Looking "AROUND"
(For those on on the SEAWEED blog- This is DEBBIE GAN)
I was looking back in my diary the other day and was pleasantly surprised and yet not really surprised about the number of answers to pray since whenever it was I started writing my journal. If you don't write a journal, I would definitely encourage you to start one because when you start writing down what God has been saying to you and what Gos has been doing for you in your life, it turns out to be a pretty amazing documentary (If I can call it that).
On Sunday (Which was the day I was SUPPOSED to post), I was encouraged by the message that was preached in EEC (Em manual Evangelical Church) in downtown London. The pastor was preaching from Isaiah 6:1-8. In short, he was talking about encountering God, which was very much on the lines of what we were discussing in our seaweed soup OCF group on Friday. Anyway, the main points were that when we encounter God in His fullness we would
- Look UP (to observe and stand in awe of HIS majesty and sovereignty. Like Jeremiah in Jer 32:17)
- Look IN (At our own sinful nature and the fact that we need forgiveness and cleansing)
- Look OUT (at the needs of the world, wanting to DO something for the LORD, for the LOST, as an act of gratitude and understanding)
- (this was not in the message but also) Look BACK (in PRAISE for what He HAS done)- This I think was what I was doing Sunday night going through my journal and realising JUST how much I've been blessed, how much I've learnt and although, I've made a heaps of mistakes, that I can be forgiven as well as learn from them.
- Look FORWARD (To what He is YET to do in anticipaction and excitement, preparing ourselves and others for the second coming)
I wish I could be more specific and maybe I will when I get to talk to a few of you...or rather, if anyone even reminds me since I have such an appalling memory.
By the way, thank you so much to so many of you for all your speedy replies to my previous mass email. I was very shocked to hear from some of you but of course, as always, VERY VERY VERY happy to be able to still keep in touch. By the way, if you guys have a moment or two, please do send me a recent copy of a picture of yourself since... unless, you know for a fact that I already have one. Thanks.
With all my Love to you all my dearest Brothers and Sisters- Debs
