Good day, Black Creek Church Family,

 

This will be my last scheduled update as I am switching to our weekly summer 'Camp Bob' schedule.   

Donna and I will be at Camp Sunday afternoon to Monday evening and all day on Fridays.  My airport days will be Tuesday-Thursday.

I am still in the Sunday preaching schedule for the summer and look forward to discovering more in Exodus with you.

 

The last few weeks, I have been working my way through Jeremiah, which ends with Lamentations.

Jeremiah tried so many times to turn the leadership of the nation from self-reliance back to God.  

The Lord told him that it would be his mission... (and that they wouldn't listen).

 

The whole book is somewhat depressing... kind of like watching a show where the hero continues to make poor choices 

and predictably ends up in trouble and then wonders why 'everything is so bad'.... 

Lamentations seems to be a sum-up of the horribleness of what happens when a nation turns from God and ends up in the 'ditch'. 

 

The part of the story that keeps me going and engaged - is the sparkles  of life and hope sprinkled throughout the narrative.

 

 Like the promise that many memorize in Jeremiah 29:11  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, 

plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

12  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
13  You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your heart, 

 

 Thanks to all who helped make our church picnic an amazing time of fun and fellowship.  It was such a good day. 

 

 Pray for those in difficulty... that they might receive a 'sparkle' of hope during this season. 

 

Amid Lamentations, the writer stops his litany of real and horrible struggles to lift his eyes to the one who gives hope in trouble.

 3:21    But this I call to mind,     

and therefore I have hope:

22  The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;     

his mercies never come to an end;
23  they are new every morning;     

great is your faithfulness.
24   The LORD is my portion, says my soul,      

therefore I will hope in him.
25  The LORD is good to those who wait for him,     

to the soul who seeks him.
26  It is good that one should wait quietly     

for the salvation of the LORD.

 

In seasons of doubt, difficulty and loss

Lift your eyes.

There is a glow over the horizon, 

the new life of the Lord's provision.

Wait on the Him.

He is there

and He is good.

 

Blessings,

 

Peter Jackson

part of Your Team

Black Creek Community Church

peterj@blackcreekchurch.ca