A student at a Bible College was interviewed and asked, “What is your motivation to graduate from this College?” Answer,” What is written on a banner in our Chapel: ‘ON FIRE FOR THE KING WITH A PASSION FOR THE LOST.'”
Daily Archives: March 16, 2008
Northland/New Zealand
Can we write our own rules?
They want us to imagine our retirement. They want us to imagine the freedom. They want to help us plan our future. They have experts planning for us. They have expert advice. They want us to ensure our financial freedom. They want us to follow our own rules. They do not want us playing by anyone else’ s rules when we are retired.
Who? The Investment Advisors.
But can we write our own rules? No! Why not? Because we are dependent beings.
There was a prayer meeting
One man prayed,”Lord, I am standing on your promises!” But there was also a man in the meeting who owned the shoe shop in town and he was probably fed up with people who did not pay their bills. And he prayed,” No, Lord, that man is not standing on the promises of God. He is standing in shoes he has not paid for.”
What a message!
MONEY, money, MONEY, money….
I am looking at a picture in a popular magazine: An old man is sitting on a chair with his laptop. He looks to me worn out and tired. That is nothing spectacular, a man sitting on a chair. But the chair is not standing on the floor, but on top of a lot of piled up 50 cents pieces. What a picture, I am thinking to myself. But as I continue to flick through pages of the magazine, because it is a long article, and there, what is that? I see even a better picture: A bent over old man with a hat is standing on top of a lot of piled up 100 Dollar notes. He seems to have something wrong with his knee. It looks as if he is nursing it.
What a foundation! What a shaky foundation. That is what I am thinking.
In church we sing beautiful hymns. The hymn: “Standing, standing, standing on the promises of God my Savior; standing, standing, I am standing on the promises of God,” is one of them. The author and composer of this hymn is Russell Kelso Carter.
One of the promises in the Bible, the WORD OF GOD, is First Corinthians 3:11. Please click on the verse and read it.