Chaplains Chat

There are many things in life that we remember clearly, and indeed for some of these, we remember them fondly. I will always remember the family holidays as a young boy that we had as we travelled down the south coast after Christmas each year. The backyard cricket and afternoons at the beach with family and friends remain a wonderful memory. Of course, there are perhaps other events in life which we would actually like to forget, and indeed there are many events that, in the passing of time, we seem to forget very quickly! I suspect we are good at remembering those positive and very happy times of years gone by.  

In Chapel this Term, we are looking at the second book of the Bible called Exodus. God’s people, the Israelites, are in slavery in Egypt and under the brutal rule of the Pharaoh. However, in these difficult and extreme circumstances, we read that the people cried out to God and ‘God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob’ (Exodus 2:24). God is the God who not only makes promises (and a covenant with his people), but he faithfully and reliably keeps them. One of the great promises of God was to grant his people a land, and in the Exodus story, God demonstrates his power and faithfulness in keeping this promise. Of course, as we journey through life with all of its joys and difficult times, the Bible reminds us that God is a constant, and all of his promises ultimately point to Jesus. Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promises and is the demonstration that we can trust in Him with our lives in all of our circumstances.  

Rev. Anthony Benn 
Chaplain