Selah2020: Pause and Reflect

[This reflection was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 31/October/2021]

One of my favourite films is the Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society. It is a fictional film based on real experiences during the 2nd world war in Guernsey. It describes how a group of people formed a book reading society which was challenged by the German Occupation during that time.

These people had a common cause, but they stuck together through thick and thin. They experienced tragedy in their everyday life but together worked through their circumstances against a common enemy.

How amazingly precious is the bond we have in our small groups in church life, sharing our sorrows and cares with each other. As we grow to trust each other, pray together and look to Jesus in everything we find that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord.

I love Psalm 133. It says that when brethren dwell together in unity that the Lord commands a blessing, even life for evermore. Even if the enemy would come against us with many things and accusations.

We can form a bond of love, fellowship and understanding that would send the opposition running and out of his dastardly schemes we can have life for evermore.

Every blessing as we face the future together

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