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An old woman stood surveying the Temple courts. She had seen these courts filled again and again with a suffering people: people cheated out of their pitiful salary by greedy tax collectors, people bent over by exhaustion and depression, people whose faces were marked by intense longing and groaning, people who desperately needed a saviour.Continue reading “My Eyes Have Seen Glory”

The night was dark, cold and quiet. The sound of grass rustling in the wind momentarly interrupted with the soft bleating of sheep. With the sheep sat the outcasts, men rejected by their nation as unclean and defiled. Shouldering the cold, the shepherds settled in, ready for a long, lonely night of tending their flock.Continue reading “At Last, The King”

The enemy was closing in on every side. The inner walls had been breached. Soldiers lay dying or dead all around the frantic king. Hope had faded long ago, and was close to being snuffed out completely. Victory seemed impossible as the cruel and merciless enemy advanced closer and closer. Feeling that the end wasContinue reading “Like the Breaking of Dawn”

At the beginning of every new year, I choose one area of my life that I want to grow in. It could be something like becoming more organised and neat, or learning to become more patient or kind. At the beginning of this year, my prayer was that God would help me to grow inContinue reading “Humility Hurts”

Loud, heavy sobs fill Heaven’s halls. Even standing in the presence of mighty and glorious beings, John cannot help but weep. Was there no one worthy of opening the scroll that lay in the hand of the One seated on the throne? Was there no one righteous enough, no one who had the right toContinue reading “Is He Worthy?”

It is a common feeling; you wish you could run. The feeling of your insides twisting, making you feel sick to your core. The feeling of regret and wishing you could just undo or redo the past few moments. The feeling of wanting to be anywhere but before the searching eyes of God. The feelingContinue reading “It Whispers”

Life is full of groaning. Often, it is silent groaning, but groaning none the less. We groan through hardships, when life hits just a bit too close to home. We groan as we watch death claim the lives of loved ones, as we witness savage crimes against innocent people, as we experience sorrow too deepContinue reading “Swallowed Up By Life”

Fire engulfs the city as the smoky night sky glows red. Screaming and terrified people try and escape from the flaming wrath of an angry dragon. A single man stands between the dragon and the people. Using his son’s shoulder to rest and aim the arrow, the father sets his last arrow on its target:Continue reading “The Father, The Dragon, The Arrow”