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Green’ Services at St Chad’s The Green of the Bible ‘ is important in the Holy Land. With no rain between April and November, the countryside is largely brown for much of the year. In the 1980s I travelled through the dry Negev (southern Israel) and was surprised to see miles of polytunnels, rows of fruit trees, plantations of palms and prolific vineyards. The desert was becoming green. Another year I took a leisurely camel ride in the Sinai amid wind-chiselled sandstone rocks and sandy wadis. It was hot and dusty. I couldn’t wait to get to the lush, green oasis ahead beckoning us. The colour green is used in two interesting ways throughout the Bible: 1. To show the brevity of life contrasted with God’s permanence. The psalmist says, “As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field so he flourishes.” Peter writes similarly, “All men are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands for ever.” Last year I arrived in Israel in April hoping to film the countryside in a blaze of green, but I was too late. There was hardly any grass left on the hillsides. Our lives, too, are shortlived and we need to prepare for meeting our Maker while there’s time. 2. To show how to stay ‘fresh’ all year round. The secret is, of course, to have a constant water supply. The person who chooses to go God’s way and delights to please him is “like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.” Jeremiah states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord…he will be like a tree planted by the waters… Its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” When life dries up all around you, where do you get your resources from? One final thought. Creation starts in a garden with the Tree of Life and it ends in a garden where the same tree bears 12 crops of fruit, one every month – a picture of constant supply, freshness and vitality. In Scripture, heaven is called Paradise three times. It’s a Persian word meaning a walled garden. Surrounded by desert, it’s a haven of tranquility, fragrance and beauty. I wonder, are you enjoying the ‘green’ of God’s ever-fresh Kingdom now and then forever? Jeremy Thornton St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 24 email: office@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
A relaxed and friendly place for a chat Coffee morning for anyone over 50 Tuesdays 10.15 Tuesdays -11.15am, 10.15 starting -11.15am 25th April 2017 St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats No table games, no speakers, just a good cuppa and a natter! WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD For more information, contact the church office on 274 5086 St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 25 email: offi ce@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
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