Communicating with God and others..

Last Friday, I visited Bletchley Park, an insightful experience; the once top-secret home of the World War Two codebreakers, learning how incredible minds and through persistence, the Government Code and Cypher School team managed to devise ways to decrypt secret communications - significantly influential in the war efforts.

As I walked around the grounds reflecting on what I'd seen and heard, it made me reflect on my relationship with God, do I keep his love secret?, use language, jargon, words that are not easily understood when preaching to others that makes it hard for my message to be understood and wonder if my words today will make you reflect too...?

God doesn't use a separate language to communicate with us, or keep us away from his love by sending us messages we have to de-cypher in order to have a relationship with him. Ok, yes, there are things that we will never truly understand or comprehend as we have our own human limitations and need to place our trust and lean on God to show us the way and reveal his plans for us over time.

But do we always try and come close to God?, or do we sometimes fail and make it hard for God to reveal himself in our lives?; do we give up too easily?, trying to work things out for ourselves, focussing on the negatives as opposed to joys, putting up our own barriers or make it complicated to come near him or give God our time.

There was a job advertisement poster at Bletchley which detailed the type of person that he GCCS were looking for at the time, and the questions included: can you keep a secret and are you willing to drop everything to serve...

I am sure that God doesn't want us ourselves to keep secrets about his love for us, all people and all living things, but to share.. God would also want us to share his love through our own testimonies and actions that demonstrate in very simple ways, through kindness, patience, compassion, hospitality, a listening ear, our wisdom and experience and joy that we know is the extent of his love, a love that knows no bounds, that you don't need a theological, or mathematician's brain to receive.

Are we today ready to just open our lives to him, listen to his voice, keep things simple and be willing to serve.

© Stephen Allen 27 Jan 2024