If you had told me this time last year that I would be looking forward to a holiday in Russia later this year, I would not have believed you. At that point I had no passport and had never been abroad!! It is amazing how life unfolds. With my Saviour beside me anything can happen. Each day I say, "Your will be done." Then I wait to see what will happen. I can trust Jesus to give me what is best. That best sometimes feels wonderful, but sometimes that best can feel uncomfortable. But I know I can trust Him. The uncomfortable things are just as important in bringing us closer to our Lord. Just as a soldier has to go on assault courses to bring him to the peak of fitness, so the christian needs to be trained and made fit to do the master's will. In the past I have had to suffer depression but now there appears to be an exciting adventure ahead.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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