This is the Sunrise and Sunset for Friday, June 20, 2008

Sunrise 7:31 am Sunset 5:17 pm

That makes it daylight 9 hours and 46 minutes.

THE LONGEST DAY IS IN DECEMBER. –(22. 12)

(Money or Souls?)

Jeremiah 22:29 was written on the last Christian banner I remember seeing. We had a Tent Mission in the north of Germany run by the Brethren Church.

JEREMIAH 22:29 O LAND, LAND, LAND, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD!

That was about 40 years ago!

Since then I have come only across banners put up by businesses like the Warehouse and McDonald’s advertising their goods.

What  is on our minds?

Money or the winning of Souls?

Banners are working for the Warehouse and McDonald’s. They are also working for you and for me and the Churches.

The Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 16:26. (Click on the address!)

The cost of the banner seen on the right is $ 900.

” Grace is God’s attitude to sinners by which He does for them what they do not deserve and in them what they cannot achieve.”

When looking at my computer screen I can see the Auckland weather. I am especially interested in the forecast. Today is Sunday and it is raining. On top of that it is almost the shortest day of the year. It is also raining coming Monday and on Tuesday.

But Wednesday shows a big SUN. Even to see the sun on the screen cheers me up tremendeously. I think we all like the sun.

But there is a time coming when we don’t need the sun any more.

We read about that time at the end of the Bible, in the book of Revelation. Revelation 21:23 says,” The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the lamb is its lamp.”

Are we looking forward to that time?

Read also Revelation 22:5

An article in the local paper– The Northland Age-12. 06. 08–caught my eye and is going around in my head. The article is called, “Moerewa–WE are the solution.”

I was especially interested in the word solution. But are we the solution? Please read on.

At the end of the article a Moerewa (The name of a place) man is mentioned who “had been to meetings where he had said the solution began with families and each had to look after their own, but now he didn’t have the faintest idea if there was a solution.”

The same man “did not expect the battle against drugs to be won, but added that if one soul was saved then a great deal of work had been done.” (I think he means a soul saved from drugs).

What a hopeless situation when we start with us, our families.

Our families must start with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our soluition.

Not too long ago I went to a meeting listening to a man who was addicted to all kinds of drugs. He has also a beautiful singing voice and travels the world to tell people how the Lord saved him and delivered him from drugs. I have actually met him before a number of years ago.

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No more potholes filled with water when it is raining. No more mud. No more dust in summer. Only concrete and the driveway is even beautiful to look at. I also would like to drive on it. I watched them making the driveway opposite our house and it is quite a procedure.

A good number of people and visitors are benefiting from the new driveway. They are having now a good foundation for their feet and cars.

Almost all of us see the necessity to have a good driveway, a good foundation to get to our houses. I hope we also see that it is absolutely necessary to have the right spiritual foundation to reach our heavenly dwelling. Please read the verse in the Bible where it talks about the real and only foundation. First Corinthians 3:11

Several families have contributed to pay for the new driveway. But when it comes to our spiritual foundation is it absolutely FREE. All we have to do is Believe!

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That’s what I read this morning, when I opened an email. “FOLLOW THE LEADER.” It was written in very big letters. What an encouragement.

We read a lot about leadership. Even the motto of a local car dealership and automotive workshop goes like this, “Choice! We lead, others follow.” The motto is written over the entrance door of one of the workshops, on car wheels and on a big stand in front of the main shop entrance.

Who is our leader?

The email mentioned at the beginning was actually an encouragement to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. It is good to encourage each other again and again.

In John 10:27 the Lord Jesus Christ says:

“My sheep listen to my voice.

I know them,

and they follow me.”

Are you a sheep of the Lord?

Are you distressed?  Jeremiah 16:19

Intr. O Lord,

A. my strength

B. my fortress,

C. my refuge

end: in time of distress,…