Lynda's Blog

  I attended a Women’s Fellowship at my church this morning. There were pictures on the tables, and we were asked to choose one that resonated with us and explain what it represented. I chose one that showed pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on a background of leaves. To me, the puzzle pieces represented all the pieces of my life, the pain, the hurts, the disappointments, the difficulties, and the joys. God takes each of these pieces and makes a beautiful picture showing the whole. Only God can take the harsh times and make something good and beautiful out of them. If you are going through difficulties right now, lean on God. He will use them to build your faith and bring a wonderful testimony out of it all.

  I was disappointed recently to hear of a new Christian who was slagged publicly by other ‘Christian’ women because of her past. Christians are supposed to love and support each other. I can’t help but wonder if these women are baby Christians too, even if they have been going to church for a long time. Paul says it well in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 when he said that the members of the church in Corinth were not yet ready for spiritual meat. He gave them spiritual milk because they were still worldly with jealousy and quarrelling. I wonder what Jesus would say to these women, if the new Christian lost her salvation because of them? I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes!   ‘Do not judge, or you too will be judged.  2  For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3  “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  4  ...

  Today I sat with my elderly friend who is also dying of cancer. She is another wonderful testimony of God’s grace. She was diagnosed in June last year and since then has daily felt God’s presence and unfathomable peace. She told me that every morning since the diagnosis she has prayed submission and acceptance to God’s will and every day she experiences the peace and the freedom that only comes from God. She doesn’t know how many days or weeks she has left. She is on regular morphine and sleeps a lot, but when awake speaks often of God’s faithfulness. We had a wonderful conversation about spiritual matters; she can’t wait to be in her Saviours arms. She has a beautiful large painting of Jesus on her wall behind her bed, positioned so that she can see it in her mirror. A friend painted it. It is one of the most beautiful paintings I have seen of Jesus. In it, He is looking down and to the side smiling and His face radiates joy. She had an image while in hospital of herself and Jes...

  My younger friend with cancer died two days ago. I am still in a state of shock as it happened so quickly. The chemo made him so ill that he decided it wasn’t worth being so sick to extend his life for a brief time. So, he spent his last few days at home with people who loved him; his wife and four children, his parents, and others. According to his wife’s Facebook post, they sang worship songs, prayed together, laughed together, and took walks down memory lane. He was young to be called home, but full of faith and peace. His family will grieve but are strong in faith and the hope of Heaven. It is not the end for this young man, but the beginning. I love this quote: ‘Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone up higher, that is all; gone out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal, a body that death cannot touch, that sin...