Monthly Archives: January 2013
Quote
“Der Christ lebt nicht mehr aus sich selbst, aus seiner eigenen Anklage und seiner eigenen Rechtfertigung, sondern aus Gottes Anklage und Gottes Rechtfertigung.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
LOVE
LOVE is one of the most used words and one of the least understood words.
At least I think so.
What do we really mean, when we say that we love someone?
How do we define love?
Love is not obligatory. We are commanded to love.
The first and greatest commandment:
Matthew 22:37
The Lord Jesus Christ commanded to love the Lord our God. He commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind.
And the second is like it:
Matthew 22:39
The Lord Jesus Christ commanded also to love our neighbor as ourself.
At the present time I am reading the book RENEWED DAY BY DAY, a daily devotional, by A. W. Tozer and I am learning more about love.
A. W. Tozer says that we can describe love, but we cannot define love. He says “that love can only be understood by the feeling of it.”
He says also that the love of God “can never be explained by the intellect and can only be known by the heart, the innermost being.”
HOME!
"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that."
I am finding that quote by Dolly Parton in an old
Reader's Digest.(October 2008)
I have never had an earthly home.
I was born in 1940 in the east of Germany and I had to flee and ended up in the north of Germany near the
danish border. (Schleswig - Holstein)
But I have a heavenly home. In a very old book called
GOOD IN EVERYTHING by H. L. Gee I find what Earl
Baldwin said: "In the remote parts of the countryside
old people still say of those who die, They have gone home."
I have never known my earthly father. My father fought in the war and did not
come back. We don't even know where he died.
But I know my heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the same book GOOD IN EVERYTHING I read also what Rev. William J. May said: "In a quiet churchyard in Sussex is a simple grave which bears this lovely
inscription: Gone home with a Friend."
I close my eyes and go to my heavenly home. I can always draw from that. But
not only that. I open my BIBLE and read about my heavenly home!LOVE
“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. – Leo Buscaglia
Try it! It works!
“Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.” –
Coffee News Vol 142:2
Can you see with the Heart?
“It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye.” – Antonie de Saint Exupery
“Tick off each Day …”
“Tick off each day that you read.”
I am reading that in the Far North District Libraries Summer Reading Activity Book.
The Activity Book encourages young readers not to stop reading in the holidays. It encourages young readers to use their “reading muscles every day,” to be strong readers, and to “read everywhere.”
Can I encourage you to tick off each day on the calendar that you read the Bible?
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” – Matthew 24:35