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Wednesday, 13 August 2025

The Overcoming God

 

A ship sank off the coast of India, Don tells me, taking with it a cargo of billions of small plastic beads, which will wreck the marine life in the area. Cheery, starting the day with that bit of news…

Well, I counter as I emerge from the prayer window: the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. For God, nothing is impossible. Ocean clean-up; peace in war zones; overthrowing of tyrants and disease, hunger and deprivation.

The news is generally dire these days, but I am going to praise the Lord of heaven and earth, who loves us and gave his life for us. Not in an air-head way, but in a deliberate act of faith in our loving and faithful Lord, who is the Alpha and the Omega, who has redeemed this earth from the tyranny of the enemy oppressor.

I believe in God the Father; I believe in Christ his Son; I believe in the Holy Spirit: my God is three-in-one. I believe in the Resurrection; I believe Jesus will come again. Why? How can I believe this? Because I have experienced his love, his mercies, his grace and his peace: he transformed my life. I know who I believe in.

And so I declare his praises this morning. Whatever my feelings about the state of the world, I believe in the loving faithful God, full of grace and truth and mercy and forgiveness.

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