Jamberoo Anglican Church
When God Seems Far Away – Focus On Who God Is!

Regardless of circumstances & how you feel, hang on to God’s unchanging character.
Remember God is good & loving, He is all powerful, He knows everything about me. God is in control & He has a plan for me. Not to mention He has given me Jesus for my Salvation.
So don’t be troubled by trouble. Circumstances cannot change the character of God.
God is still for you even when you don’t feel it. Even when Job went through the wars & nothing made sense in his pain & troubles, he still trusted God because he knew the character of God.
We, on the other hand, know even more the character of God in the Lord Jesus.
Jesus died for you. He was crucified as a criminal. He was abused & ridiculed by heartless men. While His lifeblood drained out, hecklers stood by & shouted insults making fun of His claim to be God. Jesus reached the darkest place by being abandoned by His Father. Words cannot describe the darkness of the moment. Why did God allow this injustice?
2 Cor 5:20 We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus gave up everything so we could have everything. He became sin so we could be forgiven our sin. He died so we could live forever.
Next time we are going thought troubles, remember the character of God. He loves YOU!
He has the big picture in mind. He will always do what’s best for us despite weather we understand our situation or not!
God is good & God loves you!
Praise God & be Thankful!
Tony Galea

Life is all about love.
Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love. It is in loving each other are we most like God. Learning to love unselfishly (agape) runs counter to our self-centred nature.
Love cannot be learned in isolation. You have to be around people, especially those who are irritating, imperfect & frustrating people. Do you know people like that?
Then learn to love them!
Life without love is worthless. Love will last forever. Love will be evaluated by our love.
That love will take time with each other.
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is NOW!
Who is someone you need to Love?
Tony Galea