Timing is everything.... I thought!

Hi everyone,

It's so good to be back here again... It has been way too long.  I imagine in your world, as well as mine things have changed. Before I could write this I had to update my profile as the facts were completely out of date, as well as my hair colour!

My prayer is that in the last few years your life has seen changes that you are happy about.

Grandchild No. 6 - Oliver

Since my last blog post all our children have left town and we have three more grandchildren. We have bought our home and renovated the bathroom and a painted a couple of other rooms.  Jeff has had a change in work life, and my work has morphed into something of a different shape.

I had not planned to pick this up again until another project was finished.  I have been studying for a Diploma for way too long and decided that I would ignore Desert Rain until that was finished later this year.

 How neat.

I hope you enjoy this pictures of our bathroom reno!

But our sense of timing and God's are not necessarily the same. I have been invited to accept some opportunities which have required me to update my online presence.  So here I am.

As we are on the tail end of the Easter weekend allow me to share something that occurred to me.  Jesus Christ is called the Lion and the Lamb.  These are such opposites that it seems contradictory.  How can He be both?

Isaiah 53:7  "He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth."

Jesus stood before His accusers and refused to defend Himself.  He remained silent in the face of the false accusations they hurled at Him.  He didn't fight back when they beat and tortured Him.  In this way He truly was the Lamb, The Sacrificial Lamb that took the judgement for our sin.

Yet in this He was never the victim.  He remained in charge of the whole thing.

Three days later, in the silence of the dawn, He emerged with a roar that shook hell to its foundations.

Revelation 5:5 "....Do not weep.  Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, .... has prevailed..."

Up until that resurrection dawn, 'death' was the final word for every single person that has ever walked this planet.  But now, He had prevailed over it and ushered in a new day of hope where the new final word is Resurrection Life.

He is indeed both the Lion and the Lamb.  He fought and won - for us.  I trust that you are able to receive this gift of His victory over sin and death in your own life.

Happy Easter!
Lynda