No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him - the random for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough…

Psalm 49:7-8

The ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough. And yet, there was one man who was able to pay the ransom for ALL OF US. Jesus.

If the cost of one life is costly, think about the cost of the lives of all God’s children, us, and be amazed by his love and your value to him, that he would want to pay the ransom for you.

A Christian Plain Jane x

 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

                 Love never fails.

                                               1 Corinthians 13:4-8

This passage has become so familiar to us. We hear it at nearly every wedding we go to, and every sermon or talk on the topic of “love” . From this we often think, “this is how a relationship, with love, should be! Patient with one another, Kind to eachother, not bragging to eachother…” and on we go. But I think that’s not all we can get from this.

              Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this isn’t a good reminder of how people should act in love, to their girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives, or even our neighbours, but I feel that this also gives an AMAZING picture of our heavenly Father.

                                                            God is Love. 1 John 4:16

If we take this verse as truth, that is a basic statement, easily understood.

                                                                  God = Love

I was talking to my house mates, about this a while ago, and one of them linked these 2 verses so simply, I had never noticed it before and I was very nearly over whelmed by this reminder to me of what our great God is like. Some of you may have thought of, or been told this before, but I propse we look at it, whether for the first time or not, like this, as a reminder.

God is patient, God is kind. He does not envy, he does not boast, he is not proud. He does not dishonor others, he is not self-seeking, he is not easily angered, he keeps no record of wrongs. God does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  He always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

                 God never fails.

A Christian Plain Jane x

What’s the worse thing that happened to you today? Bad hair day? Missed the bus? Had a fight with someone? Didn’t get to have the lunch you were hoping for?

Somewhere in the world today, people have been forced to do horrible, unspeakable things, been attacked, been hurt and mutilated, traffiked, gone hungry, and many have died. 

Your day doesn’t seem so bad now does it?

This last week I’ve just been thinking about caring, and hypes. In our world I really do think people find it difficult, or maybe even awkward, to care. Even thinking back to RAG week, which I know I’ve now mentioned like 3 times in posts, but I feel as though this was a perfect example. This was a chance for people to care and give to those who needed their help, but that’s not what they cared about, their focus was, ahem, somewhere else. 

But what really prompted me to think about how we care is the KONY 2012 campaign. I’m gonna put it out there that I am behind it in terms of the fact that he is a horrid war lord who caused an unbelievable amount of pain and suffering, and that he should be captured to pay the time for what he’s done, and to stop him from doing anything like it again. But the day after that video was released, there were amazing amounts of people sharing it on facebook, twitter, tumblr, and anywhere else they could. And I’m sure at the time they were shocked and appalled at what they heard. But of the 79,277,982 who have watched that in the past 10 days, I wonder how many will actually DO something about it. How many of them will actively care? I dont doubt that people wont do something, but only a portion. 

Similarly, Human Traffiking. In 2006, Stop the Traffik was a campaign to attempt to stop human traffiking. It was a big thing for a while. But soon after, I’m sad to say, it was kind of forgotten about. This is the kind of thing where if people could actively care about these things, history could be made and changes could happen.

But sadly, as one of the characters in “Hotel Rwanda” said, (which I’ve never forgotten) “ I think if people see this footage, they’ll say Oh, my God, that’s horrible. And then they’ll go on eating their dinners.” 

This quote, I feel, DEFINES our culture. We’ll care, and say that’s terrible, someone should do something about that. And get on with OUR lives. Unfortunately we aren’t able to actively care.

I pray that more people will actively care about the problems of this world and do something about these things.

Jesus tells us to do this; “Take care of my sheep.” (John 21:16)

A Christian Plain Jane x