“Reach for the World.” I find that message written on bookmarks I picked up at our  library here in Kaitaia.

And that’s exactly what I did when I was a kid. I read books to “reach the world”. I read the books about foreign countries in order to go there one day.

BOOKMARKS

The day came when the Bible became for me “The Book of Books” and I read in Matthew 16:26:

“What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Here the Lord Jesus Christ speaks about the world and the soul.  He does not underrate the world. He made the world. He knows the price of souls. He redeemed souls. The Lord Jesus Christ says that one soul is worth more than all the world.

Now I am reaching souls. At the same time I am also “reaching the world.” I was born in Germany, worked as a missionary in Thailand and I am now here in New Zealand.