God is good!

You know, the Lord really is good. When I pray and ask Him for help he never lets me down. Recently I have been going through a troubled time. I have stresses at work that sometimes make me resentful of my employers - especially my manager. Recently, as I have been walking to work, I have felt hate and anger welling up inside me. This makes me feel bad and I get angrier and angrier as I walk. I begin to visualise myself confronting my manager and verbally abusing him or humiliating him in front of others.

Before long I realised that these feelings are caused by the devil finding a new way to tempt me to sin. Straight away I prayed (as I walked along the road) ...

Oh Lord please help me to avoid this temptation to the sin of Anger,
Give me the strength to ignore the devil's tempting,
Fill my heart with love for the brothers that I have deemed enemies,
I ask this in the name of Your Son Jesus Christ.
Amen

And although it took a moment my anger started to recede! It eventually did and I walked along with a lighter heart - Praise the Lord!!

N

A wonderful book

I have just dicovered a wonderful little book called The Earnest Communicant - A Course of preparation for the Lord's Supper. The book was written by the Right Reverend Aston Oxenden, once Bishop of Montreal. My small leather-bound copy was published in 1896 but the book was originally published in 1866 ( i.e. 140 years ago) The Right Rev gives advice on how to spiritually prepare for Holy Communion. He gives daily examples of prayers and meditations. Here is the an example.

O MY GOD I desire now to approach thee: do Thou grant me Thy presence and blessing. Strengthen my faith. Thou knowest how miserably weak it is. Oh, take away the evil heart of disbelief, and give me a believing, loving heart.

There is a lot more but I can't type it all. Needless to say, I am very pleased to have found this book. It is small so I can carry it with me and read it at odd moments. Bye for now.

God Bless - N

I love the Lord Jesus

This is just a quick post to say that I love the lord Jesus. These are the reasons:

• That He is God - our creator.
• That He taught us the right way to live.
  
• That He never sinned.
• That, even though He was without sin, he died in our place.

Hallelujah - Praise the Lord!