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1st of September 2011 Train journey to Dublin



“It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” -Deuteronomy31:8

This verse was given to me by a dear friend a week ago. And last night in bible study we studyied through this chapter...I love how God prepares the way for us and goes before us. It is such a blessing to recieve a message from the Lord for comfort and reassurance. His work is beautiful and so flawless.
This morning I said goodbye to my parents for a few months as I make my way back to Germany for my second semester at bible college. It is hard to leave my parents..but it is also such a blessing beacuse I see more and more how much I love them and what a pure and unconditional love they have for me. What beauty and blessings lie in the relationships we have.
Though it saddens me to leave my two best friends at home,I look up and realise that their love is still so ever present with me, their comfort, their encouragemnent, their caring smiles are with me everywhere I go...how is this so? My parents have a gift of loving and caring with such a pure love that everywhere I go, it is with me, for God is with me and so I feel their love, for the love that they show me is reminded to me as God's love and grace is poured out on me daily.
What a merciful and great God we have.

This time round this journey is easier though. Over the past month or two God has been pointing out His promises to me and how I must trust them and that He does not change, that he does not grow weary. Isaiah 40:28 says, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. Psalm 121:8 says, “The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.” He is true to His Word...His promises also remind me of what Jesus said to Peter in Matthew14:31 as Jesus immediatly stretched out His hand to help Peter when he called out to Jesus for help, Jesus said, “ O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” We have before us Gods promises that He is with us, that He has gone before us, that if we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these things will be added to us..and yet time and time again God is so good to remind me of my lack of faith and my need for more of Him and that we need not worry, we need not fret, we need not seek in the comfort of other things for He is all we really need. O I of little faith, why do I doubt.
I am very thankful today for He has given me a peace today that surpasses all understanding and with that peace comes excitment for the times that are to come. Looking out the train window at green fields as far as the eye can see, mountains in the distance and old farmhouses surrounded by cattle grazing..I will miss all that is Ireland but I know in the coming days and months their are many adventures to be had and lessons to be learned and this brings me joy.
As I take my journey to what I know is my next step in following where God has called me to and has gone before me,I smile as I recall when Jesus called His disciples, let me indulge and share it with you. While walking by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two older brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediatlely they left the boat and their father and followed him.
-Matthew4:18-22
It brings so much joy to follow Jesus when he calls us. And he is always calling us to live for Him. Is God calling you to follow Him? Whether you are like me stepping out to follow Him away from home, or if Hes asking you to call out to Him like Peter did in Matthew 14:30 to save you from whatever or wherever your at, I pray and hope that you too, like me find the strength and courage to do so in the Lord. As Isaiah41:10 says, “Fear not, for I am with you: be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

The verse I was given I now pass onto you...
“It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” -Deuteronomy31:8

May it bless you and bring you peace as it has me,
Remember to always talk to Him, He longs to hear from you.
Much love always,
Eimear

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