Pick me up, where I am.

Some people who write books know how to do that in a special way.

There is a bus stop on a long stretch of road. Quite a number of people waiting there for the next bus, and when they see the bus coming in the distance, they are expecting the bus to stop, so that they can jump on.

But the bus does not stop, but carries on for another fifty metres, before it comes to a standstill.

And I don’t want to hear what the people are telling the driver of the bus, when they reach the vehicle.

At the present time I am reading a book, where the author picks me up, where I am.

Books like that are a blessing.

There will be a power outage on the last Sunday of November in our area.

Two of our local newspapers carrying the following full-page announcement:

“POWER OUTAGE

Kaitaia, Surrounding Districts and South Hokianga

Sunday 29 November 2015”

Power lines

The reason for the outage is that the foundations of an electricity pole have failed.

The pole is moving.

The pole is cracked.

The pole is collapsing.

The pole is carrying the only high-voltage power line supplying us with electricity.

I am reminded again how important foundations are, not only for our material life, but also for our spiritual life.

Thinking about our spiritual life, I remember straight away First Corinthians 3:11, where it says:

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

The following sign could be seen at a church some years ago:

“The ‘Light’ of the world has no ‘power’ shortage.”

Fishing

Hooked! (Thinking about something all the time.)

“Hooked on fishing pg 14,” it says at the top of the front page of our local paper. (The Northland Age, Tuesday, November 10, 2015)

The story and pictures are on the last page.

Reading that makes me wide awake. Why?

Because in Matthew 4:19 the Bible says, “‘Come, follow me,'” Jesus said, “‘and I will make you fishers of men.'” Read also Mark 1:17.

Hooked means to be obsessed with. Obsessed means thinking about something all the time.

Let us encourage one another to think all the time about fishing of men.