A beautiful flower

“The men of Israel sampled their provisions but did not enquire of the LORD.” – Joshua 9:14

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.

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song,” is a quote by Joan Walsh Anglund, a children’s author.

ARE WE SINGING BECAUSE WE HAVE AN ANSWER?

or

ARE WE SINGING BECAUSE WE HAVE A SONG?

King Jehoshaphat and his people. (Second Chronicles chapter twenty)

King Jehoshaphat was in deep trouble. He had to defend himself against the Moabites and the Ammonites. In Second Chronicles 20:12 the Bible says, “‘For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you.'”

The king talked to the people and appointed men to sing to the LORD.

In the same chapter we read in verse 22 that, when they began to sing, the LORD set ambushes against the enemies and they were defeated.

King Jehoshaphat and his people were singing because they had a song.

Paul and Silas in prison. (Acts chapter 16:16 to the end)

Instead of being miserable in prison, they both sang hymns to God and that at midnight. Not only the other prisoners were listening, but there was an earthquake. The earthquake destroyed the prison and the prisoners were free all of a sudden.

Paul and Silas were singing because they had a song

King Jehoshaphat and his people and Paul and Silas  were singing because they had a song, they were also singing because they had an answer.