News to keep you steady and Stable

Stable...

in the English language what do we often call where God decided to make His particular arrival as the baby Jesus...Stable...

In December at the Outreach a picture of the Stable was made for the occasion

...it has a few surprises.....reminding us that this same Jesus was there when stars and Galaxies and atoms and DNA ....were made.

He Who made it all, is well able

to keep the whole thing going and make it stable,

to make it right and fix the wrong...

even though He lets us choose

He helps us recognise True Good News.

So look again with a questioning heart

at the donkey and the dark and the stink of the earth

at the miracle child in the fodder bin

and ask yourself, with the state you are in

What now ?

Stable in or unstable ?

Ask Jesus into your heart and have a Life with Peace anew at its centre, as the Holy God of the Universe is in the centre of your heart.

The One who made it all, and Who has conquered death and Hell...that is the Stable One ~ can He do it ? Can He come where there is a bit of a mess and failure as well as a lot of success...look again at the Stable ~ He surely can.

And If you want to know the words written on the picture...here they are...followed by the words of a contemporary song.

He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. Isaiah 53:2

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Jesus….. made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross!

( Philippians 2 verse 8)

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He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53:3


" Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.
This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

(Luke 2verses 1&12 )

I Will Offer Up My Life

I will offer up my life in spirit and truth

Pouring out the oil of love as my worship to You

In surrender I must give my every part

Lord receive the sacrifice of a broken heart

Chorus:Jesus, what can I give

What can I bring

To so faithful a friend

To so loving a king

Saviour, what can be said

What can be sung

As a praise of Your name

For the things You have done………….Oh my words could not tell

Not even in part

Of the debt of love that is owed

By this thankful heart

You deserve my every breath for You've paid the great cost

Giving up Your life to death, even death on a cross

You took all my shame away, there defeated my sin

Opened up the gates of Heaven, and have beckoned me in

What can I give, What can I bring, What can I sing as an offering, Lord

(What can I give What can I give to You, to You)