One more beautiful flower

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Luke 12:34

Can you see the metal around the power pole? Why is the metal there?

Power Pole

Years ago on our trip to Cape Reinga from Kaitaia it was pointed out to us by the bus driver that the metal keeps Opossums from climbing to the power lines.

Now you know.

TAKE CARE OF WHAT THE CHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT.

“Take care of our children …”

“These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to posses, so that

you,

your children and

their children after them

may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all the decrees …” – Deuteronomy 6:1-2

What is this generation teaching the next generation?

DO I LOOK GRUMPY?

“Grumpy old man,” was written on the front of the man’s shirt and that made me have a short conversation with him.

That made me also remember an article in the paper which said about a particular man that he was not a “grumpy old man”.

Some time ago I read also “Grumpy old Woman” on the number plate of a car. When I told the owner that I liked her number plate she said to me that she gets grumpier and grumpier. (I wonder if she looked too often at the number plate and read it.)

With old age the days of trouble are coming. And what do we say about the years of old age? We say that we don’t like them very much. Have you ever heard people say, “Old age is not for sissies?” or “I like to die with my boats on?”

That’s why the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 12:1:

“Remember your creator in the days of your youth.”

Please read the whole last chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible in the Old Testament.

I cannot tell you if the man mentioned in the article of the newspaper at the beginning who was not a “grumpy old man” remembered his creator in the days of his youth.

But please remember your creator, the earlier the better, but please remember!

THE CROSS

“Then he said to them all:

Luke 9:23

Intr.:

‘If anyone would come after me,

1.  he must deny himself and

2.  take up his cross daily and

3.  follow me.'”

End:

When reading “separate” on a poster in front of a shop here in town today, where you buy newspapers and magazines, I remembered again the leaflet I picked up some time ago at our local hospital called “Family Dispute Resolution”.

It is proudly supplied by “Family Works” and inside the publication I am reading that it can be a stressful time for the whole family, when parents separate. With “Parenting through Separation” is also dealt in the pamphlet.

Have you ever wondered why the word “Separation” is in the news quite a bit?

The answer to that question is that we are separated from God. This is what we are told in Isaiah 59:2:

At the beach in AHIPARA

“But your iniquities have separated you from your God, your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.”

What is now the Way by which we may get rid of our sins? God’s law is holy and it says:

“The soul who sins is the one who will die.”

Please read that in Ezekiel 18:4.

Either we have to die for our sins, or we must find someone who will die for us. We must find a Mediator. The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins and became that Mediator.

First Timothy 2:5 tells us:

“There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

Mum and Dad who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for their sins, parents, who have a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, find it easier to stay together.

They have also this promise:

“He is before all things and in him all things hold together.” (Colossians 1:17)

The Lord Jesus Christ is also holding our marriages, our families together.