Nov 16 2009
Pastor’s notes
We didn’t have a Newsletter this week because of the special service with Sing Australia at the High School. And what a great service that was, it was so good to have so many voices and to meet so many new people. During the service I used a flashlight and a mirror to show how Jesus is the Light of the world and how He can at the same time say that WE are the light of the world. He is the flashlight (so to speak) which shines in our heart and we need to reflect that Light to the world (like a mirror). If our back is to Jesus, we will not reflect the Light. And we need to angle ourselves in such a way that His Light reflects from us to others. While I was telling the story, I was shining the flashlight into the mirror and moving the reflection across the congregation. I had no particular focus but one lady came to me afterwards to say that when the light flashed into her eyes she felt that God was looking at her. She had lapsed from faith and felt far from God for many years but now felt renewed and had now committed herself to a journey of rediscovering her walk with the Lord. The Lord surely works in mysterious ways!
There is a very real lesson for us. In life we will cross paths with many people, sometimes just for a fleeting moment and we must make the best use of those moments to let the Light of Christ reflect from us to them. That doesn’t necessarily mean the overwhelming push of the Gospel, most often it is just being the Christ Light in that situation, with a hand of care and a voice of love. Use every moment that you have, develop a lifestyle of being a mirror for Jesus to shine His light into people’s lives.
At Moorditj Mia we had a lovely service led by Val Tengval. Before the service I had helped a very confused lady to a seat and helped her to settle in, then at the start of the service, one of the gentlemen asked Val to come over to him – “what’s this all about,” he asked. Val told him that it was a church service. “But I’m a heathen,” he responded. Val was very gentle with him and the service continued. The last hymn was “Jesus loves me.” I looked across at the room and here was my confused old lady with her eyes suddenly lit up from the darkness, singing with all her heart. Here was our “heathen” singing a song of faith remembered from his childhood, and singing as if this was his new creed – Jesus loves me!!! My heart just choked up inside of me and I had to fight back the tears. God is truly amazing.
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