Custard, Yuck!!

This is the second post of today.

I am on the train once again, this time on the way back to Edinburgh, which is curious enough because when I got to Adam's place in Bathgate, we had to turn around and drive to Edinburgh to drop off Caroline Collie at here new home. I met Caroline today who is from Washington, NC. Her husband, Mark, is from South Africa and they are here on staff with the church. Caroline ia also pregnant and she will soon give birth to an African-American. Yup. The burrito of joy is due on August the 18th, which I think would be a fine day for a birth. Don't you, Mom and Dad?

So the reason for the second blog today is because I have just been floored, humbled beyond belief, and scared within inches of my life. Oh, the fear of the Lord descended on me today. And it still lingers. It's a fear that will make a county fair funnel cake eater turn away from food. it's a fear that would drive mothers to forsake their young. It's a fear that lights can't chase away. It wraps up my stomach as if it were the advent season. Churning over like cement, scared to let it lie incase it hardens and become a thing of shame.

Perseverance of the Saints

Let man be damned and the Lord glorified for he is truly a righteous God.

The perseverance of the saints deals with the doctrine that only those who preserver in Christ until the end will be saved. How sobering a thought. I will leave it to you to think of the consequences of such a doctrine.

Forgive me if I'm speaking in an extreme manner here. Just the thought of it is resting very strongly on me at the moment. What does that mean? Especially in conjunction with the doctrine of Election.

What do you think?

Ian