“The Press rightly used is a mighty power for good, none greater; but it is too often used in the opposite direction; and then, alas! the truthfulness of the old adage is again clearly shown and seen, ‘corruptio optimi pessima’ (Corruption of the best is the worst). – William Colenso, on leaving printing behind for life as a missionary in Hawke’s Bay.”
“Bible & Treaty” by Keith Newman, page 229
In a health publication (Family Health Diary, September/October 10) I find an article called “Putting the spring back into your life”. On page two of the same publication I read “…..putting a spring back in your step…”
Please read the two sentences again without the ‘back’. “Putting the spring into your life”. “…..putting a spring in your step”.
When you give flowers to someone, you put a spring in someones step.
You bring joy into the life of that person.
I still remember the time, when the Lord Jesus Christ put a spring in my step. That was many, many years ago. There is peace! There is happiness. Do you know how many things are happening the moment a sinner accepts Christ? The answer is 38!
There are things in relation to God the Father, in relation to God the Son, in relation to God the Holy Spirit, in relation to sin, in relation to satan and finally in relation to others.
Read also what the Lord Jesus Christ says in John 4:13,14 in His talk with a Smaritan Woman: “Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The spring the Lord Jesus Christ put in my step brought me from Germany to the other end of the world to New Zealand – and what an adventure with the Lord in between.
‘Wait for the Lord.” – Psalm 27:14
“For I resolved to know nothing
while I was with
you except Jesus Christ and
him
crucified.”
First Corinthians 2:2
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THE BLESSED MAN AND THE WICKED MAN
Psalm 1:1-6
INTR:
I. “BLESSED IS THE MAN
not
1. who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or
2. stand in the way of sinners or
3. sit in the seat of mockers.
but
4. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and
5. on his law he meditates
–day and
–night.
6. He is like a tree
a. planted by streams of water,
b. which yields its fruit in season and
c. whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
II. NOT SO THE WICKED!
1. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
2. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgement,
3. nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
END:
—For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous.
—but the way of the wicked will perish.”
I’m reading just now about a late-night talk show.
It was high rating, until……until it was decided to talk about dying.
Why is ‘death’ a taboo topic?
“Remember, a small trouble is like a pebble.
Hold it too close to your eye, and it puts everything out of focus.
Hold it at a proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and classified.
Throw it at your feet, and see it in its true setting – just one more tiny bump on the pathway.” – Barbara Johnson
I read about the “Passion at Oberammergau” in Germany in the paper not too many days ago.
But today a Kiwi couple told me, “We are just back from Oberammergau.”
Peter Atkins is writing in his article “Power and passion lift the spirit” in “travel” (August 24, 2010) how a village kept a promise made 367 years ago:
“The villagers of Oberammergau made a vow to God in 1643 to perform a play about the passion of Christ every ten years if they were spared the ravages of death through the plague. Their tiny village escaped and they have kept the promise ever since.”