This afternoon I read a book that is really in tatters, the spine is broken and someone has ripped out the pictures and I am surprised that it is still in one piece and that I picked it up at all.

It is the book called PRECIOUS THINGS OF THE LASTING HILLS  by Isobel Kuhn with a foreword by Mildred Cable. It is a CHINA INLAND MISSION BOOK. It was first printed before I was born. In the book I found the following quote by Oswald Chambers:

“To go the second mile means to do always your duty, and a great deal more than your duty, in the spirit of loving devotion that does not even know it had done its duty.”

But how glad I am that I picked it up and read the 79 pages. When I finished reading the last chapter, chapter five, I was really moved and almost in tears.

I think the book is so worn out because it has had many readers. I think I will read it again!

Of course, I have read the public notices in the local paper about the coming power outage, Sunday 1 February 2015, 8AM – 6PM, but not thoroughly.

Power

Today is Sunday, February 15, 2015, and before 8AM it was pointed out to me that in case of bad weather or unforeseen circumstances, the power outage would be postponed until next Sunday.

At the present time I am reading the book THE  FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS (Romans, exposition of Chapter 8:17-39) by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

Today I am reading there on page 175:

“But one of God’s ways of using every kind of circumstance and condition for our good is that suddenly, by His Spirit, He illuminates our understanding as to what is happening to us; and the moment you begin to understand, all is well.”

There are no unforeseen circumstances for God and his children.

And in case you are interested, the power cut was TODAY!

Who know the name of the Flower?

“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” – Romans 15:7

The Open BIBLE

Have you ever had the joy of finding written down by someone else what you have been thinking and saying for a long time and what you have also written about?

I had the joy recently:

“The natural man does not believe that this Word is true; to him the Bible is just like any other book. But when a man is really called by God he knows that the Bible is not mere word of man.”

That is what D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says in his book THE FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS, exposition of ROMANS Chapter 8:17-39.

Who know the name of the Flower?

“Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me.” – John 14:21