I've moved to the Royal Cornwall Showgrounds (the venue for the festival) today, where a caravan awaited me and will be my home for the next 2 weeks :). The grounds and venues are bigger and more beautiful than what I've imagined or expected - and I can't wait until it is filled up with people - all that will hear the Good News of Jesus during their stay.
The past weekend was a good "calm before the storm" weekend. On Friday night, I finished work only at 21h in the office - it was our last day in the office - and then met up with Kristine, Cameron and Sarah for some Chinese take aways on the Launceston Castle courtyard watching the sunset. Wow - it was so beautiful. And then off course, who didn't watch the Olympic opening ceremony ;) in the host country. And there I was, still proudly South African!
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| View from Launceston Castle |
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| Sunset in Launceston |
Saturday was just peaceful. Gillian took me to Bude, a small coastal town in Cornwall. We went for a L-O-N-G walk all along the Canal, over a small hill between some corn fields to the neighbouring town, Widemouth Bay. And then back to Bude, all along the coast. It was so amazingly beautiful! These not-commercialised ("non-touristy") gems. We did walk a part of it in rain (and at parts really hard rain), but it was still all worth it - and off course, part of the experience. Sunday was just a relaxed time, filled with a good, long, personal time spent with the Lord, church, skype date and meander around the town of Launceston - ending with a good book on the lawn of the Castle. Finished the day with packing - had to pack 90% of my the things again (not that I brought a lot with me :) ).
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| A small part of the Bude Canal |
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| Beautiful view of Widemouth Bay |
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| Coastal Route from Widemouth Bay to Bude |
With all this "free time" and "alone time" - there is lots of time to read - yip, I am reading :)! One of the books I am reading is "Gems from Tozer" which are key extracts from his work. One of it has really touched me - because it is one of the "themes" that I learned since moving to Cape Town - with my key verse in 1 John 2:6 (He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked). It is around faith. Tozer said: True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God said it. Any professed faith in Christ as personal Saviour that DOES NOT bring the life under complete obedience to Christ as Lord is inadequate and must betray its victim at the last. The man that believes will obey and where real repentance is, there is obedience. There are a generation of Christians that has come up believing that it is possible to "accept" Christ without forsaking the world. To "accept Christ" is to know the meaning of the words "as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). We accept His friends as our friends, His enemies as our enemies, His ways as our ways, His rejection as our rejection, His cross as our cross, His life as our life and His future as our future.
It challenged me - good reminder to the first time I heard 1 John 2:6. How many times have I "accepted" things of the world? Made excuses for myself or those I love when we did things just because everyone around us is doing it? How many time have I comprimised? Which part of my life is not yet under complete obedience? Jesus is and should be my only example. I need to stop making excuses and gently speak up to those I love (and them towards me - keeping each other accountable). I need to walk as He did. I need to do as He did.
In the words of Tozer: "True faith requires that we believe everything God has said about Himself, but also that we believe everything He has said about us. True faith commits us to obedience."
Much love from a cold and rainy Wadebridge,
xxx
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