Be Still And Know

John 1:16-17 'From God’s abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another.For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.' People have very different understandings of God. Some see him as being a strict disciplinarian, like a divine policeman. They picture him wielding a truncheon and looking for an opportunity to use it. Others see him as a nice old man on a cloud with a flowing beard. He’s basically very kind but completely cut off from normal life. And then there is the picture of God that we find in John’s Gospel, in which we meet someone who is unfailingly generous and involved in every part of our daily life. His principal desire is that we should thrive, and he is looking for every possible way of blessing us. That’s what he did long ago when he gave the law to Moses, then later when he sent Jesus into the world. And that’s still his agenda today in the 21st Century. If you head into today with a conviction that God is gen