Thought for the Month

Shipping problems came into view on 23 March this year when the ‘Ever Given’ got stuck in the Suez Canal blocking traffic coming through that canal from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. This canal saves two weeks of travel time from the East to Europe.

We all have the need of an anchor especially in this increasingly uncertain world. We can take courage from those like Esther, queen of Persia and Mordecai, who were able to stand firm and save their nation in the Persian empire.

At present the world in which we live is imperfect because of the permission of evil which enables us to understand why things are the way they are, but we know a better time is coming when the completed church begins its reign and when Satan is bound. (Rev.20)

Meanwhile we can grow closer in our relationship with our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as described by the Song of Solomon, with the church as the ‘maiden’ and our Lord as the ‘beloved’. The focus of the church in these times as much as any is to reach the measure of the fulness of Christ in a time when faith in God is overlooked and increasingly considered as old‑fashioned in places like Britain.

"For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen." (2 Cor.1:20)