When I picked up the paper today I read:
GOLD COAST HOLIDAY ESCAPES
Gold Coast Short Breaks/ Gold Coast Getaways/ Gold Coast Family Fun
Add on Gold Coast Experience
I was thinking straight away: You cannot escape and get away from a guilty conscience! It goes with you wherever you go.
The more we are letting go, the more the Lord can give us.
But it is difficult to let go!
When we came back from Thailand at the end of 1979 we had so much stuff that we had to transport some of our belongings by boat in a 40 gallon drum. When the drum arrived at the Auckland harbour I was notified to pick the drum up.
When the custom official took everything out of the drum he came to a Nordmende Radio from Germany. When he demanded tax for the radio I said,” One thing is for sure, I am not paying tax for that radio. I have used the radio many many years in Thailand and it is partly broken, FM does not work any more.”
But he was adament and wanted tax for it. Then I told him blandly,” I am not going to pay tax for that old and broken radio. You can have it or you can throw it here into the water. You have my permission to do so.”
When he saw that I was serious he handed the radio over without me paying anything for it.
Are we willing to let go?
wd
While studying at Bible College I had trouble understanding one portion of Scripture in the New Testament, to be exact James 2:14-26. May be you want to read the verses now. Please click on the address!
I even went to talk to the principal in the office– but I did not get the point. Even Martin Luther, the German reformer, had trouble understanding the book of James.
He found it difficult to harmonize James with Paul. Justification by Faith alone and Faith without works is dead.
But what the reformers said helped me greatly:
FAITH ALONE SAVES, BUT NOT THE FAITH WHICH IS ALONE!
Read this today: It’s lonely at the top, but you do eat better.
I am doing two ON LINE Bible Courses at the moment.
The weather is just right for doing studies like that!
wd
