Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

The easiest thing to do is to criticize and particularly criticizing those things we do not understand.  We will never understand or fathom the ways of God, however we will always have an opinion to give. The generation past had very little when compared to us today. However were we to analyse what they achieved in the light of what they had and the adversity they faced we would have to conclude that God was on their side. For example, my parents arrived in England in the early 60s will no recognised qualification. And although my father was a tailor in Jamaica no one would employ him as such over here. They lived in one room and shared  the facilities in the house with several other families. They were fortunate to get somewhere to live as in the vast majority of areas they tried to get rental accommodation in, had disparaging signs on their doors, reading ‘No Dogs, No Irish and No Blacks.’ This did not put them of and after four years working faithfully in a factory making tablets they were able to raise the deposit to buy  heir own home, where they lived until they returned to Jamaica 30 years later. Their ability to endure hardship like good soldiers and to overcome the trials by praising their way through it, is a testimony to their faith in a God who always comes through for those who dare to trust him. Today all of their children have or has had the opportunity to live in their own house. During the period I was growing up in my parent’s home I never heard them complain about their situation. I heard them thanking God for what he did. For as Isaiah puts it, not one of his words will return to him void, but it will accomplish whatever he sent it to do. Read Isaiah 55.