Hope For Today

If you would like to listen to this devotional, please click  here Dear Friends, The Holy Spirit is God's Translator I struggled when it came to learning a foreign language at school. I just couldn't get to grips with it. When we had listening tests the words seemed to be spoken so quickly and run into each other that I just couldn't understand. (I guess those who don't speak English probably have the same difficulties with our language!) I also had a lot of difficulties when it came to translating a written piece into English. How much easier it would have been if I had had someone sitting next to me who was fluent in the language and could translate for me so that I could understand. Do you ever feel that way when it comes to reading the Bible? You read a passage but you just don't understand what you're reading. That it might as well be written in another language for all the sense you are able to make of it. Well, in a sense, the Bible has

If you would like to listen to this devotional, please click  here Dear Friends, Homesick for Heaven I've been feeling homesick for heaven.  Is it even possible to be homesick for a place you've never been? Yes, I think it is. I think perhaps that is what Solomon is referring to in Ecclesiastes 3:11 when he says God " has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end." (NLT) I also think it's what Paul meant when he wrote the following words to the Philippian believers " I’m torn between two desires: I long to go and be with Christ, which would be far better for me.   24  But for your sakes, it is better that I continue to live." Philippians 1:23-24 (NLT) There are various reasons as to why I'm feeling this way right now. My husband and I were recently at Spring Harvest (a Family Bible Week). We were so