There's not a cloud in the sky

Life is just so beautiful - every day is just so wonderful - there is just nothing that can change the way we live and what we do - it just gets better and better as we go along.

Enjoying our life every single day with nothing to interrupt us - it is like living in fairyland every single day - laughing and joking - going out with friends and eating in restaurants, making new friends and being there, going overseas and giving lots of presents and getting presents from lots of people 

Yes! Life is perfect

Isn't it amazing when you hear others saying things like "isn't life great - everything is so wonderful"? Hmmm, makes me think - Yes, life can be great, but then on the other hand, life can be traumatic, and sometimes it can jump up and bite you unexpectedly.

The other day, our amazing son-in-law was rushed off to the hospital, yet again, and not just to our local hospital, which in itself is pretty good, but two hours down the highway to a private hospital in Sydney. He is suffering from cancer and had to have major surgery yet again.

So it just goes to show that there are often "clouds in the sky," and life can be traumatic.

Then, looking at the news we hear every day of people being attacked in their homes - brutally assaulted or even murdered - How do families cope with things like this? It is truly life-changing, and I can imagine life taking a drastic turn. When I hear of so many people overseas and here at home who are struggling to cope with so many problems, it really blows my mind.

A person just enjoying the drive, going along, and suddenly another car racing alongside and a huge collision, then disturbed gravel, deep ruts, then skid narks gouged through long grass at the side of the road. The driver is attempting to brake and regain control after their vehicle, which has left the road, as it spears towards the guardrail. But it is too late. 

The sideways force of the collision and the momentum of the sweeping left-hand curve have caused the car to flip over and clip the top of the guard rail.

Hitting the guardrail has only added to the momentum of the flipping motion of the vehicle. The car then rebounds off a tree and ends up twenty metres further down the embankment.

WOW, suddenly these horrible things happen, and can happen to any of us when we least expect it, and so many of us are affected currently and unfortunately permanently when we lose someone whom we love and adore.

So many of us are affected by car accidents, leaving the family in deep mourning or constantly at the bedside of someone extremely injured in a horrible car accident.

Sometimes it is not car accidents but horrible illnesses that can affect even little ones in our family, and all these sorts of things can affect us our entire lives.

Mathew is a flight guy - loves flying, and off he goes flying low over his rugged landscape where he lives and works. Over seemingly endless craggy hillocks and jagged ravines. He loves it, and he is all alone.

Matthew was on a mission, actually, orders from his boss - his mission was to attempt and locate missing cattle, and he was to photograph and mark such positions as he found on the map squashed on his lap.

He passes over what appears to be nomadic camel trains, and they remind him of the people recorded in the Bible all those years ago who had lived their lives oblivious to any Western influence. Matthew muses and waves down to them. The camels look so slow and awkward as they are spurred on by their riders. Matthew loves his job and really enjoys it.

Suddenly, the engine falters - misses a beat but keeps on going. "Phew," thinks Matthew - "I must head back." he turns the plane around only to once again hear the engine give a jolt and falter. He keeps going, and then the engine seems ok.

Suddenly, it stops completely - nothing - he tries to restart - nothing - it nosedives so quickly - he tries the ejector - too late.

Matthew was a great guy - he loved his job.

How often are we affected in our families when something obscure like this can change our lives in a twinkling of a second? Losing our loved ones in disastrous accidents can have huge effects on us in so many ways.

I know I lost my little twin sister when she was just 12 months old. Did my family ever get over it and put it behind them? No! We did get on with life, and we did enjoy our family get-togethers, but in the background, the loss of a family member is always with you, no matter what.

You know, years ago, Jesus gave his life for you and me - the question that remains in so many people's lives is, why did he have to do that?

The Bible is pretty plain when it explains why Jesus had to die. Way back, sin entered the world through Satan, and all of humankind has been going downhill since then - we are all doomed to die at some point in our lives.

Jesus made it pretty plain that no matter how we live our lives, we all have to give an account to God the Father but Jesus died to take the punishment for our sins, and all we have to do is, accept by faith and believe in what Jesus did by dying on the cross to abolish our sins - which in itself is pretty amazing.

If you accept Jesus as Lord of your life and fully accept his death as the sacrifice for your sins, then this is the best part. Becoming a Christian is having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ - How do you do that? It is simply through faith - ask Him to come into your life and lead you. 

If you are ready to ask Jesus to save you, that is become your Saviour, all you have to do is to believe. You have to understand that like me and everyone else in the world, you have sinned, and that means a big judgment from God the Father. 

The thing is, Jesus took our punishment when he died on that horrible cross, and he died in our place. He paid for our sins that we have already committed.

All we have to do is simply put our trust in Jesus as our Lord and saviour and fully trust in Him alone all done by faith - that is all it takes.

God bless you this week.