Restore2Revive

Category: Life

  • Rediscovering Christmas Season

    It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, the season to be jolly, with mulled wine and mince pies, chestnuts roasting on an open fire and Christmas carolling. There’s a winter chill with a hustle and bustle in the streets of the city as shoppers buy gifts and gather supplies to get ready for their family feast.

    It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.

    But for many this isn’t the reality this festive season, it’s a time that can make the lonely feel lonelier and bring more tears of sadness than of joy. No matter what each of us may be going through this season there is hope for everyone, found in the miraculous story of Jesus birth and why he came into the world.

    Advent comes from the Latin word Adventus meaning arrival or coming. During that time in history the Hebrews looked forward to the coming of a promised Saviour or Messiah –through the birth of Jesus – the First Advent. Now as the people of God, on the other side of the cross we wait expectantly for His return – for His bride – the Second Advent. Our celebrations during the Christmas season are much more than simply remembering His birth but encourages us to keep looking ahead everyday with much expectancy for when He will return.

    May this time of year bring a fresh opportunity of rediscovering the Christmas season and the truth of the gospel story that’s still alive today, thats been displayed throughout history from the beginning of creation to the miraculous birth of Jesus, His life, His death, His resurrection and His promised return. This wonderful gift of Salvation and hope has changed our world forever.

     What an ADVENTure !

    Jesus is coming – AGAIN

  • He knows absolutely everything

    Who has ever known what God is really thinking ? Or who could advise God on the next best plan of action for all that is happening in the world today?

    As we watch and see the world around us shake with wars, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, virus outbreaks and plane crashes, how do we as the people of God really hold our heads and keep our focus when there appears to be so much unrest, fear and hopelessness ?

    Knowing that God is the only one who knows absolutely everything from the beginning of time, to this very present day in our lives and for what has still yet to unfold, should bring us much comfort and peace knowing that we can totally trust His sovereignty.

    I have just finished re-reading Andrew Wilson’s book “Incomparable” and been spending some time reflecting on a quote from well known author John Piper, who expresses the knowledge of God, and reminds us of how great our God really is;

    “Gods knowledge is unfathomably deep. He knows all recorded facts – all the facts stored in all the books in all the libraries in the world. But vastly more than that, he knows all events at the macro level – all that happens – all that happens on earth and in the atmosphere and in all the farthest reaches of the space in every galaxy and star and planet. And all the events at the micro level – all that happens in molecules and atoms and electrons and protons and neurons and quarks. He knows all their movements and every location and every condition of every particle of the universe at every nanosecond of time …. When one event happens, he not only sees it, but the eternal chain of effects that flow from it and from all the billions of events that are unleashed by every other event. He knows all this without the slightest strain on his mind. That is what it means to be God.”

    In a world that seems to becoming increasingly gripped with fear and uncertainty, there is one thing for sure, Jesus is our hope. He is our reference point. 

    He is the Alpha and the Omega.

    He is the beginning and the end.

    He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

    He knows absolutely everything there is to know about everything!