It's the little things!

Well it seems a very long time ago since I lasted posted something on our blogg. Several weeks have passed and in the meantime as you can see Iris and I have been off on holiday to Greece, for a well earned rest. This year in particular, we really needed our break, and so I deliberately did not take any thought provoking heavier reading material. Instead I brought along a Tom Clancy novel that I could read my way through and “relax”, or that was my plan at least.

Have you ever noticed though, that when our heavenly Dad wants to speak to us about something he has a way of getting our attention, wither that be when we are sitting under a tree feeling totally defeated and sorry for ourselves or in the belly of a Great Fish , actually or metaphorically, due to our own disobedience.

Getting back to Tom Clancy! There I am sitting beside our hotel swimming pool, relaxing, as Iris and Carol our daughter, who lives in Greece, play with two of our lovely grandchildren in the water. I’m just at the beginning of my book and getting to know the characters, one of whom is a multi billionaire, when I get broadsided by a real spiritual torpedo. You see, this guy has seemingly, just lost a large amount of money amounting to several thousand dollars, and he makes the following observation “when your worth is measured in billions, the little things don’t matter”. A simple enough though you may think, particularly, for such a rich man, who probably had just lost something equivalent to a whole year of my salary.

But then I get this sort of spiritual tap on the shoulder, as an uninvited thought enters my consciousness, “Did you not know that you are worth even the smallest drop of the blood Jesus freely poured out for you?” Yes Lord I did realise that, you know I did. At this point I felt a little like Peter when Jesus asked him three times “Peter do you love me”. So why have you been worrying or even getting so worn out about the “little things” if you truly knew your worth.

There beside the pool in that lovely situation my heavenly Dad cared enough, to take the time to put my head on straight with, as my friend Mike sometimes says ”a trip to the woodshed”. I can’t say I’m totally there yet, as I was reminded this morning, but that’s another story, because this has been a stronghold of my mind for most of my life. But I and making steady and relentless progress and with God’s mercy and grace, I know I’ll make it. What about you what do you thing you are worth? No less than me! God bless

By the way we all had a wonderfully refreshing break.