Last weekend my wife Emma and I visited the family country manor home of the famous Sir Winston Churchill, said to be: The British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. Jeff: Herbert G. Nicholas.
When Mr Winston Churchill died I was 4 year's old, so It was a privilege to step back in time and literally walk in the footsteps of a man said to be of iron constitution, who said: “We shall never surrender”.
What a magnificent mansion Sir Winston Churchill and his
family lived in, and his life is just as interesting.
His great mansion was a money pit, and most of his life He
apparently struggled with his finances, and I just read: Winston Churchill’s finances were a shambles for most of his life. It
was a state of affairs, as David Lough reveals in No More Champagne: Churchill
and His Money, entirely of Churchill’s own making. Reff: Why Winston Churchill Was So Bad With Money.
The British prime minister could handle the Blitz but not his bills.
However, thank God, despite his difficult life, Sir Winston
Churchill proved to be the man to defeat Adolf Hitler and alter history and helped
to win World War Two.
It’s a great day out when visiting Winston's house within his
1000’s of acres.
As Churchill suffered from depression he resulted to
creating over 500 paintings of which most can be seen in his home.
Winston pantings.
It is said he apparently wrote over 11,000,000 words, and I
wonder if one of the 11,000,000 words was GOD?
With his intelligence, did he ever think of God and write
anything about his faith?
He has over 4000 books and I couldn't help wondering if he
had a single Bible in his massive collection.
I couldn’t see anything in his home saying he had any faith
in God, which I thought was strange. So when I returned, I started doing some
research, to then be thrilled by discovering he often referenced God or
scriptures from the Bible.
As I searched more, I discovered more, that Winston's great
grandson Jonathan Sandys wrote a book: GOD & CHURCHILL, about the faith of
Britain’s wartime prime minister.
How encouraging knowing Winston Churchill did not neglect
God and his unique purpose in life, but read the Bible and believed God
directed his course which made history by helping save Great Britain.
The moral of this story is how many of us will die in our
sins without seeking God. Most never give a thought about the meaning of life,
and why we are here, but believe we were born by accident, called a big bang,
as evolutionist say, who correctly believe there was nothing, yet madly believe
nothing managed to create, think, and work out everything from nothing, and
insanely teach nothing was capable of building what the best scientists still
cannot do today, who cannot create anything like a flea or fly, but continue to
believe nothing created our highly sophisticated complex DNA, without a single
intelligent designer whatsoever.
What's the point of this life, if we have not thought about
the very person who gave us life in the beginning? Were we born to die?
Without doubt, assuredly, there must be a reason for living.
It is only by believing in God we discover that purpose and explanation for life and living.
Most don’t understand it's only because of God we are
something, and without God we are nothing, if we are with God we will be everything.
Every day millions are passing away, how much longer will it
be before its you or me.
What's worse you or me, or seeing our family and friends
dying all around us, breaking our hearts with precious memories.
If we only believe in God, who cannot lie, yet so many
refuse to hear His calling through His Son, who promises to raise us the same
day we pass anyway.
Jesus said to her, “I am the
resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he
live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.
John 11:25,26.
God promises us a new and perfect life where there will be no more
crying or pain, dying or killing, but most refuse to trust and believe in Him, or believe He does not exist in anyway.
Even if we own the whole world, what’s the point, if we’ve
neglected God’s calling, we have forsaken our own soul, as billions have
already done, and are still doing today.
Is it worth gambling with our own soul? We could be here
today and gone tomorrow and discarded our own soul. Instead believe in Christ as the
thief on the cross who heard Jesus say: today you will
be with me in paradise.
As St Paul said: So we are always of
good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from
the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and
we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we
are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due
for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. 2 Corinthians
6-10.
It's so sad to see so many who will waste their life away by
seeking material things.
There's still good news, it's not to late.
Be one of FEW, and seek the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness and discover God through His Son Jesus, and receive the treasure
that will last forever.
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or
father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a
hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Matthew 19:29.
I will end this article with an interesting article on the
Bible Gateway Blog, about the faith of Winston Churchill.
What is the vision for this book?
Wallace Henley: Proverbs 21:1 says, “The king’s heart is
like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He
wishes.” Our vision is that people will see through the example of Winston
Churchill how God directs the course of history, and that leaders and people
everywhere will learn the lessons, take hope, and trust in God.
What was Churchill’s view of “divine destiny” for himself
and his country?
Jonathan Sandys: He firmly believed in it and was not
bashful on the several times he spoke of it. We begin God & Churchill with
one of the most unlikely and impossible declarations Churchill ever made: “This
country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion…and I shall save
London and England from disaster.”
Alone and separated from the context of the entire story,
Churchill’s statement in 1891 to fellow Harrovian Murland de Grasse Evans must
have appeared very arrogant. However, almost 50-years later Britain went to war
and Churchill was called upon to lead us through the crisis. Five years after
his appointment we celebrated an impossible victory, and by popular demand,
Great-Grandpapa was hailed as the person who saved “London and England from
disaster.”
Churchill believed in ‘divine destiny’ and that’s why in
1940, though severely outnumbered, like the Israelites in the book of
Deuteronomy facing the overwhelmingly strong armies across the Jordon, he
stepped forward and accepted the responsibility of leadership, while others,
equally ambitious, refused the honor due to their lack of faith in the
possibility of a general victory.
How did Churchill view the Bible?
Jonathan Sandys: Great-Grandpapa’s essay, Moses, provides
evidence that supports our belief that Churchill saw the Bible as the literal
truth: “We believe that the most scientific view, the most up-to-date view and
rationalistic conception, will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the
Bible story literally, and in identifying one of the greatest of human beings
with the most decisive leap forward ever discernible in the human story.” And:
“We may be sure that all these things happened just as they are set out
according to Holy Writ.”
What surprised you
the most about Churchill’s spirituality?
Wallace Henley: First, that he took the Bible so seriously,
and was such an avid student of it. Second, that Churchill linked
history/culture to the biblical worldview to the extent “Christian
civilization” and its preservation was almost an obsession. Third, the way God
removed the child Churchill from the influence of his wayward parents and
brought him under the primary influence of his nanny, Elizabeth Everest, who
molded young Winston with biblical foundations.
What did Churchill
believe about Jesus Christ and the church?
Jonathan Sandys: He believed and confessed that Jesus was
‘the Christ.’ In our book, we quote Churchill’s toast at the christening of his
grandson Winston: to “Christ’s new faithful soldier and servant.” In a private
conversation with Montgomery, Churchill declared that ‘Christ’s story was
unequalled and his death to save sinners unsurpassed.’
Wallace Henley: Critics claim that Churchill did not focus
on Jesus. Again, this reflects a secularist agenda. Churchill believed in Jesus
Christ as the Savior of the world.
Churchill, though not a regular churchgoer, was not
anti-church. In fact, he believed it should be supported and encouraged, and
said of himself that though he was not a “pillar” of the church, he was a
“flying buttress.” Mary Soames, his youngest child, wrote of growing up with
Churchill as a father. She speaks of frequent church attendance on her part.
Full article here: https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2015/10/god-churchill-an-interview-with-jonathan-sandys-and-wallace-henley/
Video, Jonathan Sandys book: GOD & CHURCHILL, about the faith
of Britain’s wartime prime minister.
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