We are going to have only 9 hours and 46 minutes daylight.

“NUR DER KANN DURCHHALTEN, DER GEHALTEN IST.”

Peter Hahne

I am reading just now that image makers must be good at three things, namely:

— choice of shot

–print quality

— conceptual vision

GOLDEN NUGGET

Hebrews 11:3

Yesterday I read the following: “We all know that home is also where the heart is…”

Yes, that is a well known phrase. I have read it several times in the past and you have probably also. In fact, it is already twice on this blog. But I like it very much indeed!

Is your heart at home on this earth or do you belong to the company of those people of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11:1-40, who “…were longing for a better country – a heavenly one.” Hebrews 11:16 Their heart was at home in heaven.

They were “….looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” Hebrews 11:10; Second Corinthians 5:1

I am glad, that I also belong to those people of faith. I also admit, that I am an alien on this earth. I am a stranger on this earth. Hebrews 11:13

I used to live in Thailand from 1966-1979 and the thai people reminded us again and again that we were aliens and strangers in their country. They called us ‘Farang’. “Farang’ is the thai word for Westerners, for people with white skins.

I am also “longing for a better country – a heavenly one.” Hebrews 11:16 My heart is at home in heaven!

Where is your heart at HOME?

Read also Matthew 7:19-21

I was attracted again by the posters in the Paper Plus shop windows yesterday in the morning. On the posters you can read: “MY books, My stationery, My store, my booksale, my stationery choices.”

It reminded me of my devotional reading in the morning.

C.H. Spurgeon explains the verse Psalm 27:1 where we also find the word MY. The psalmist says “MY light, MY Salvation.” Psalm 27:1 reads: “The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life – of whom shall I be afraid?”

The people who wrote the psalms are rejoicing again and again about their personal relationship with God. That’s why they can say: “MY God…”

I was really glad to read this in the local paper on the front page (The Northland Age) also yesterday: ” GOOD HOPE IN KAITAIA The non-denominational, evangelical ministry focused on introducing people to a relationship with Jesus Christ , a ministry spokesperson said yesterday.”

In Psalm 18:2 David says,”… ; my God is my rock,…”

In Psalm 18:28 he says, “..; my God turns my darknss into light.”

David in Psalm 40:8 again,”I desire to do your will, O my God ;….”

And we could carry on like this for a long time.

I am also rejoicing that my God is my rock and that my God turns my darkness into light. And I also want to say with David, “I desire to do your will, O my God;…”

Dieses aus dem Buch von Wilhelm Busch: “Spuren zum Kreuz” hat mich sehr angesprochen und ich muss es Ihnen mitteilen. (Seite 120 und 121)

“Aber sind wir nicht in der gleichen Lage? Man moechte wirklich dem Herrn angehoeren. Man hat sein Elend ohne ihn erkannt, man ist erschrocken ueber sich, hat die Goetzen weggetan und ein Leben mit dem HERRN angefangen.

Und gerade dann geschieht es, dass die Hoelle ihre Pforten auftut und alle Bedrohungen auf uns loslaesst:

— Da gewinnen Versuchungen, die man laengst ueberwunden waehnte, eine neue, unheimliche Gewalt.

— Da ueberfaellt uns auf einmal ein Sorgengeist, dass man vor Noeten nicht mehr aus noch ein weiss.

— Da quaelt uns der Zweifel, ob nicht das ganze Evangelium doch eine Menschenerfindung sei.

— Da geraten viele in unbegruendete, aber abgrundtiefe Schwermut, die alle Freudigkeit laehmt.

— Da verwirren die Menschen uns und bringen uns in lauter Schwierigkeiten.

‘Da zogen die Philister herauf gegen Israel’, heisst es hier. Ja, das erleben alle, die dem Herrn angehoeren wollen, immer wieder neu.”