Monthly Archives: March 2008

Personal Evangelism

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I am sitting on the bench in front of the Warehouse in Kaitaia drinking from my water bottle. It is a hot afternoon. After a short while an elderly Maori lady is joining me on the bench. We have never met before.

But after talking about the weather and the Easter decorations in the Warehouse, we are talking about the real meaning of Easter.

And believe it or not. She is also a believer in the Lord and knows the workers belonging to the UMM. (United Maori Mission) We used to be workers with UMM in Kaikohe.

And one of her brothers is a preacher of the Gospel. I know him. So far as I remember he used to be the guest speaker some years ago at an Easter Camp of the United Maori Mission.

Can we write our own rules?

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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

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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….

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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.

NORTHLAND/ NZ

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The hymn “How great thou art” comes to my mind and I am quoting verse one:

” O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds Thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy pow’r thruout the universe displayed!”

Original text was written by a Swedish pastor, Carl Boberg, in 1886.