19 days to go…………

GCSE results day for my daughter……………….we have all done very well, lots of As and A*s, thank you Jesus for answering all our prayers during the long GCSE revision months…..

On Sunday I had to take my son up to Whitby where he is involved in the sound for the Whitby folk festival taking place there this week. After only seeing a handful of people for the last 3 weeks or so, having to drive through, Bridlington, Scarborough and then into Whitby where there were literally tens and tens of thousands of people all seemingly trying to get in my way as we hunted for an address right in the middle of Whitby by the swing bridge, was quite a traumatic experience and I longed for the quiet of the isolated beaches of the rugged Sutherland coastline…….What were all these people doing here and why were they all trying to get run over whilst eating fish and chips in one hand and an ice cream in the other and why were they all so huge………….It must be due to the fisn n chips n icecream.    

On the way home it suddenly struck me that it is all well and good going to somewhere isolated for a holiday, in fact it is excellent and I can highly recommend it but thats it, a holiday. We aren’t doing our job for God by cutting ourselves off from folk we need to be in amongst people, right in the mix telling the tens of thousands about Jesus and the love He has for everyone.

Jesus loved people He was always in amongst the crowds and the crowds flocked to Him…….

In Acts chapter 2 the disciples are meeting together and waiting as Jesus had instructed when suddenly the Holy Spirit descends on them all like tongues of fire and Peter steps out into the crowds of Jerusalem, there were tens and tens of thousands of people as it was the feast of Pentecost, it was just like Whitby during folk festival week. Peter wasn’t afraid, he told them about Jesus and in verse 41 it says about 3000 people became believers that day……………..Wow.

We cannot tell people about Jesus if there isn’t anyone there to hear, we must seek out the crowds we must seek out people and tell them about the love of Jesus, and carry out the job we have been entrusted to do.

Jesus at the end of Matthew says….All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age……………..This is our task, this is our main job, this is what we must endeavour to do at all times.

Monday was the day we had put aside for starting to deliver the posters advertising church, so with trepidation I set off out into Brandesburton and the surrounding area with 27, A4 posters. I needn’t have worried, we have prayed and prayed about posters, leaflets, Brandesburton and the surrounding area, God had gone before me………………..Everyone was so nice and wanted to put a poster up and the conversations I got into…… I was 35 minutes in one place just chatting about church and Jesus. It was a long afternoon but a fantastic one and by 6pm I was all talked out…………We now have posters up in 4 pubs, 5 caravan sites, 4 postoffices, a chippy, 2 butchers, a hairdressers, a newsagents, the golf club etc etc.

I am really looking forward to our worship meeting / practice tomorrow evening, it seems a while since we have all been together.

Played bowls again this evening…..my technique has suffered somewhat through lack of playing for nearly 3 weeks. We won, just…………….Next match Semi finals on Thursday, I will have to try and have a practice.

Sue has had a good harvest from the allotment today, but we have really suffered from the months without rainfall, even though it has been pouring down for the last few days, it is far too little and much too late. Thankfully we only do it for enjoyment and our lives do not depend on our harvest………………