“Your Attention Please!!!” That’s how I saw a home advertised in The Northern Age – Property Xpress, June 3, 2010 on page 18 and I tell you, I was immediately attentive. Please notice also the three exclamation marks! Four bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and two garages. Beautiful pictures showing the property of course and you should read the description. It started like this:  “The first to discover all the benefits this ‘just listed’ home has to offer will buy it and……”

And I hope you are also immediately attentive when I call out to you now: “YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!”

You probably have noticed that lots of information about the home above is given – but nothing is said about the architect and the builder.

Let me draw your attention to a home where the architect and builder is God! You will agree, once we know who the architect is and who the builder is, we don’t really need to say more about the place.  “For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”  – Hebrews 11:10

You will probably get excited about that building and cry out, “I want to go there!

But who is going there?

Not everybody enters heaven!

As we are, we cannot enter into heaven. We must be born again. The Lord Jesus Christ said to Nicodemus, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” – John 3:3

But how do we get there?

Certainly not by doing good works.

The Bible, the Word of the Living God says, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.” – Ephesians 2:8,9

What a joy it was to find a portion of  the BIBLE in the local paper, THE NORTHERN ADVOCATE  ( Thursday, June 3, 2010)

Almost in the middle of page 2 I read in big letters

“THOUGHT FOR THE DAY”

“What the Bible says about being a friend:

We urge you, our brothers,

— to warn the idle,

— encourage the timid,

— help the weak,

— be patient with everyone.

— See that no one pays back wrong for wrong,

— but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and

— to all people.”

First Thessalonians 5:14-15

“I ADORE THE PLENITUDE OF THE SCRIPTURES,

in which every letter is a word,

and every word is a verse,

and every verse is a chapter,

and every chapter is a book,

and every book is a Bible;

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in which every twig is a branch,

and every branch is a tree,

and every tree a forest,

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in which every drop is  a rivulet,

and every rivulet a river,

and every river a bay,

and every bay an ocean,

and every ocean all waters.” –

Tertullian

“Whoso is armed with the text, the same is a right worker, and my best advice and counsel is, that we draw water out of the True Fountain, that is, diligently to read the Bible. He is learned that is well grounded in the Bible, for one text and sentence out of it is of far more esteem and value than many writings and glosses, which neither are strong, sound, nor armour of proof .” –

Martin Luther

“Christianity:  entrance fee – nothing: annual subscription – everything.” –

Daily Readings from the Works of Martyn Lloyd-Jones page 154.

“GOD ALWAYS ANSWERS OUR PRAYERS BY GIVING US WHAT WE ASK,  OR, WHAT WE WOULD HAVE REQUESTED IF WE COULD SEE AS HE SEES!”

This is the last paragraph from the outstanding devotional I read in the JUNE 2010 Prayer Bulletin of the United Maori  Mission. You should read it!

What do you believe?

“I believe in myself and in the fact that our life is what  we make it. If we want something very much then this is what will happen.” – Sylwia Gruchala

“I believe in the Lord Jesus!” – Werner Dekarski