Teachings Tagged "God"

Firstly, I would like to apologise for not posting to the website, or even the Instagram page as often as I would like. The reason is that I have been struggling with my mental health and it has made things more difficult for me to focus, contemplate and provide pieces for you to get something from. As a result I would like to take a few moments to write about mental health and provide some food for thought.

Wow is this true! Many people consider miracles to be a thing of the past, of the days of the bible and that is it. I counter this by saying miracles happen even today and not only can we see and experience them in our lives, but we must also share what has happened with our communities (whether that be on social media, the places we live or the churches we belong to).

A person who is sick or injured can get a miracle 1 of 2 ways, either through a miraculous moment or through the medical profession. As Christians we are very familiar with stories of miraculous happenings, that extraordinary moment where God intercedes on our behalf and does something wonderous. For the purposes of this message we are going to focus on healing, whether physical or mental, the health and well being of people is important and important to God. There are other miraculous moments in the Bible, fire coming down from Heaven, metallic axe head floating to the surface of water, thousands of people being fed from a tiny portion of food… the list goes on, I’ll let you search for these an many more examples.

There are many things this post could be on, but what I want to focus on in this post is having a relationship with God.

If we look and study the bible the main thing that keeps cropping up is having relationship with God, we see this right through from Genesis to Revelation, from creation of humankind to the second coming of Christ and entering into Heaven. The bible as we know is split into two sections, effectively two covenants, the first in which we as people are given a set of guidelines to live our lives as without them we ultimately were tempted into doing things that have grave consequences for ourselves. So here we see God stepping in to try and protect us from ourselves by providing us with laws in which we are to be governed and look after ourselves as well as looking after the society we belonged to, namely the Jewish community.