“Bleib auf dem geraden Weg; eine Abkuerzung koennte sich leicht als Umweg herausstellen! Es nuetzt dir nichts, schnell vorwaerts zu schreiten, wenn du in die falsche Richtung gehst!
– Marianne Ingold
Monthly Archives: September 2013
“DARE YOURSELF TO GO HEALTHY”
There is no doubt that the advertisement is concerned about our physical life and our physical health.
But we must also be concerned about our spiritual life and our spiritual health.
“Dare yourself to go healthy”
We hear about physical health almost everywhere, and that’s why I don’t need to say really anything about our physical health.
But I want to write quite a bit about our spiritual life and our spiritual health.
What about our spiritual life and our spiritual health? What are we going to do about it?
Just as we were born the first time, we must be born a second time. When we are having our second birthday we are passing from darkness to light and we begin a new life.
All need to be born again. Let us read John 3:3. There it says, “In reply Jesus declared, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.'”
The new birth is the beginning and in order to grow the Christian must persevere in the QUIET TIME day by day with the Lord.
What does the Bible say about our physical life? Let us read Psalm 90:10. There it says, “The length of our days is seventy years – or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”
What does the Bible say about our spiritual life? John 3:36 says, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, FOR GOD’S WRATH REMAINS ON HIM.”
Do you see the difference? The physical life is not for long, but the spiritual life is forever.
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IF MORE IMPORTANT!
Inside and Outside the Library Today
“Talking about independence is one thing – being truly independent is another,” says the advertisement I saw this afternoon in the magazine called FAMILY CARE, Issue 28, in our local library.
An INVACARE PEGASUS SCOOTER is advertised
DEPENDABILITY
and the cost is only $3,995 including GST. There is also a photo of the scooter.
Coming out of the library I am encouraged to vote for DEPENDABILITY in the upcoming Local Body Elections in October.
From what I read inside the library and from what I read outside the library it seems to me, that I can choose between “being truly independent” and “dependability”. Do I get that right?
But I have learnt already long ago that we cannot choose between being independent and being dependent.
We are dependent beings. We are dependent on God. We are not self-existent.
ONLY GOD IS SELF-EXISTENT!
TE HONGI
TE HONGI
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Plato said,
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.”
Please read what the Bible says in John 3:19-21!
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill