God's grace is sufficient !

Hello again and welcome to Blog No. 2

Yesterday I was at an internet marketing seminar in London at the Olympia Conference Centre.

There were several hundred people there all with one avowed aim and that is to change their lives and indeed that of their families for the good. Everybody knows the power of the internet and the wonderful marketing opportunity it offers most if not all businesses. The great thing is that you do not even need a product or service of your own but can promote other people's products and services and still become rich. It is known as "affiliate marketing" for those of you who don't know ?An "affiliate" is a person who can earn a commission by promoting other people's products or services.

At lunchtime I went for a stroll and a few hundred yards from the venue was a church. Outside the church was a large photograph of a beautiful sunset. The sun shone between two trees and created a perfectly symmetrical 5 pointed star, it was just an amazing image. Above the photograph were the words, " God is working all of the time" ! Now for me as a believer that was tremendously reassuring.

Today I went to church (Faith Alive Church, Aylesbury, Bucks) and the message was about God's grace. If you don't know about this "grace" is God's unmerited favour and that is offered to any believer in His son, Jesus Christ. People who accept the notion and nature of "sin" are offered the free gift of salvation (means spending eternity in Heaven when we die) in the death and resurrection of Jesus. There is nothing we can do to "earn" our way to Heaven, God wants to give this to us as his gift. Basically God wants us to give up worrying and striving in life and enter into his "rest" meaning that whatever life throws at us He will be with us and never leave or forsake us. We will never go hungry or thirsty in God.

So how does this relate to the conference on internet marketing I attended ? Well there were people of all ages and stations in life, young, middle aged and older. For some people I felt that this really was their final hope. You could almost see the desperation in their eyes. I have met or heard of people who have tried nearly every business opportunity and self improvement/personal development product on the planet without success.

All I can say is that yes many people can and do become wealthy by the power of the internet and that is a great thing ! But, and it is a big but, do they enjoy God's "rest" I ask myself ? Knowing that you have the "grace of God" operating in your life is a wonderful thing. and you never know you may just become the next internet millionaire