Wilf's Reflections

Twice this year I have read John Mark Comer's book the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. I am currently working my way through Waiting for Grace, which has a few big words in their for me, so that's slowing me in of itself! ;). This journey of reflecting and slowing has been off the back of 4 very full years of work in which I have moved house twice and to be honest felt a bit nomadic/not attached or planted in the House (Church) for the first time really since I first went to University. Amongst the speed and fullness of life, I have still been active in my faith and walk, but certainly i would say my relationship, like any other where less time is spent and invested is not as deep or close as it once was. In consciously drawing a line in the sand at the beginning of Oct, something i had in mind for some time, I slowly find my soul awakening and my desire/hunger for the Lord growing once again. In what has been a tough year for the world with Covid, it's been a tough yea...

The Sabbath... just some thoughts/reflection   Genesis 2.2 - 3 “2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done”   Wording to note here... “He rested from all the work he had been doing... He Blessed the day, setting it aside, making it Holy”. Holiness is something that we are called to pursue & be! 2 Peter 1, Heb 12.14, 1 Peter 1.15 – 16.. Paul calls us to imitate Him as he imitated Christ... the whole point of being a Christ follower is to follow the example of Jesus, our creator... Jn 1.1, Col 1.17. We see that Jesus rests after his days of work... setting us an example to follow, imitate.   In Exodus 20.8 – 11 “ Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—yo...