Bildeston Baptist Church
real people, real life, real hope
Graeme’s Page September 2007
‘I lu U’
Our two year old daughter is saying more and more words each day. As her father, it gives me such pleasure to hear her try to communicate. When she comes up to me and holds out her arms and says ‘I lu U’, it makes me feel so good. (For those of you who can’t work out the ‘I lu U’, it is her best attempt at ‘I love you’). For some time she has been aware of our communication with her, she understands when we say it is bed time (although she doesn’t always like it!) and she is the first out of all the children to make it to the table when we say it is tea time. Sadly I’ve never had much luck with ‘could you fetch my slippers, but there’s still time’.
Toddlers learn to understand their parents, before they are able to verbally communicate back. Strangely, it is often the other way around with us and God, most people if they are honest do talk to God - I’ve even met atheists who have instinctively prayed when they were in trouble. However, many people would never have any expectation (outside of reading the Bible) that God would want to speak back to them.
The Bible is full of the exact opposite – people who only coped, because God did speak directly to them. We read in the Bible of a God who is a relational God. He is so desperate to know us, that when the barrier of sin separated humanity from Him, He sent his son Jesus to die to make it possible for us to be reconciled to Him (Romans 5 v6-11). If He has gone to all that trouble of being able to know us, then it stands to reason that He does want to communicate with us in a meaningful way.
On Sunday 2nd and 9th September, we will be exploring this whole area of God speaking to us. We will also be looking at what the Bible calls prophecy – ‘God speaking to someone who then has to relay that message to someone else’. If you didn’t know that God wanted to speak to you or if you have never thought it through, then come along to the church and find out more. People who have come tell us that the church is friendly and that our services are informal and helpful. Why not come along and see for yourself.
Graeme
Office Address:
Duke Street,
Bildeston,
Suffolk