Medway Methodist Circuit

One Church-One People

March

March 2010

There seems to have been a number of problems and concerns amongst our Church family recently. Some known to all; others known only to a few and possibly others only known to one other person, apart from God. At such times, various questions rear their heads and the simple words ‘Why’ , ’How’, ‘Why now’ come into mind.

I am reminded of the true story about a father and his daughter who went climbing in this country.

They were doing very well. They were roped together and Jane’s father was further up the rocks than what she was. She was fixed on a ledge with a sheer drop below. Suddenly she cried out to her Dad as she froze saying ’I cannot move. I am fixed’ and she became absolutely terrified. How was she going to get to the top? She was certain that she could not go down the rock face.

Her father was a very experienced rock climber and he was up above her and in fact, was holding Jane secure. ‘Hold me really tight, Dad’, she pleaded , and he did. With all his strength, he managed to help her get off the ledge and continue to climb to the top. Jane, whilst doing this, was trusting her father much more than trusting herself. She made the impossible climb, roped to her father.

And for me, faith is a bit like that rope being fastened to God, our Father for He holds us secure in every and any circumstance that befalls us. Abba Father.

Is it too free a translation to simply say when various problems present themselves to us and we wonder how we will cope, we will get through by simply remembering ‘Please Dad, hold me tight’.

Remembering again that verse which simply says, ’There is nothing this day that you God (my Father) and I cannot handle together.

Brian Davies

Office Address:

Medway Methodist Circuit Office

100 Third Avenue

Gillingham

Kent

ME7 2LU