BARBADIANS HAVE BEEN challenged to keep focus on the Creator as they encounter challenges in their daily lives and also ask for his blessings.
This was the message from Reverend Dr Von Watson in his sermon at St Mary’s Anglican Church on Old Year’s Night.
“Why do we want to have God’s blessings at this time . . . As we approach the end of one year to go into another we look back and recognised that we were able to overcome, we were able to make it.”
He reminded the congregants that things looked uncertain earlier in the year, but “here we stand we being able to say we have made it through these months”.
He said that, “every month there was a new uncertainty, a new worry, a new fear and in some cases, a new threat. There were challenges yet we are able to be here in God’s House and we can say to him thank you . . .” .
The priests said the people of Israel had their struggles too and that was why God had assured them of his presence.
He said God had promised to take care of them and they were not mere words.
“The reality is that we need to beg God to bless us, as he did with the people of Israel.
“To assure us tonight that our land will bear fruit and will bear fruit abundantly; that the yield from our harvest will now increase.
“And we all know that we had situations in our country when we were concerned and we are still concerned about the yields.” (JS)
