Daily <span style="font-size: 0.875rem; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Scripture</span>Isaiah 30.5‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength’Daily Reflection These words were originally addressed by Isaiah to the Israelites, who were sandwiched between two antagonists, Egypt and Assyria. In an attempt to find safety they kept forming alliances with first one power and then the other, according to which looked more likely to be victorious. Predictably, this did not bring about the desired peace.Isaiah’s words are about faith. Stop stressing and dithering, he says. Put your trust in the God who has always protected you and provided for you.We all have a tendency to rush about in a frenzied search for solutions to our problems. Isaiah is not suggesting that we should sit around passively and do nothing, but that by spending quiet time with God and trusting in him we shall find both the confidence and the strength to do what is needed. Revd Rosemary
Weekly news and services for the Benefice of Benenden & Sandhurst, Kent.Sunday Services: Sunday 18th October8 am Holy Communion at at St George's led by Vicki Young & Revd David Commander10am Holy Communion at St Nicholas led by Vicki Young & Revd David Commander
Daily Scripture'For you yourself created my inmost parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I thank you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are your works, my soul knows well.' (Psalm 139:12 & 13)Daily Reflection Psalm 139 is a beautiful psalm thanking God for who He is. Acknowledging that He is our creator….that He is YOUR creator. Acknowledging that He knows us, and He cares for us. (He knows when we sit and when we rise.) Acknowledging that He is always there with us – whatever we are going through. “Where can I go from your spirit?” the psalmist asks. Nowhere; He is always with us. The psalmist recognises just how incredible life is – and that God did it: “I thank you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” YOU are wonderfully made; what God has done in creating YOU is awesome! Thank God today. Please look out your Bible, read and pray the whole of this psalm today for yourself.Revd David
