Fathers

For Christians we see God in three aspects as Son reliant on his father for his energy and who he is, also as the Spirit which feeds God the fathers people with spiritual nourishment and the guidance they need, and as the Father doing all the things listed above and more.

Like any father God wants the best for his children but also knows interfering in their lives will be resented. So God the father tries to guide us not control us. We do make mistakes as a result of not apprehending what God is willing us to do or simply ignoring it as many do. This can have direct consequences of our lives, those around us and indirect consequences like global warming which has affects all sorts of people.

God sees that ultimately all will be alright but knows to how we can cause suffering in the mean time. So if we follow the way of the Father set down by the Son a better world will surely result?

Gone?

Today in the Christian Callender is Ascension Day when in Christ is said to have gone from the Earth. For those left behind this must have been hard, and yet Christ was no normal person. For Christ tells he will give them a present of his presence, the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit guides, teaches and inspires the followers of Christ if they let it. It is an active presnce in their lives. So Christ did not go for long.

Alone in Crisis

One man knows what is to come, pain and humiliation. he knows this and he knows he can pull out at any moment. This decision does just affect him but the whole world. Does he put self preservation over the beginning of renewal for the whole world.

What would you choose?

He chose to put himself last and the world first. In the end there would be such joy for him after all the agony. The joy he knew would follow if people put others first.

A threat to Human Power

We are coming to the Christian Festival of Epiphany when Men of Learning followed a star to a King to ask if he knew where The King was. Herod was a King and he found the idea of The King a threat. A threat to his power and all he had built up here on Earth. Who is King in your life?

What hope does a child bring? A new beginning? And for whom? 2,000 years ago a child was born whose life and teachings can transform every life. He gives every person a new start. Not because they have earned it but because through him, his grace, we can all be set free.