May Celebrations?

Fertility Rights!

The traditional May day celebrations around the May pole that many of us once enjoyed as children in Britain seems to have been lost today in hub-bub of religious identity?

This was a pagan festival brought into the Christian tradition marking the fertility rights of the spring season and new life! Even the Roman occupation adapted the festival and added colours to it!

We tend to forget very quickly as the seasons pass in the year the significance of Christmas and Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost as nothing more than another Christian holiday and yet Easter is the most prolific?

Since it deals with the New Life of the individual from the slave master of Satan to the servant of God!

John 5:29,   11:25,   Romans 8:11,   1 Peter 3;11.

Identity!

‘Who am I?

Most people at some point in our lives stop to think this deep question, probably when we are going through a stressful period? It is a good question to both ask and ponder upon, because it makes us think that there must be much more to being alive and why are we here?

Creation, the universe and humanity are not complex flukes that science wants us to think, it was all by chance? The fallen nature of everything leads to an end or death, but the Holy Bible tells us a different version that is far more interesting than chance and flukes!

We were created by God before everything else was made that we see and understand! In some ways science has proved that we are made of materials that cannot be seen, such as atoms!

But our condition now is a fallen one, because of sin/failure entering in to spoil Gods order! This condition we have is a terminal illness, but healing can only be found by admitting our wrong, changing our attitudes and finding the forgiveness of God through the ‘Good works of Jesus death on the stake/tree and rising from the dead!

Deuteronomy 7:6-7,   Psalm 90:2,   John 17:24,   1 Corinthians 11:9,   Ephesians 1:4,   2:10,  1 Peter 1:20.