Peace
On Monday, while waiting for Philip to finish his trailer test, I stood outside Costco, with loaded trolley, listening to some sermons. A message on Psalm 46 was particularly encouraging. Reference was made to the fact that, thoughout history, yes, even at the REformation, things look touch-and-go for the truth. It's nothing new, this is a demonstration of the verse 'God's ways are not our ways' - we'd do it differently, no doubt. How much mental and emotional energy is consumed in struggling to figure out how things could be 'improved' - how much better it would be if we just concentrated on focussing on God and being faithful and thankful. I ended up with ''the Peace of God keep your hearts and minds....'' running through my head. Last night I had a dream and in that dream there was a practical opportunity to put this verse into practice (!!). Instead of rationalising about how Ron would manage to drive this particular lorry along this particular narrow mountain track (which I had walked on earlier and assessed as pretty narrow) I was telling myself that calming my heart (having faith in Ron's capabilities) or calming my mind (rationalising about the fact that the lorry had got along the track before or it wouldnt' have been available to drive out again...) were to be avoided. In my dream I determined that I would fix my confidence on the keeping power of the Almighty! Then, also in my dream I remembered Psalm 16 'in the night my heart instructs me'. The Lord is truly amazing!