麻豆约拍

Good morning.

I sometimes think that for people of past generations there was a certain amount of stability about their lives. This was not always a good thing, for one thing the poor stayed poor. Nowadays, it can seem there is no certainty in anything, no stability in life. For many Western countries the financial crisis has seen Governments fall and nations teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, in the Middle East long years of oppression at the hands of a few saw leaders deposed and others wobbling precariously.

If you think about it, never before have people had so much. At the same time never before have so many people turned away from a sense of God in their lives. Many people seem afraid to die not because of any sense of having to face God and judgement, they fear letting go of things that sustained them in this life, things that will not sustain them in the next.

No matter how much we have we will never have everything we want and what we do have on Earth will not last forever; on this day in 1981 Hosni Mubarak became President of Egypt and for years must have thought his position was secure but he was wrong. Be it by聽uprising or at the ballot box or be it by the voice of God, earthly power will come to an end.

Father,聽 remind us that pride of man and earthly glory will pass away but remind us too, that you are a rock standing firm in the midst of all the changes and chances of life. Amen