Thought for November 2026
This month there is what is loosely termed ‘Bonfire night’. The day we celebrate the foiling of Guy Fawkes and his cronies in the gunpowder plot.
Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason why the Gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!
We still burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes (rather gross don’t you think?) and set off fireworks to celebrate. That’s not the only time we use fireworks – they are used more and more to celebrate 18th Birthdays or 21st BD’s, Weddings, Carnivals. Music festivals, New Years Eve etc. etc.
It got me thinking about life and the way we react to it.
Jesus used a parable of a sower to illustrate the different ways that people reacted to the gospel - likening them to seeds. We could do the same today using fireworks and thinking about how we fit these categories.
Are we a Catherine wheel – when we accept the spark of the gospel – do we then go round and round in ever decreasing circles getting nowhere?
Or maybe a Banger – all noise and making no lasting difference.
Or a Rocket with a sudden burst of energy reaching for the stars, then we fall to the ground defeated.
A Roman Candle – beautiful colours with sudden spurts which die out.
Or maybe we are like a damp Squibb, putting the dampeners on everything and everyone
The Bible tells us in “Corinthians 4 v 7 – 9 that we have this treasure within us to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side but not crushed; perplexed but not in despair; persecuted but not abandoned; struck down but not destroyed……….
V16 …therefore we do not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all”
So friends let us stir up the gift within us that men may see the light of Christ in our lives.
Maybe you don’t have the gift of life within you that God has provided – you can have it today – just ask Him1
Pam Roberts
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