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Time passes

13 Saturday Dec 2025

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It’s been a while since I added any posts. I’ve had health issues over the past couple of years which have clipped my wings considerably. It has been an interesting journey. I’m glad to say, I think I’m through the worst of it.

Have just recently been checking some of my websites and found that my links to miscellaneous Amazon books were no longer working. Sigh… they changed their system at some point of time. If they let us know then I guess I missed it. I’ve just spent considerable time updating my very first website (bhojli.com). It took forever. All done now. Phew!

It got me thinking. Everything changes as time goes by, supposedly for improvement. This may be true for some things… but sometimes I wonder if the change was really necessary. Anyway, this has me thinking about what is unchanging, stable and sure in our lives. Jesus is, that’s for sure. During my months of unwellness I often felt encouragement from Jesus that he was still with me, he hadn’t changed, he still loved me and always would. It really helped. And, for this I am most thankful.

I’ve checked this website and updated links that didn’t work. Hopefully, there’s more here to encourage and stimulate you for all Jesus has for you in your life.

Blessings this Christmas. Jesus is real. He came, he lived, he died. And, he rose again! He hasn’t changed. His purposes for us are still the same… to save, to heal, to restore, to make us into the people he fully intends for us to become. Wow!

God’s good in life’s experiences

14 Wednesday Mar 2012

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“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28 NIV

What we consider wasted experiences can become experiences in wisdom – when we decide to learn from them! God in His wisdom knows that we need the challenge of certain situations to mature and stretch us.

[from a friend]

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God has plan and purpose for us

09 Friday Mar 2012

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“…I want you to enjoy success. I do not plan to harm you. I will give you hope for the years to come.” Jeremiah 29:11b NIRV

There’s an appointment on God’s calendar with your name on it. God has an appointed task for you to accomplish and appointed blessings for you to enjoy. He has called you with an “eternal purpose” and He will bring it to pass.

Isn’t that just great? What a hope!

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Longing for God

04 Sunday Sep 2011

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Some years ago I wrote a reflection on ‘longing for God’. As I read it again now I find that it’s still just as relevant for me now as then. As you read this be encouraged… God is no stranger to our unsettlednesses, our longings, our questions. In fact, rather than churning around and looking for comfort or escape in alcohol, drugs, sex, money, or whatever, God longs for us to turn to him. He alone is able to settle our unsettledness. Do allow him to do so.

Psalm 42: 1-3: “As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and stand before him? Day and night, I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?” ”

There are times when I am fully aware of my longing for God. It is so strong that my heart aches inside. At other times I have no awareness and am busy thinking and doing other things yet have felt so restless and unsettled. No matter what I put my hand to or think about in my mind it does not settle the unsettledness. What I believe is happening is that my deep longing for God is causing the unsettledness; I am dissatisfied with everything else. My deep being is crying out with longing for God. My outside being (my conscious self) is distracted with many things; some of these distractions may be my efforts to escape from my longing for God.

Then, too, there are my enemies who seems to whisper forever, “Where is this God of yours?” The demons are ever ready to throw this question at me when God seems not to be near, or seems not be hearing or paying attention.

My longing for God gets attacked by myself (the sinful self who is so full of self and does not want a competitor) or by the demons who do not want me to draw close to God in any way.

God knows this. He knows how to deliver me from the taunting demons. And, He knows how to work in my heart so my dissatisfaction deepens until I do turn to Him and am willing for Him to bring about the needed heart changes.

He has made clear in Scripture that He loves us and desires to fellowship with us. He has planted within us this deep longing for fellowship with Him, as well.

Copyright © 2003 Fran Woods

originally published at Bhojli Reflections

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