This week has been a very reflective week and at the start I was overcome with doubts, many things have been going through my head and the confidence I thought I had within this area seemed clouded, possibly because living in Paisley I don’t get much chance to get out and about with youth to keep my ‘foot in the door’.
God is faithful, He assures me time and time again.
God revealed Himself to me in many ways this week in particular through a song that a friend from college sung “For I know the plans I have for you, “ the more he sung it the more I could tell that it was heart felt it wasn’t a open the book and play this song it was a plea from me to him, sing to me whats on your heart, sing to me what you most like to say to God. I had never heard this song before, sure I’ve been given the verse Jeremiah 29 v 11 on many cards, in texts, in letters but to hear the power of the words and the conviction in which they were sung, well to say the least the assured me and it gave me comfort.
And being in nature someone who needs to be told over and over again I received a phone call, the conversation was important, but the real but the depth was remarkable, god spoke through that and assured me. God has called me here and no matter how hard it may get and how much work is needs done I’ll be doing it carrying out His plans for me.
The safest place I can be is where God has called me to. If I’m brought to it, He will get me through it.
Thank you to both the person who sung that song, and to the person who made that call, may you continue to be vessels for the Lord in doing His works.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD.
“I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.”
Jer 29 v 11 MSG
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Monday, 9 February 2009
It was very very good!!!
This weekend I had a chance to get home to Bo’ness to spend time with family and friends after my first week back in classes.
The first week back went very well with us receiving the list of assignments it helps you to get into perspective for what is to come in the next 12 weeks.
With it being the first week back I don’t have a lot to say about college, but my trip home however is a very different story.
A busy weekend with very little spare time I got to meet up with various different people and enjoyed my time.
The weekend brought many highlights but one in particular will stay with me I hope and Pray for a long time, this was a “chance” meeting with a farmer, I say chance but I don’t believe in chance, I believe in a God whose timing is always perfect.
It was a completely refreshing meeting that inspired me and refreshed me. I met Muddy on Friday when I arrived at the station so we could go for a coffee, after our coffee we stopped by a local farm to pick up some fire logs, something I had never done in my life but ah well I will try anything once. The farmer there came over to speak to us and the conversation that took place was between strangers but it was honest and open. The farmer, David is a hard working man who inspired me with his honesty and clarity, he himself said that he was not a Christian but this phrase that was said as an off the cuff remark challenged me “Every morning I wake up and I see all of this, God’s creation, I’m right up at the front of the creation every morning and I know that it is the creation of God. A lot of people are caught up in the concrete jungle but I see the seasons up close.”
Personally it challenged me this week we were asked in college to look at Genesis 1 and coming over on the train I looked it like the story we were told at school, the story I’ve covered teaching Sunday School or in kids clubs, but right there I felt the passion in David’s voice the reality is for me, I needed a reminder of the beauty of the world, and I got it. The man who gave me a reality check, a man who said it like it is.
Looking at my course work now I’m refreshed and ready to grasp the meaning of the verse “And God looked at all He had made and He seen that it was very, very good.”
The first week back went very well with us receiving the list of assignments it helps you to get into perspective for what is to come in the next 12 weeks.
With it being the first week back I don’t have a lot to say about college, but my trip home however is a very different story.
A busy weekend with very little spare time I got to meet up with various different people and enjoyed my time.
The weekend brought many highlights but one in particular will stay with me I hope and Pray for a long time, this was a “chance” meeting with a farmer, I say chance but I don’t believe in chance, I believe in a God whose timing is always perfect.
It was a completely refreshing meeting that inspired me and refreshed me. I met Muddy on Friday when I arrived at the station so we could go for a coffee, after our coffee we stopped by a local farm to pick up some fire logs, something I had never done in my life but ah well I will try anything once. The farmer there came over to speak to us and the conversation that took place was between strangers but it was honest and open. The farmer, David is a hard working man who inspired me with his honesty and clarity, he himself said that he was not a Christian but this phrase that was said as an off the cuff remark challenged me “Every morning I wake up and I see all of this, God’s creation, I’m right up at the front of the creation every morning and I know that it is the creation of God. A lot of people are caught up in the concrete jungle but I see the seasons up close.”
Personally it challenged me this week we were asked in college to look at Genesis 1 and coming over on the train I looked it like the story we were told at school, the story I’ve covered teaching Sunday School or in kids clubs, but right there I felt the passion in David’s voice the reality is for me, I needed a reminder of the beauty of the world, and I got it. The man who gave me a reality check, a man who said it like it is.
Looking at my course work now I’m refreshed and ready to grasp the meaning of the verse “And God looked at all He had made and He seen that it was very, very good.”
Monday, 2 February 2009
NEW YEAR, NEW FOCUS!!!
As I prepare to start my second semester, I have been encouraged to look back over the past five months I have been living here in Paisley. To say it has all been plain sailing would be covering things up, to say the least but I have learnt a lot through this time.
I still have not found a new church properly although I have been attending Central Baptist Church and Bethany Evangelical. Both churches have made me feel welcome but I am still missing being around Bo’ness Baptist and all the excitement.
This semester I have three new courses which will conclude my first year at The Scottish Baptist College, this semester the classes are Evangelicalism, Pastoral Ethics and Biblical Exegesis. I look forward to learning more about all these subjects.
I have received my results back for the three classes that I undertook last semester and I have passed them all, I am very happy with this as it assures me that with hard work and reliance on God I can get through it all.
God has blessed my time here so far and I would ask for your continual prayers as with each semester comes more work and requires a deeper thinking and knowledge.
With all my Love,
Cindy.
I still have not found a new church properly although I have been attending Central Baptist Church and Bethany Evangelical. Both churches have made me feel welcome but I am still missing being around Bo’ness Baptist and all the excitement.
This semester I have three new courses which will conclude my first year at The Scottish Baptist College, this semester the classes are Evangelicalism, Pastoral Ethics and Biblical Exegesis. I look forward to learning more about all these subjects.
I have received my results back for the three classes that I undertook last semester and I have passed them all, I am very happy with this as it assures me that with hard work and reliance on God I can get through it all.
God has blessed my time here so far and I would ask for your continual prayers as with each semester comes more work and requires a deeper thinking and knowledge.
With all my Love,
Cindy.
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