The Return

'I’m only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do that something I can do'. Helen Keller

Back from my travels in the UK. I'm tired and jetlagged but my spirit is changed by my journey. Absence can bring a deeper understanding of presence and what is important - namely not to worry or be anxious rather to live out today. The mistakes of the past can paralyze and as Martyn Lloyd Jones points out the Sermon on the Mount is not something for some future kingdom, namely the impossible ethic. Rather it is believing in Christ what he said and promised; it is not simply believing on Christ that he is the instrument of salvation. In my preparations for Sunday I have learned much from Lloyd Jones.

Worry is always a failure to grasp and apply our faith. Faith does not work automatically ... Never think of faith as something inside you to work automatically; you have to apply it. .. Your faith will not grow mechanically, you have to attend to it ... you have to dig round and about it, and pay attention to it. Then you will find it will grow.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Matthew 6:25