Partners in Hope

Whatever the goal, the way to success is to plan how we will work to achieve it.

Our lives are unmanageable, our problems are too great, our issues are too confusing, and our emotional challenges are too overwhelming, unless God helps and defends us against our enemy.

Confession of our sins gives us protection from the power and accusation of the evil one.

When faced with difficult memories or emotions, how many of us have chosen to repress our thoughts and try to deny the impact of these experiences on us. We make excuses for behaviour – our own and others – and try to convince ourselves things were not as bad as others made out. We even try to make excuses with God about what’s gone on and try to convince Him to go along with our view of things even though He’s God and knows absolutely every little detail, even better than we remember it, of what actually happened and the impact events had on us and others. Is there a better way?

God offers us His friendship today.  The one who knows us best, loves us most, and has done more for us than anyone else, invites us to intimate relationship with Him today.  To accept His invitation is our choice.

We are praying today that each of us will enter into the identity that God has prepared for each one of us when He created us – persons of dignity and honour – oh yes, sinful and in need of a Saviour – but persons beloved by God.