Tonight’s family service asked the unusual question ‘Are you a wall or a windmill?’ Mark gave us different kinds of windmills to ponder:
… as well as different kinds of walls:
Windmills are affected by the wind, with wind turbines needing surprisingly little wind to make the blades go around. Walls can protect and provide shelter; they can be used to keep things out or keep things in! The key thing for us to ponder, however, is our response to the wind of God’s Spirit.
Is 43:18-21 talks of the new things that God wants to do and the way (road) He will make in the wilderness and the rivers He will make in the deserts. Such things can only happen when God performs the miraculous, but our response to God moving can be varied. When the wind of God’s Spirit blows, will we be prepared to be flexible so that our ‘sails’ can go round or will be inflexible and unyielding like a wall? Are we a spiritual windmill or a wind-jamming wall?
We also had a birthday to celebrate:
