What is God doing? What is Man doing? What am I doing?

Good afternoon! Those who regularly read my blog will realise that I haven't blogged in a couple of weeks. My apologies! But I am back now and the blog has started back up again.

So the reason I didn't blog last week was because I was in France. It was our 5th training week and it was a real significant time. The three questions we focused on during our trip were; What is God doing? What is Man doing? What am I doing?. So we visited many places and were really challenged to think about these questions when we meet various people and places. So that is what I am going to focus the blog on, those three questions and what I think the answers to the questions are.

I'm going to begin with the question of; What is man doing? One of the days in France was spent in Normandy and specifically at Omaha beach, one of the sites for the D-Day landings. It was such a powerful and yet slightly strange time. Walking through all the crosses marking the graves and seeing a representation of how many people died in this area was incredible. To think that 9000 soldiers died in that place not 80 years ago. It is hard to comprehend that sort of number. The really strange part of the visit to the beach was actually how calm and peaceful it was. It was almost tranquil. The picture I saw of that beach is a horrible polar opposite to what it would have been like that day when the allied forces landed on the same beach. The really scary thought that I tried to prevent myself from thinking was actually the sand I was walking on is the place where thousands of young men were brutally killed all in the act of war. Man has made a mess of things, he has killed he fellow human being, not just in World War 2 but in modern day conflict, and Man is continuing to try and make the best out of a bad situation. Whether we think about War or just all the troubles in our own lives, we can see that we are broken and we need God to come heal the pain of the past.

So that leads us to the next question; What is God doing? I think the answer to that question is that we will never fully know! We may see and hear some of what God is doing but we will never understand the mystery of His will and purpose. However, what I do know is that God is a God who shows Love and Grace and He is a God that transforms. During the last part of  our trip we visited Caen, now again Caen throughout History was a place that has been ravaged by war and as we stood up at the top of Caen castle looking out onto this war torn city, we could now see peace. People were living their everyday lives, businesses thriving and churches standing tall. This is what God is doing, not just in Caen but in other places and in the lives of people. He has the power to transform and none more so can we see this through the stories of His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus was there to transform the lives of people He came into contact with, blind men were able to see again, Lepers were healed, the possessed became free and the condemned were pardoned. My God is a God of transformation and I believe, whether we can see it or not, this is what He is doing.

Now what am I doing? I need to be that agent of transformation. I need to be that person to show the Love of God to all people. That's what I must do. Scripture says "The Harvest is plentiful but the workers are few...". That's what I need to do, show Love and Grace to all people and allow God to transform the lives of people I come into contact with.

I hope you have a good week this week. Feel free to get in touch.

God Bless.

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