I, rather we have made it to married life, the relations have all left after the wedding,  my new amazing wife has left for work, I'm left  here just catching up on things. It also has given me time to reflect on the past 6 months.

I was reading this morning in Exodus 37 about Bazalel building the furniture for the tabernacle and the thought struck me how God had everything planed to the smallest degree nothing was left to chance nothing left to artistic licence. Bazalel had to follow the master’s plan directly.

I think forward to another major event in the world where God had things planned to the tiniest degree- the life and death of His son. His Son followed His Father's plan perfectly as did those around whether they were aware or not. God wasn't sitting or pacing backwards and forwards wondering if His redemption plan would work or not, no He had it sorted. His amazing salvation plan unfolded before Him even as He turned from our sins placed on His Son He knew the outcome as did His Son, the Joy!

Fast forward another 2000 odd years he is still not taken by surprise, even when 6 months ago I seen my future wife on Facebook and we started to chat and chat and chat, He knew what He was doing with us, he knew that 6 months down the line we would be getting married on a wee farm in the middle of Florida on a beautiful warm sunny day. We may have been franticly trying to get everything sorted for the big day, praying it wouldn't rain or be too hot, but as  with our God we needn't have worried as He had it all sorted. 

It’s with this confidence; I pray we go into our married life together, knowing that He is before us making our way straight. As we stumble and fumble through married life we like Christ have an amazing Joy set before us but of course we don’t often see it so easily, it gets fogged by our selfish ambition and desires! I pray that the 2 of us would see Christ rather that our own desires.

Thank you my Father for bringing me to here in a place I never thought I would be, I pray I can trust you for the rest of our lives together.

What’s new in Florida?

Almost 2 month has gone by, Christmas and the New Year have left us behind for another year, MOST people have taken their decorations down and in less than 10 days the Lord is allowing me to be married to one of his daughters, a very special one I might add.  Dar Gail is truly a special gift of Grace Form God, as are her family the Lord is blessing me with 2 amazing families to support us as we move into our new life together.

This New Year I have decided to change my study pattern a wee bit and attempt to read the bible in a year, I usually give up after the first few months but I would really like to finish this. As I have been reading (I have been reading Genesis, Exodus and Acts) I have observed that these books very much books of beginnings.  Genesis being the beginning of the world and universe, Abraham and Gods chosen people, Exodus is a new beginning in Gods Promised Land and Acts is the beginning of the Church as we know.

 For us we are having a new beginning too with our up and coming marriage, to say we are nervous about this would be wrong, we are confident that this beginning is what the Lord has for us. Although we don’t go with our eyes closed and like the children of Israel and the new church there may be some teething problems but I pray that we continue to keep God and his grace in focus rather than focusing on what would be a negative problem.  Rather than being like Israel who when a problem came up they looked back to Egypt and there old way of life. As I said we hope to look to our future with Christ and put on heaven coloured glasses.  

As I am writing this I think about all the marriages that go on every day, in many parts of the world people get married but don’t even realise what bond they are making, some may never know as they don’t have the word of God in there language so they cant know that marriage was something inishated by God in the beginning, that it was God who gave adam, eve. Marriage and all involved in that has been given to us by God and we as believers have the privilege of knowing this but what about those who don’t, they have no reason to stay together apart from an earthly bond. With God word it speaks of Gods ideal for married life, which is not really the worlds thinking . Pray for new churches and those who don’t have Gods word that soon they will receive it and therefore have a better understanding of Gods plan for marriage.

Praise Him for his Gift of Grace to me of my future wife Dar Gail.

Please pray for us as we go forward with our new life together.

As we work all the final details out with our wedding

How we will work out our visas for each other’s country

Praise God that He has provided work for me, lots of opportunity to volunteer in various places.

Praise that God has provided a wonderful new family for me to be part of.