God is such a powerful and amazing person. Who can know the full length and breadth of his love! As I was listening to ‘Ascend the Hill’ today, I was reminded just how far God has brought me. I do not have a radical testimony of becoming a Christian, since I was brought up with Christian values. Yet, I must admit that in my life God had to bring me through a process of genuine repentance of sin. Nevertheless that’s off the point.

So, God is so amazing, not only was I brought up in a Christian family, which in itself is a rarity in extremely catholic country like Poland, but he also took me, a simple Polish boy who was just an average kid in his class, who had barely any friends and brought him about 2000 miles to Manchester, having known no English and having had no friends, he not only provided for me new friends but also allowed me to learn a new language, he saved me, baptized me with his Spirit and has not left me ever since. He has been patient with me. Now I am studying Classics and Ancient history at Manchester University, which is world-renowned. Don’t get me wrong I am not trying to show off; if I stayed in Poland my life would look completely different, I am unsure whether I would survive as a Christian, go to uni or even move out of my tiny city. God is truly gracious; my life is completely transformed because of him.

I’m telling you this story because I hope that it would get you to think of what God does in our lives and how we should not belittle any change he does. The places to which God has taken me this year, since I started uni are way further than I have imagined, although I am not amazingly mature as a Christian, I have learned more and more about the nature of his grace.  Although we do not always see what God does in our lives, be sure of this he is still working in us.

Just think to yourself and ask God, how far have you brought me? Thank him for saving you and for taking care of you.

Today my friend and flatmate Jack told me a riddle:

I have a friend called bob; he likes dogs but does not like cats, likes cars but does not like motorbikes. Can you guess why he does not like them?

Then for my part I had to keep in asking questions of which objects he likes or does not like. For about half an hour I tried to guess the riddle, analysing every answer that was yes or no.  My other friend Jack (believe me the names get confusing at our flat) also got the answer before me. This made me more stressed and in turn obsessed with solving the riddle. Finally, after much labouring in counting vowels, constants etc. I got the answer and it was so simple, that I became quite annoyed at not getting it in the first place.

Yet, as I was walking into Uni this morning, I was pondering how these things could be applied to our lives and spiritual walks with God. Often we try to make sure that we are not doing anything wrong and try to analyse everything as though it had some deeper meaning. But quite simply sometimes we just have to believe what he says about us. He loves us and his grace covers us, so why analyse the wrong things that we do, why should we try to work out everything to be perfect in our lives? Lets just trust him, the cross was never meant for the good but for people like us who never get things perfect, and by the way, he calls us perfect (2 Cor. 5:17)

P.S. If you want to know the answer:

It was the letter T. Bob does not like any word with a letter T in it. :D