A Real Estate Agent has this written on one advertisement, “It would be our privilege to be of service to you.”

For us it is  a privilege to SERVE the Living God. Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:1

My tour guide did very well getting me from New Lynn to Down Town Auckland and from there to Waiheke Island and back again to Down Town Auckland. The tour guide had lots of timetables in one pocket and some where even sticking out of the pocket. The thorough preparation paid off – until we arrived in Down Town Auckland again. My tour guide was not quite sure whether it would be better- quicker –  to go by train or by bus from Down Town Auckland to Nikau Street in New Lynn.

Finally things got really muddled up…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

To make a short story really short: I mentioned something about invalid, out of date timetables for the buses and trains.

And I was right, the train timetable was no longer effective. It was an old one from the year 2005. We picked up the current one at the office. On the current timetable was written “Effective 20 October 2008”. Eventually we arrived by bus at our destination Nikau Street, in New Lynn.

There in Down Town Auckland the Bible, the word of the Living God came to my mind . What happens to timetables will never happen to the Word of God. It is never out of date, and it never needs to be changed or updated. It will always be effective, always, always, always.

That is another proof that the BIBLE is the Word of the Living God.

“In every childhood, a door opens and the FUTURE comes in.”

That’s what I read in a smaller publication and I really like that. In fact I like those words very much. I have experienced them.

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Yes, that is happening to all of us. I know exactly how it happened to me and I would like to write about it. It would be a long story. Just a little bit here:

My favourite subject in school was what we called geography. At one stage in my life I knew all the names of the different countries in  South America including the names of the capitals off by heart.  – Venezuela: Caracas, Colombia: Bogota etc- I was very interested in foreign countries. I also liked to read about foreign countries. Of course, I read about the countries, because I wanted to go there….one day.

The door was opening wide!

One of the highlights in my travelling life was  cruising through the Suez Canal on my way to Thailand and arriving in Bangkok just before Christmas 1966.

We like it, when the door is opening. All of us have a joyful story to tell about the opening door.

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Romans 6:23

“FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS

DEATH,…. BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS

ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR

LORD.”

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BUT JUST AS THE DOOR

IS OPENING AUTOMATICALLY,

IT IS ALSO CLOSING

AUTOMATICALLY!

We don’t like it, when the door is closing. The story can be quite sad, when the door is closing. But we all have a story to tell about the closing of the door. You don’t want to hear my story. Do I want to hear your story?

Recently I talked to a man about the Lord and he told me that his first wife died of cancer.

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It seems that the ‘door’ turns into a real door at the end of our lives for all  of us, a door without hinges – the coffin lid.

John 10:7; Matthew 7:14,15

Are we making a living or are we making a life?

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

Our Lord Jesus Christ said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

But don’t go looking for these words in  the New Testament. You are not going to find them. Those words of our Lord Jesus Christ were passed on by word of mouth. The apostle Paul is quoting ‘It is  more blessed to give than to receive’ in Acts 20:35

I want to make a life – but what a challenge.

I know what the meaning is of  ‘down in the mouth?’ – but who can tell me where it originated?