Dapto Anglican Church

God takes great delight in showering us with His excellence: His love, His Son, His Creation, His Justice, His Mercy, His Patience and His Wisdom.

How do we respond?

Do we stive to give Him our spiritual best of just the leftovers of our life?

Galatians 5 speaks of freedom. It is primarily freedom of our conscience from the guilt of sin. It is freedom to choose God’s way and to pursue Hish standards of excellence because we want to more than anything else. A great danger to true spiritual life iss the speed we live our lives. Rushing through life leaves little time to nurture our souls.

How is your soul?

1. Does it feel alive and joyful or a bit barren and empty?
2. Are you becoming more or less responsive to God?
3. Are you becoming more or less responsive to other people?

We must ensure we don’t get so caught up in the activities of the world that we don’t prepare our souls for eternity.
Stephen Semenchuk

The immensity of the universe on a clear night sky, the glorious colurs of a sunset and the intricate design of a human being, all attest to the awesome power and creativity of our God. But they don’t demonstrate the extent of God’s love for people of his commitment to his world.

The full force of the statement, “God is love” is only learned through the cross of Christ. There we see the supreme demonstration of the love of God towards sinners like us. “God shoes his love for us in this while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

Sometimes we may be reluctant to talk about the cross in individual and personal terms. The cross in not just a demonstration of the love of God in general, it is about His love for each one of us specifically.

“God so loved me that He gave His only sone” helpfully echoes John 3:16. Perhaps the words of Charles Wesley in the hymn “And Can It Be” sum it up for each of us…

Amazing love! How can it be
That thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Stephen Semenchuk