Teach Me Your Ways
I’ve recently come back from Oxford. A bit of a change from sunny Walsall, and although I enjoyed it there, surprisingly, I’m quite glad to be back. Walsall’s gritty reality, where people couldn’t care less about their nicotine stained teeth, makes a refreshing change from Oxfords thin veneer of contentedness and unending cycle of keeping up with the Jones’.I was attending Kings Bible College and Training Centre, which was truly awesome. I guess I’m only mentioning this because it forms such a huge part of my life experience. A lot of the things that I’ve learned about my God and the bible have become the lens through which I view life, more than ever before, so I’ll probably be mentioning it a lot. In some respects it is only a one year theology course but then it’s so much more. Because of the small amount of people on the course you become extraordinarily close friends with them. I feel like many of those people are closer than family to me now. Every day, God turns up and speaks to people and heals people both physically and emotionally. You, and the people you live with over that year, change, literally from week to week, as God forms their lives and uses the people around them to do it; what a privilege! For me, God has used the year to reveal much about my character, my flaws and my attributes, which has been a bittersweet process that I wouldn’t change for the world. All through the year the phrase that kept repeating itself within my heart was “Teach me your ways, so that I may walk in your truth”. It’s a phrase that is repeated often in the Psalms (Psalm 25, 27 and 84 to mention but a few) and it just kept jumping out of the page at me time and again resounding in my mind.
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It’s clear that God was speaking it into my life and it’s become the liturgy for my life. I know I’ll still be praying it on the day that I die.KBC uncovered an emotional and artistic side to me that I hadn’t properly recognised before. I hope some of the product of that will end up here as I work through some of the thoughts and revelations that have formed me over the last amazing year.
The photo was taken and edited by me near the beggining of the year. The quote is from Psalm 84v11 but the composition allows the verse to be read as your mind sees fit. It hung on my wall and became a photograph that explained just how i felt, praying that verse and really meaning it. Knowing that God was answering every day. Straightforward but absolutely uncertain. Beautiful but dangerous.
Ps. All the photo's that appear on this blog are available as high quality prints in a variety of sizes. Just drop me an e-mail and i'll send you the details.
posted by Matt Heaton @ 5:40 pm
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