Godly transactions by Ps Jim Jung

Godly transactions

I am so grateful that my Father in heaven is openly generous in His exchanges with me. The Bible is filled with promises and stories of restoration and redemption that have been written for generations to understand the nature of the Creator. He takes my brokenness and makes me whole. He restores my shattered heart with comfort and healing. The Old Testament prophet, Isaiah wrote that our God delights:

“…to comfort all who mourn, To care for the needs of all who mourn…give them bouquets of roses instead of ashes, Messages of joy instead of news of doom, a praising heart instead of a languid spirit.”(Isaiah 61:3-4 The Message Bible)

I read this incredible account some time ago about an area in Sydney that I have personally visited many times. Unimaginable to anyone who may have wanted to visit the same site in previous generations because of its dangerously polluted state. The author wrote:

“Two hundred years ago a beautiful bay in Sydney formed an estuary surrounded by inter tidal mudflats fringed with mangroves, saltmarshes and woodlands. In those early years of European settlement the mudflats were seen as an inconvenience and as early as the mid 1880’s they were drained, cleared and retaining walls were built to exclude tidal waters. This created space for agriculture and industries such as flour and fabric mills, brickworks and abattoirs.

The waste waters from these industries turned the Bay waters black and its ground leaked toxins. By 1990 it was probably one of the most toxic sites in Australia with its polluted ground water and contaminated soils – a legacy of an extensive period of time of municipal and industrial waste being dumped there. By 1992 the rubbish dump of oil, garbage, chemical and foundry waste measured 18metres high.

This site became the focus of the entire world when the Olympic Games was held in this Bay – Homebush Bay. Millions of dollars over almost a 10 year period cleaned it up but the toxins are hidden now under a metre of clay hopefully not to leach out in the future.” (Author unknown)

As I read this again, Isaiah spoke to me again afresh with the words of my Father in heaven who takes my toxic, polluted life and exchanges it for a life filled with purpose, focus and energy. His transactions are always going to be for our good.