Reading the article  “New garage floor so much tougher” today in the paper (Northern News , May 18, 2011, page 11) made me really glad.

Why? Because I like a good foundation. I want to know where I stand and where I walk. I don’t like to stand on shaky ground and I don’t like to walk in the mud.  Do you?

There is also an image. On the image you can see part of the garage floor and underneath the picture is written: “STRONGER: Garage flooring never looked this good – durable polyurea resins brought to you by Flexico.” On the same page where the article is is also a Flexico advertisement. There it says:  “Ultra tough, UV resistant coatings for indoors and out in a range of colours and finishes.”

Do I need to tell you that we also need a spiritual foundation? I don’t think so. Spiritually we need to know where we stand and where we walk. We read about our spiritual foundation in the Bible, the Word of the Living God. Our foundation is the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other foundation. Listen to what it says in First Corinthians 3:11

“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid which is Jesus Christ.”

There is the  song of  Moses recorded in the Bible and Moses does not only sing that the LORD is the Rock, but he says also that his works are perfect, that all his ways are just, that he is faithful, that he does no wrong, that he is upright and just.

Hannah, the Hannah in the Bible prays “…; there is no Rock like our God.” David in the Bible says in his Song of  Praise: “Exalted be God, the Rock, my Savior!”

Read also what David says in Psalm 18:21; Psalm 28:1; Psalm 62:2 and Psalm 94:22!

“For good or ill, your conversation is your adsvertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let people look into your mind.” – Bruce Barton

Colossians 4:6

“Let your conversation

1. be always full of grace,

2. seasoned with salt,

so that you may know how to answer everyone.”

Jane Hamilton says:

“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else , read all that you can.”

I spent my childhood in a little village called Karschau in the north of Germany only a stone throw away from the water (Schlei).  The nearest school was in Faulueck, about a mile away. The school had a small library and I must have read all the books of that library, at least all the books that told the stories about far away places. Why did I read all those books about foreign countries? I wanted to go there one of these days in the near or far future.

And that’s exactly what I did . I still remember leaving Marseille in France for Bangkok in Thailand by boat. That was towards the end of 1966 and I just slipped through the Suez Canal before the canal was closed. I arrived in Thailand before Christmas that year and worked in Thailand as a missionary for the next thirteen years.

Some time before I left Germany for Thailand I was given a book about Thailand by one of our neighbours.  Unfortunately I don’t have that book any longer, it got lost somewhere. But if I remember correctly the title was “The Land of the  Sun” or the “The People of the Sun.”

“‘I HATE DIVORCE,’ SAYS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,……”

Malachi 2:16