Burns' News March 2006

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Proverbs 3:1

One of the biggest questions that man has to ask is about purpose. Why are we here; what is it all about; and how do I fit in the plan of eternity? We have all had these thoughts from time to time but we are not left in the dark, God has already given the answers, it just depends on whether we choose to listen or not. On such, hang life and death, in eternity that is. We often find ourselves in strange situations and feel we are not in the place where we should be, doing what God intended. We will see this for what it is if we but realise as did Solomon that God has a reason and a purpose for every situation we find ourselves in. At the time we may think our situation is just plain awful but when we place our trust in the providence of God we will be able to look back and realise that it was His plan all along and the end result will be to bring many more sons to heaven and so doing glorifying our Heavenly Father.

You might say that our past year has seen plenty of those ‘why’ questions, with unknown directions and unrequited reasons as to why we were spending so much time dealing with a patchwork of family, medical, debriefing, psychological, stress and rest situations.