Ain’t no mountain high enough…

Last week two of the young people who regularly attend our Sunday evening Bible Study group did a sponsored walk up the Glyders in the Snowdonia mountain range. This was all in aid of raising money for one of the young people who, come September, will be heading off to Youth for Christ‘s national office for a year’s internship. They will be working in the media department of Youth for Christ.

We are so pleased to see a young person that has been a faithful and regular member of the Llandudno Youth for Christ family going on to serve God and continue to grow in their relationship with Him.

I’ve not only mentioned mountains in the title because of the sponsored walk up the Glyders, but because last night at Redefine we continued our Bible Study on our identity, this time looking at what God thinks about us and how our identity is all wrapped up in His opinion of us.

We looked at Psalm 139 – “I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything you do is marvellously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly you know me, Lord! You even formed every bone in my body when you created me in the secret place, carefully, skillfully shaping me from nothing to something. You saw who you created me to be before I became me! Before I’d ever seen the light of day, the number of days you planned for me were already recorded in your book.” and saw how God painstakingly made us, knit us together in our mother’s womb.

We also looked at the epistle to the Ephesians where the Apostle Paul writes “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” – Eph 2:10. Another translation says that we are God’s masterpiece. We discussed how God to time and care in making us. There was a lot of love involved in how He put us together.

On the back of this study we then wrote in permanent marker pens the words that we would use to describe who we are in God onto a T-shirt. It was a fun and profound exercise and the young people got really stuck in, putting down words such as ‘amazing‘, ‘loved‘, ‘worthwhile‘, ‘forgiven‘ and ‘chosen‘ amongst others.

The song lyric excerpt used in the title to this blog post is from a song by Marvin Gaye and it is a love song between and man and a woman where he is saying that many different obstacles, such as mountains and rivers will not keep him away from her. But in God’s love, we have something even more secure and powerful and there is nothing that can separate us from the love of the God who carefully created us. “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Rom 8:38-39.

I hope this encourages you.

Be Blessed!