With Easter coming up, my church is filled with an anticipation in preparation for the most awesome reason of life; the resurrection of Jesus! It's like a strange tingle in the air that won't disappear, no matter what. Many of the members in the congegration are physically unwell, but that won't stop us from praising and rejoicing in the Lord!
One passage keeps playing on my mind lately; Phillipians 2.12 - 18: "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed - not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence - continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life - in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labour for nothing. But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. So you too should be glad and rejoice with me."
I'm reading a book by Matt Redman and Louie Giglio called 'Indescribable' and it's all about the stars and the universe. Reading it makes me feel so tiny, so insignificant, but it also makes me realise how great God is. Surely, if my God is so great that He created all of the universe, then He must also have that power to change my tiny tiny tiny life?


I'm beginning to learn how to be that shining star, just like the stars that shine in pulsating praise to the One who created them for just that purpose, so I want to be a living sacrifice to the One who brought me into existence. I'm realising how much my words, my thoughts, my unspoken attitudes, can affect others. Each one of us was created to be a shining star, to let God's light shine through us and into the darkness.
I sit here writing this, and cannot cease from being amazed at the depth, a depth I cannot even begin to comprehend, of the love that caused our Creator to take the effort to create a universe so vast and beautiful as the one we live in, and yet He still had the time to turn around and save us from ourselves!
How could our hearts not sing with joy at that?!