I love the thrill that I feel when I get together with God’s wonderful people…
Howdy. I really enjoy being able to share God’s word with you. Thanks for allowing me in your lives. I pray that the nougats of God’s word and the reflections are worth your time. God bless you for joining me.
Here’s today’s nougat
From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshippers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering. Zephaniah 3.10
I remember clearly being at Shiloh Baptist Church in Jamaica and wondering whether Christianity or even God’s word was truly available to people like me. And one Sunday the Lord confirmed it with Isaiah 11.11 where the islands of the sea was mentioned. As a non- Jew, I was In the Bible!
This verse would have made me even more ecstatic for it speaks to women and in a positive light. This gives legitimacy to the forgotten and dispersed (aka those in diaspora) to worship in spirit and truth.
But there’s more to the passage than gender and race (FYI; Ethiopia was often referred to as Cush). There is the core issue of our returning to God and bringing our offering to the Lord, our Maker.
What offering might we give today, that is worthy enough for one such as our God? Treasure? Talents? Time? I know God values all three; but for many of us, this text is reminding us to spend some alone time with God.
What an offering! The gift of our time.
Let’s make it count.
In Christ’s love and grace . . .
