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As I sit in our warm and dry home, listening to the rain that is drenching the dry and thirsty Cape earth, I am filled with a deep gratitude. I have so much to be thoroughly and utterly grateful for. Living in a country like South Africa, it is not difficult at all to find real reasons for this gratitude. Being dry and keeping dry is one example but there are honestly hundreds of other life experiences juxtapose my privileged with those of others.
However, this morning I am not talking or thinking about that kind of gratitude. No, this far more, far deeper and reaches far into eternity.
This is the deep and satisfying, certain thankfulness for Jesus Christ.
Because of his work completed for me on the cross and his sure and certain resurrection . I have a real hope and a steadfast future..... with him.
When I first became a Christian in my early 20 s, I read books and filled in the gaps around the historical evidence for the resurrection. Then, when that was settled, I pressed on in this journey with Jesus as my Lord and saviour.
Last night we went to watch A Case for Christ as a family. I guess none of us was quite sure what to expect. What we did not expect was to encounter Christ again, as he walked off the screen as the young journalist investigates and pulls apart the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The one key truth that everything hinges on. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then, our faith is futile. . Indeed it is.
We had an excellent evening and all the while I was praying for people who see it and of course for our sons.
I would encourage anyone who would like to discover the historical evidence of the resurrection to start here. It is an excellent and capturing movie filled with excellent questions and profound answers.
What did we make of it as a family. Well, one of the best things about God is that he knows us intimately and so he deals with us in just the right way.... the way we need.
And so it is with our 4 boys. I had this profound sense of peace and a reminder that God is busy with them, each according to their need and in His perfect time.
So, for our youngest, he had some of his questions answered. Questions he had never ever voiced but had none the less. He is 11 years old and he loved it.
Our 13 year old said, yes Now I have some great answers for my friend who keeps asking questions.
The two older teens had touched with these ideas already and so it was a solidifying and a reminder.
We all came out with our faith built up and questions answered. It was a faith building experience.
As for me, I wept through it , I loved it and I am so grateful for Jesus who not only died and rose again but was kind enough to leave enough evidence for the inquiring mind to find him.
Indeed
We had an excellent evening and all the while I was praying for people who see it and of course for our sons.
I would encourage anyone who would like to discover the historical evidence of the resurrection to start here. It is an excellent and capturing movie filled with excellent questions and profound answers.
What did we make of it as a family. Well, one of the best things about God is that he knows us intimately and so he deals with us in just the right way.... the way we need.
And so it is with our 4 boys. I had this profound sense of peace and a reminder that God is busy with them, each according to their need and in His perfect time.
So, for our youngest, he had some of his questions answered. Questions he had never ever voiced but had none the less. He is 11 years old and he loved it.
Our 13 year old said, yes Now I have some great answers for my friend who keeps asking questions.
The two older teens had touched with these ideas already and so it was a solidifying and a reminder.
We all came out with our faith built up and questions answered. It was a faith building experience.
As for me, I wept through it , I loved it and I am so grateful for Jesus who not only died and rose again but was kind enough to leave enough evidence for the inquiring mind to find him.
Indeed
