JULY MESSAGE

July message … How great is our God

I wonder what your favourite Psalm is …

one of my favourites is Psalm 8 especially verses 3 and 4:

When I consider your heavens, the work of your hands,

The moon and the stars which you have set in place,

What is man that you are mindful of him,

The son of man that you care for him?

This always reminds me of the hymn “How great thou art”

O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder

Consider all the works thy hand hath made

I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder,

Thy power throughout the universe displayed;

And when I think that God his Son not sparing,

Sent him to die I scarce can take it in.

That on the cross my burden gladly bearing,

He bled and died to take away my sin

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee

How great thou art, how great thou art!

How amazing that  the Almighty God who made the universe cares for each one of us as individuals enough to send his only Son to die for us all. Such immense love demands a response from us.

St Paul in his letter to the Romans suggested:

Therefore I urge you … in view of God’s mercy,

to present your bodies as living sacrifices,

or in the words of another well-known hymn:

Love so amazing, so divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Brian Turner … Churchwarden St Mary’s Knockin.