Friday, April 12, 2019

On solid ground we stand

Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born. From everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:1-2
If ever I had a perception of the magnitude of God's existence it has been in two specific places. One place was in the desert of  South Australia where I stood on ground so ancient. It was ground that had been forest long before it became a sea and long before it became a desert. I stood there on blackened soil mounds that were petrified stones of ancient tree trunks  embedded with fossilised  sea shells  and was overwhelmed with the time span between when God created them and me standing on them in 2011 and yet I felt  a great closeness to God. The second experience was when I stood  at the corner of the Dolorosa in the narrow streets of the old city of Jerusalem. Standing on the same stone streets that Jesus had walked on as he drew closer and closer to the cross and his crucifixion. We can draw great comfort from knowing that God has always been and always will be. What a mighty God to surrender ourselves to!
Grace and peace from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Anne, servant of the Lord.
Ancient forest in the desert showing brown petrified tree stumps.