Ian Royle

It took a long time for this post to arrive, which is funny because it still feels like Friday night.  Where did my weekend go?  I have been reflecting on what I want to write in this blog; I have things I like to talk about and things I know about but very few passions.  I like building despite the fact that I am not enthusiastic about my job.  I have this belief that every day at 4:30 I quit the construction firm I work for, that’s right.  I am no longer their employee after 4:30 in the afternoon and I can’t wait until I no longer have to go there.  But I like building things, when I am building for myself or for something other than money.  I like the regiment I am part of, but despise the mechanisms by which the army functions.  I like flying so much I have a pilots license but I can’t write with any authority on the subject.  I could write about real estate as I am up to my eyeballs in it with too much skin in the business, but everyone is an authority on that subject and passions are always aflame, very few people are level headed enough to understand that on a long enough time line all markets are bull markets.  But what is surfacing time and again is that I want to talk about salvation.  I am currently going through forty days of reading a book by Jack Duncan called The Kings Invitation.  I’m on day nine.  Jack hopes it helps a person forget themselves and focus on Jesus.  At the same time I have been praying to Jesus to help me order my financial house, make me a better person and help me to learn more about him.  So I might as well spend the next thirty-one days taking you with me on that road.  You’ll learn more about me and hopefully, and more importantly about Jesus Christ, resurrected, seated at the right of God and one day to return in power and glory.  Day nine; today what has been going through my head is Genesis 15:6, “Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.”  Why I had no idea.  And then I read Jack’s passage for the day and read through Genesis about Abram’s life.  He wasn’t perfect.  He ran hot and cold.  He feared Pharoah so much he let him take his wife, but he tore after the kings who kidnapped lot.  Sometimes was obedient to God, other times he wasn’t (think Hagar).  But the thing is he did believe God, and that was enough for God.  In Jack’s book he talks about the love of God.  How God loves everyone.  So much so that He sent his only begotten son (we are created sons and daughters) that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have ever lasting life.  It wasn’t what Abram did, though he wasn’t bad, he didn’t do enough to earn God’s favour.  It was that he trusted the Lord, believed in the Lord, knew the Lord was perfect.  That was what God creditted as righteousness.  For us today it is the same.  We need only to believe that something happened in Roman occupied Israel that changed the course of humanity forever.  Believe the words of the carpenter from Galilee and know that we can’t earn his Love, we already have it.  We aren’t going to be perfect but he still embraces us with his Love.  We have nothing to offer, but He’s not asking us for anything but to trust Him.  I’m tired and my prayer for today is that this at least makes a little sense.