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05/04/24

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Wounds - part two

This Sunday we are effected by the London Marathon in many ways. However, this also provides opportunities for ministry as our band are at Poplar for the morning, playing to the runners of the marathon and to those around.

I know from speaking to former marathon participants the value of hearing the music and feeling the encouragement of that moment of passing the SA stand on their route round the marathon.

This Sunday, we are due to carry on our thinking from last week. If you remember, Jesus invited those willing to see him and hear him, that they could understand the reality of his devotion, his power and his presence by seeing, even touching the wounds he had taken at the crucifixion. These were the culmination of showing the heart of God, where just previously, he had been weeping in looking over Jerusalem, sensing their despair and lostness.

This week we turn the tables a bit, and follow on, that if Jesus is willing for us to see and touch his wounds, he is also wanting us to be open and honest enough with him to know how much he wants to see and understand and touch our wounds. These wounds can come from many sources, loneliness, illness, education, working, not-working, homelessness, isolation, dysmorphia and difficulties of living.

We are not looking at the particulars of any one cause this week, but that the intention of God is to love sufficiently and for us to have confidence in that love for every cause of pain and woundedness in life. We are not alone, even if sometimes it feels that way. He wants us to live a good life, ' experience life to its fulness' (John 10:10).

We may be wounded, but in God's strength he is calling us to find new opportunities for living.

God bless,

Geoff.

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