Tonight my Bible Study group will be studying that magnificent Psalm 139. I am reminded that the Lord who created each one of us knows exactly the number of days we will live and in His love has a wonderful plan for every individual’s life. But it is up to us to commit our way to the Lord so that His plan for our lives is actually known and achieved by us. These words are part of the Psalm.
Psalm 139:13-16. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”
Little did I realise as an eight year old lad living in Gympie in Queensland that the Lord was forming another human being in the body of a woman living in Kharagpur in India who would come to Australia with her parents as a 4 year old girl and come to live in an adjacent suburb near where I then lived in Ipswich. Nor did I realise that the Lord had planned for us to meet in Christian circles, to fall deeply in love and to marry on the 22 January 1966. We both believed that God had planned for us to meet and eventually marry in His plans for both of us. His plan also involved serving the Lord in full-time ministry for over 50 years in Australia and the United States. How wonderful knowing all this was in the plan and eternal purpose of God.
Tomorrow brings the 59th anniversary of the day I proposed to Carole and she said, ”Yes!” What a marvellous memorable day that was! It set us on a path that led to great joy and satisfaction in our lives together that still fill me with gratitude to God for His blessing on our lives over all those years. Soon it will be 4 years since the Lord promoted Carole to glory and though I miss her terribly I am left with wonderful memories of our life together.
If you have a bit of romance in your soul you might like to read more of our life and ministry together in a couple of my previous blogs, numbers 364 and 417 on this site. These were also written on the anniversaries of our engagement in 1964. In addition, article number 380 has a record of how we met in the church at Booval in Qld and how our lives progressed. To His glory!
Blog No.494 posted on Monday 21 August 2023
About Jim Holbeck
Once an Industrial Chemist working for the Queensland Government but later an Anglican minister in Brisbane, Armidale and Sydney. Last position for eighteen years before retirement in 2006 was as the Leader of the Healing Ministry at St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney.
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494. MARVELLING AT THE LORD’S PLANS FOR OUR LIVES. PSALM 139
Tonight my Bible Study group will be studying that magnificent Psalm 139. I am reminded that the Lord who created each one of us knows exactly the number of days we will live and in His love has a wonderful plan for every individual’s life. But it is up to us to commit our way to the Lord so that His plan for our lives is actually known and achieved by us. These words are part of the Psalm.
Psalm 139:13-16. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”
Little did I realise as an eight year old lad living in Gympie in Queensland that the Lord was forming another human being in the body of a woman living in Kharagpur in India who would come to Australia with her parents as a 4 year old girl and come to live in an adjacent suburb near where I then lived in Ipswich. Nor did I realise that the Lord had planned for us to meet in Christian circles, to fall deeply in love and to marry on the 22 January 1966. We both believed that God had planned for us to meet and eventually marry in His plans for both of us. His plan also involved serving the Lord in full-time ministry for over 50 years in Australia and the United States. How wonderful knowing all this was in the plan and eternal purpose of God.
Tomorrow brings the 59th anniversary of the day I proposed to Carole and she said, ”Yes!” What a marvellous memorable day that was! It set us on a path that led to great joy and satisfaction in our lives together that still fill me with gratitude to God for His blessing on our lives over all those years. Soon it will be 4 years since the Lord promoted Carole to glory and though I miss her terribly I am left with wonderful memories of our life together.
If you have a bit of romance in your soul you might like to read more of our life and ministry together in a couple of my previous blogs, numbers 364 and 417 on this site. These were also written on the anniversaries of our engagement in 1964. In addition, article number 380 has a record of how we met in the church at Booval in Qld and how our lives progressed. To His glory!
Blog No.494 posted on Monday 21 August 2023
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About Jim Holbeck
Once an Industrial Chemist working for the Queensland Government but later an Anglican minister in Brisbane, Armidale and Sydney. Last position for eighteen years before retirement in 2006 was as the Leader of the Healing Ministry at St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney.