We live in a time of massive change and where previous certainties are questioned and the foundations of yesteryear are undermined. Do you realize that this is happening all around us?

Some are unaware of the consequences when strong and stable standards of morality and ethics are removed.

The signs and guidelines that we are used to are no longer the bright and protective lights that they once were in our societies and communities and even in our families.

An extremely powerful and influential man lived at that time and was told to stand at the crossroads and look. He was encouraged to ask and seek the ancient ways. These paths had proven to be a good way of life and this prophet was striving to get people to come back and walk these safe paths because he knew they would find rest in every area of ​​life.

These rebellious and foolish people did not want to walk in these ways and if you want to check all this, you will find it near the beginning of the book of Jeremiah.

We are not the first generation to choose rebellion and disobedience.

There may be times when these truths can be so comforting and it may also be in these times of true darkness that Jesus Christ will use us to shine brighter.

It is certainly necessary in so many nations and situations and families throughout a world where there is so much suffering and sadness and all kinds of pain.

How many yearn for rest and peace in 2014? There is so much confusion, turmoil, restlessness and destruction everywhere! No wonder people seek rest and peace and only Jesus Christ can give real rest and real peace.

Many are perplexed these days. Recently, in Scotland, decisions have been made that are puzzling.

Part of what some people consider the church has been trying to make an alliance with the humanists.

Can you imagine Peter or Paul making a pact with the persecutors of the disciples of Jesus Christ, or suggesting that there be some compromise with the philosophers of Athens?

Within hours of being baptized in the Holy Spirit by the risen and ascended Jesus, and seeing 3,000 people come to faith in Jesus Christ, and being involved in healing a forty-year-old cripple, Peter and John were jailed in a Jerusalem jail. .

When Paul arrived in Corinth, he arrived battered and bruised, having faced opposition at Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, and Athens.

What was going on in the world never brought these men down, and it certainly didn’t silence them. Why? How could they continue?

They had the risen Jesus with them, and the power of the Holy Spirit anointing them.

The Lamb of God was and is immortal and unstoppable.

Paul wrote of his very real troubles as light and momentary, like a morning mist over the Moray Firth, soon to be gone. We live by the beautiful waters of the Moray Firth, but you can apply this to any lake or stretch of water you’re familiar with.

When Paul writes about the challenges facing the Church, every personal pronoun he uses is in the plural. I wasn’t alone. We’re in this together.

We are not isolated, unless one decides to be, the only Christian on our street, the only believer in our family circle.

We could almost miss this truth, like gold fish in water. You don’t know about the water, or notice the water, until it is no longer there.

This is not complicated, complex, or deep. We are in this spiritual war together.