.

DANCING OR DRILL?

Mass evangelism has produced truncated Christians, happily married to consumerism and preferring an arm chair to the battle field. The army knows more about discipline and self-denial than believers who favour pop songs to the battle cry, and would rather dance than drill.

There is a time for rejoicing as well as fighting but only Godly wisdom can discern it. Ecclesiastes 3

BALANCE

We need to marry a zeal for the rule of God on earth to the cultivation of the intellect, with God's glory and man's well-being, and that of His creation, as it's fruit.

'I beseech you....do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.'

Romans 12

HEAVEN ON EARTH

Doing what you love with people you love. A truer picture of God than we will ever know. The true meaning of the joy expressed during the last meal of the Messiah and His disciples.

THOUGHTS

The thoughts of men lie hidden,
known only to themselves.
They need a voice,
a word to drive them forth
for all to hear,
to stand or fall,
to live or die,
maybe ever more in memory lie
of some noble deed.

TRUE COURAGE

It says something good when the world can marvel at true celebrity - a king who could not speak but overcame his fear each time it threatened to undo him.

We have few heroes today.

POETRY

Pondering into poetry set
emotions free to flow,
so reaching higher peaks
to gaze upon the maze below.