It’s been a big Sunday morning & we’re all ready for a
quiet movie. Well, Mum is & I know
the kids never put up a fight to a bit of screen time!! After the ritual of a passionate debate, a
well-watched movie is chosen again: ‘Inside Out’. In the process, something that struck me this
time was my 4 year olds response to my 2 year olds cry of ‘no not that movie, it has the scary
clown bit’. He said that ‘because we
know the ending and that they’re all ok, we don’t need to be scared’. This advice seemed to convince my 2 year old
that it was a good idea to watch the movie. I loved the logic: knowing the end (of the movie) changes how we experience emotions (fear) in the present. How true is this for the way we trust Gods
promises of the end, changing how we experience the present - not with fear of what is coming, but praise of what has / will be…
1 Peter 1:3-4
Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance
that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
In the words of 1
Thessalonians ‘let us encourage one another about these things’ (1 Thes 4:18).
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