Thought for the Day - Thursday 5 November

Thought for the Day – Thursday 5th November ‘Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.’ (Lamentations 3: 22-23) It seems that everywhere you go now there are appearing charging points for electric cars, they are cropping up here there and everywhere and where once there used to be loads of car parking spaces now they are reducing in number due to bays being set aside for charging points. Even this morning I was surprised to find that Daldowie Crematorium has now added several charging bays to their car parks. A sign of the future where we are all being guided towards electric cars which are better for our environment and our planet. It got me thinking though – without a frequent recharge these cars can’t go very far and there needs to be constant recharging going on and readily available recharging points or the electric car just won’t work as it should. Perhaps then we are very similar to those electric cars for we need to be frequently recharging, taking time each day to recharge ‘our batteries’ and make sure we are ready for whatever the day might hold. We may even need to recharge several times in a day depending on what we are doing! Of course, we don’t plug ourselves in to the electric power to recharge ourselves – that would not be a sensible thing to do and I do not advocate such action! However, we do need to ‘plug ourselves in’ to the source of our power – God – and take time to recharge with him. Praying, reading, reflecting on his word, counting our blessings, reminding ourselves of his unfailing love and mercy for us which is indeed new every morning – as sure as the very sunrise. Time spent recharging with God is never wasted time and such is his faithfulness that he can refresh and recharge us at any time of the day or night. An added bonus for us though, unlike those electric cars, is that plugging in to our recharging point costs us nothing but time yet, the benefit will far outweigh the cost. Prayer Loving God, Great is your faithfulness to us! May we be as faithful to you. Help us to turn to you when we need to recharge ourselves and help us to remember that you are an ever-present God and so we may turn to you at any time of the day or night. Be our source of power Lord, enabling and guiding our daily living. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.