Suffering as a believing Christian? Two.

Keep doing Good!

That is the mark of a true believer, honesty, truth and not being a gossip or meddler in other peoples business that has nothing to do with us?

Persecution and sufferings will come to us since our Lord Jesus had to go through the same, if we are serious about our belief, though it is hard it should not be a problem?

We have much to offer younger people in advice and guidance that it will get tougher and if it does not, then there is something seriously wrong in their walk that needs examination!

But is doing what is right and maintaining Integrity, strangers and the world will seek us out since we can be trusted?

Psalm 10:14, 31:5, Proverbs 11:30-31, Luke 23:46, Romans 2:9-10, 1 Timothy 5:13, 2 Timothy 1:12, 1 Peter 4:12-19.

Seventy years Ended!

The passing of British Queen Elizabeth-II Regina?

It was a great shock to many that this ninety-six year old faded so fast that she departed us on the 8th of September and with her went great wisdom and insight into the affairs of state and the world, if not her Christian experience?

Death will come to all of us, but it is what we make of our New lives and the legacy that we will be remembered for?

All believers have much to give to younger people, meaning everyone who is at least twenty years behind us, no matter what age we are beyond sixty or seventy years!

2 Chronicles 2:12, Job 9:4, Psalm 19:7, 49:10, Matthew 7:24, Romans 12:16, 1 Corinthians 1:26-27, Ephesians 5:15, 2 Timothy 3:15.

Suffering as a believing Christian? One.

‘Don’t be Surprised!

That first line of this verse written by the Apostle Peter is of great comfort to many of us who have gone through life and faced the pains, fire and darkness that pops up out of no where?

We can think on Job and how he was assaulted by Satan and then his friends, who thought they were right! Nothing much has changed over the thousands of years with the human mind in relation to thinking it knows better!

But we live in the New Covenant and to share in the suffering of Jesus, is a privilege and should not be a problem, but it is still a problem to many of us again and again?

1 Peter 4:12-19, Acts 5:41, Philippians 3:9-10, Jude 1:24.

On set Dementia?

Age not the Limit!

This is a terrible illness that is associated mostly with us oldies, but it is not limited and can be a factor at an much earlier age?

God understands us who suffer, but He wants us to share with younger people the reality of this disease that many people do suffer from forgetfulness and sometimes it can be more than it seems!

The causes may be from being hit on the head or falling and injuring oneself, but as we age we start to loose our memory from around the age of forty, we all go through it, ‘Where are the keys, did I lock the door, or leave that in the car and so on.

Sometimes forgetting can bring on good things when our minds come back, and it is not always a negative illness?

Please have patience with sufferers and show them God’s love, despite their actions and responses!

Deuteronomy 32:28, Psalm 111:10, Romans 2:4, 2 Corinthians 12:12, James 5:7.

Conceptual Idealism!

Causing or using Provocation?

Old age should teach us one thing and that is we must be wiser now than when we were younger, but this is not always the case!

World events at this time is being influenced by idealism, based on using provocation in the claims of supporting democracy in the case of Taiwan and the Ukraine, which are not democratic but Nazi-German based white nationalism?

As believers we are only to do what is right and not be deluded by bias based claims, that are not Christian in their ethic or really in their name either!

Deuteronomy 32:21-22, 1 Kings 16:33, Luke 11:53, Ephesians 6:4.

Gifts and being Comforted?

The Holy Ghost/Spirit!

As believers we all have received the Holy Spirit to empower us to serve, to understand the Holy scriptures and to share our faith of our choice and to give an account when we may be challenged to do so?

We can do very little without having the Comforter in our ever Now New Lives, the third person of the Holy trinity helps us in many ways, through troubled times, temptations, pain, suffering and attack and in prayer we may not be able even to be aware that he is there all the time with us!

John 16:13-15, Acts 2:1-4, Hebrews 2:1-4.

Grey Hairs!

Gained With old Age?

Some young people go grey at an early age and loose their hair, but that is a genetic condition?

Here we are dealing with wisdom that is gained from life experience and also our ability to have greater faith and know our limits too!

When we are young we are strong like wild animals of horses, we are invincible in the ability to do many things for the glory of God, seeing souls saved through our witness and activity to portray the message with music and drama if not other things?

But in old age that strength is mostly lost, so we have to know where we are and what we can and cannot do! But there is still much for us to do within the ecclesiastical family and we must try, sin Jesus has warned us that the night fast approaches, were we can do nothing more!

Proverbs16:31, 20:29, Romans 4:1, 2 Corinthians 12:1.

Forgetfulness!

Another Problem?

This condition is not limited to older folks, many forty year olds can get onset dementia or serious bouts of forgetting or loosing concentration so we should not be too quick to Judge!

But it is a problem as you get older forgetting time is a real problem, if not names of loved ones or just things that need doing?

Since the COVID-19 situation, many of us have taken a knock and it has been a slow progress to get back to something of a normal life again but we will hopefully if this winter is not as bad as the past two?

Job 8:13, Psalm 9:17, Proverbs 3:1, Luke 9:62, Philippians 3:13, Hebrews 6:1-2.

The Easter Message…

Does not Change!

Like Christmas Easter is a series of events that fulfill the prophetic of the Old Testament and the difference is that it is the finale of Jesus victory over death and the grave for all of us who believe in these events.

The atonement frees us from our failure, if we ask His forgiveness for those mistakes and God will never mention them again to us, even on the Day of Judgement!

Jesus had to return home, so that we could be given the comforter, the Holy Spirit that is our help in our New Lives the ever new now! But He has another role and that of working through us to convict the world of their sin and their need of salvation in Jesus!

Wither we are dogmatic or not, we cannot escape the facts of the cross, Jesus resurrection, his Ascension and promised return?

John 16:7-9, Jude 1:15, Revelation 6:9-10.

U.S. and European Revenue!

‘Out of a European War?

Us oldies will face more problems in the months to come with inflation, rising utility bills, even fuel prices hiking to the cover of the Ukrainian situation over that of failed policies in the U.K. and that of Joe Biden who is lost when it comes to economics!

Millions may flood into Europe and eventually the North-American continent and with it a strain on resources that will make our lot worse? COVID-19 has not gone away with strain No:46 a worrying factor for 2023 and the possibility of a nuclear exchange will not help either!

Pressure on leadership and mid terms could change things for the better, but we have to see sometimes what we do not fully understand maybe the will of God to do his bidding and men like many leaders in the past in their arrogance where struck down!

2 Samuel 17:2, Psalm 6:2, Ezekiel 16:30, Joel 3:10, Acts 12:23, 1 Corinthians 1:27,