EYES

“‘WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT OUR EYES ARE ON YOU.'” – Second Chronicles 20:12 

Footsteps

“LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, FOR IN SO DOING YOU ARE FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRIST.'” – C. H Spurgeon

Listening!

“The Prime Minister said …”

“The Minister of Finance said …”

“The Minister for Primary Industries said …”

When we are reading that in the paper we are listening.

And does it not sound quite impressive when we are hearing that over the radio? (We don’t have TV.)

But are we also listening when we are reading the following in the Bible?

In Isaiah 1:2 it says that the LORD has spoken. Please get yourself a Bible and read what he has spoken. In Isaiah 1:18 we read again that the LORD says something.

The Bible is full of what the LORD says.

I really like what it says in Isaiah 30:15: (This is also a SERMON OUTLINE.)

THE CROSS

“THIS IS

Intr.:

what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel says:

1.  ‘In repentance and rest is your salvation,

2.  in quietness and trust is your strength,

End:

but you would have none of it.'”

And this is what the LORD also says:

In Jeremiah 17:5 we read,

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.'”

(Please find a Bible and keep on reading!)

I am listening. Are you also listening?

In his book ABSOLUTE POWER the author Ian Wishart is quoting the English jurist Lord Acton who said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

Today I attended a candidate meeting at Far North REAP on Puckey Ave, Kaitaia, at 1.30pm.

Main Street

Not long ago we drove to KERIKERI, about 100 km south from Kaitaia, to pick up something.

Kerikeri is a beautiful place and it is not difficult to fall in love with the township. My dictionary of New Zealand Maori Place Names tells me that the meaning is “to keep on digging.”

The name of the township is a challenge for me. I am reminded that I am a person who is digging for treasures. My silver and gold mine is the Bible.

In Job chapter 28 at the beginning we are told:

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“‘There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from he earth, and copper smelted from ore.'”

My tool to dig is prayer. I know that the more time I spend in prayer the more treasure I find.

As yet I don’t know why the meaning of Kerikeri is “to keep on digging,” but I know that I keep on digging for treasure in the Bible.

And here is one of the Golden Nuggets I have found:

“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid which is Jesus Christ.”

Please tell me where you find that nugget in the “BOOK OF BOOKS.”

Target Sheet

In the book

FARMERS

YOUR STORE FOR 100 YEARS

by Ian Hunter, I am reading about the aim of the store by the founder Robert Laidlaw and that made me look up the word “aim” in the Bible.

In his letter to the the church of God in Corinth the Apostle Paul is writing about unmarried women and he says that the aim of unmarried women “is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit.” There is also a second letter of the Apostle Paul in the Bible and at the end of the letter he tells the church of God in Corinth and all the saints throughout Asia to aim for perfection. Hear also that our Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 5:48 “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

How glad I am to read about the aim of the Farmers’ founder. I am not asking you, but I am asking myself now, “What am I aiming at?”