A New Creation

1 st Check point  We are in March already. I don’t know how this year has been for you so far but mine has been crazy. For me, this is a year of doing things I have never done before, of getting out of my closet, of enjoying the many trees in the garden of life.  I drew my theme for this year ‘out of my comfort zone’ from Genesis 3. Adam and Eve were put in a garden that was full of trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food (Gen. 2: 9). They were to freely eat from any tree in the garden apart from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Interesting to note is that the forbidden tree was placed right in the middle of the garden. Satan must have come to tempt Eve to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree when she was near it. Imagine if she was far away from the forbidden tree enjoying the fruits of the other trees in the garden. Do you think she would have eaten from the forbidden tree?  After reading the story of the fall of man, I realized how for ...

Inspiration drawn from John 21: 15 – 19.  The story is about Jesus reinstating Peter. Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him. This question came after Peter had denied Jesus three times and before Peter was crucified upside down. Thank God that he is a God of second chances.  The first chance you were given to demonstrate your love for God, you probably denied God before your friends, you probably said that God does not love you because of what he had made you go through but here is a second chance that God is giving you to demonstrate His love for Him.  It would have been easier for Peter to question God’s love for him when he was being crucified. If God really loved him, he would not have allowed such a thing to happen. It is usually easier for you and me to question God’s love for us when things are going wrong. When someone loses all his belonging and is reduced to nothing, we blame God. When a young virgin girl is raped, we wonder where God was. When peo...