The Last Spike
Written by Rachel McQueen   
Earlier this year on our January holiday in Taupo my husband, Ewen, read a biography of a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir Joseph Ward. One of his achievements was to oversee the completion of the main trunk railway line which runs through the North Island.  There was a photo of him near Mt Ruapehu, driving the ‘last spike’ in the railway, when the railway lines from north and south were finally connected.

A few days later, we were on our way to visit friends in Raetihi and, needing a ‘pitstop’, turned into the next available rest area.  There before us was a sign ‘The Last Spike’ and we realised we had ‘accidentally’ located the very spot.   Later we discovered that our friends in Raetihi had stumbled over ‘The Last Spike’ a few days earlier on their trip from Auckland.  And when we returned to Auckland, Ewen’s brother mentioned that he and his family had taken a different route from usual north from Wellington, and discovered a spot called, you guessed it, ‘The Last Spike’!

As we asked God about the significance of this, Philippians 1: 6 struck us: “being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus”.  In the light of other things the Lord had been saying, we felt it was a word for the nation, that God had not forgotten the incredible work of revival among Maori begun through the missionaries in the early 1800s, and that He was going to both continue and complete that work.

Since then we have heard dozens of other confirmations that God is stirring up a yearning for a restoration of the revival work in the nation.  Recently, for example, esteemed children’s writer, Joy Cowley, teamed up with the Bible society to publish a children’s book about Tarore, the Maori girl who brought the gospel to her tribe.  It will be distributed free to thousands of New Zealand school children.

Another aspect of the Last Spike word came to me after talking with a Maori friend.  She pointed out that the land represented the Maori people and that the railway represented the Pakeha culture which was laid on top of it.  Just as the spike connects the railway line to the soil, so was God restoring unity between the peoples of our land.  God has given us a foretaste of this unity in the fact that the Maori party has been included in the make-up of our new Government.  Since this word, my Maori friend and I have been stirred powerfully by God to intercede for the nation together to usher in this unity.  

God loves our nation with a passion and is committed to finish the reviving, restoring work He began here 200 years ago.
 
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