“CAN YOU IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS?”

I discovered the leaflet at the local Women’s Refuge Office here in town. It is a Literacy Aotearoa ( Choice – Change – Freedom) publication and on the front- page  the reader is asked the question:  “CAN YOU IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS?”

My answer is very simple: “No, I cannot.”

I love books, especially the Bible, the Word of the Living God. I am very much interested in the question and I am glad that I came across the pamphlet with the question: “Can you imagine a world without words?” Straight away it came to my mind, that the Bible says that the Lord Jesus Christ is THE WORD. Jesus, the Word! Proverbs 8:22-31; John 1:1; John 1:14. There are of course more verses.

I belong to those people, who take literacy for granted. I find it hard to believe, but it says in the flyer that “more than ONE MILLION  New Zealanders have difficulty with reading, writing, using numbers, speaking and communicating effectively every day of their lives.”

LITERACY AOTERAOA ( Choice – Change – Freedom ) WANTS TO CHANGE THIS.

I have also another pamphlet here advertising “Literacy Aotearoa Certificate of Adult Literacy Tutoring – LEVEL 5.”

LITERACY IS COMMUNICATING!

The leaflet says also that Literacy helps us to “be independent, get our message across, make decisions about our life, understand our culture, understand our language, increase our knowledge, be affective at work, inspire and be inspired, choose our future and change our world.”

Literacy helps us to “inspire and be inspired.” I like that. Literacy helps us to “get our message across.” I like that even better. Why? Literacy helps me to get the message of the Bible across…. to you!

No, I cannot imagine the world without the words of the Bible. No, I cannot imagine the world without JESUS!

Visit one of the local pharmacies here in  town, and you can find big posters there. On the posters we are encouraged to  spread the word. It says there in big letters, “Please help us spread the word.” It continues,  “Put up as many in Influenza posters as you can.”

It is all about “DON’T LET THE FLU GET YOU. Ask your doctor or nurse about influenza immunisation.” “INFLUENZA You’re never too fit to get it.

Big and small poster are available and more can be easily ordered.

“Please help us to spread the word” it says on the influenza posters.

As important that is, it is of uttermost importance to spread the BIBLE, the Word of the Living God.

Jesus is the WORD!

I say: PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!

John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1:14: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”