It was a joy yesterday to zoom into Malawi as we looked at the first chapters of Romans. Internet inside the church building was temperamental, so things went outside under the trees... in God's beautiful creation.
Over coming days the pastors will be both relying on and relaying what God says in His word to others, those being mentored, and their churches. Pray for them with us. Romans 1 reminds us that we try to suppress the knowledge and glory of God. However like the law of buoyancy in science ... this is an impossible thing to do. We all learned the law of buoyancy in the bath as children. It says that if we suppress a ball in water (whether at the bottom of a bath, a bucket or at the bottom of the ocean) the ball will always rise / bounce up to the top. It's an unchangeable reality, a law of life under God.
Psalm 19 reminds us that the heavens declare the glory of God. Whether we look at the night sky in in Malawi, Milton Keynes or Milwaukee, the God of the cosmos reminds us of His glory, the order of His care, the rhythm of his sustaining hand. His voice that spoke us and all things into being, speaks His presence and love, loud and clear around the whole world. Look up at the orchestrated majesty of the stars this evening... and consider yourself before such a God who invented, elevated, and sustains such things with a word. What is man that God would be mindful of us ?
Creation declares God. Eternity in the hearts of mankind (Ecc 3:11) declares that we have a desire to set to our home in God. A cosmological, spiritual "sat nav" has been placed in every human being. Above all the cross of Christ displays the glory and righteousness of God... welcoming us home in the undeserved gift of Christ, His perfection and His love. Put all these things together with the great truth that Christ has gifted us not only His righteousness by faith, but also His Spirit to be bold in a broken world, and we have confidence to be witnesses of Him. The power of the gospel transforms. There is good news that this world must hear. The only answer to our world is Christ. In Him is our confidence. Pray for confidence in our Malawian friends... that they will declare the truth of Romans, this gospel of undeserved righteousness in Christ to those around them, in the power of The Spirit. May many in Malawi see Christ in His living word through our friends.
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
ROMANS 1:16
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