Beach Flowers

“Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what kind of wisdom do they have?” – Jeremiah 8:9

“I DARED TO CALL HIM FATHER”

REPENTANCE

What would you answer if someone asked you to define repentance?

The best answer so far I found in the book I DARED TO CALL HIM FATHER.

Here it is: “REPENTANCE, I DISCOVERED, WAS NOT TEARFUL REMORSE SO MUCH AS ADMITTING WHERE I HAD GONE WRONG AND AVOWING WITH HIS HELP NEVER TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE IN THE FUTURE.”

“WENN DU DENKST, DU BIST ZU KLEIN, UM ETWAS ZU BEWIRKEN, HAST DU NOCH NIE EINE NACHT MIT EINER STECHMUECKE VERBRACHT.”

KERIKERI

Far North District

Township, 30 km northeast of Kaikohe. (“To keep digging.”)

SUNDAY MORNING: Some people are selling and buying at the market

SUNDAY MORNING: Some people are selling and buying macadamia nuts

SUNDAY MORNING: Some people are selling and buying tomatoes (I love tomatoes)

KERIKERI BAPTIST CHURCH: Some people are worshipping the Lord on Sunday morning

WE CAN CHOOSE WHERE WE WANT TO BE ON SUNDAY MORNING.

I am usually at Church listening to the WORD OF GOD.

Where are YOU?

On the Island, making my way from the ferry to the shops

On my way to the shops

The shops

More activity

This is how far I went

Let me add that the trip from where I stayed in Auckland to the Island was free. (“Your gold AT HOP card”)

WHANGAMATA

Thames – Coromandel District.

Township, 60 km southeast of Thames. (“Harbour with mata (volcanic rock known as obsidian).”)

Visitor Centre in Whangamata

Mainstreet in Whangamata. Don’t those townships all look alike?

Mainstreet in Whangamata. It was a beautiful day and we had our lunch outside.

Whangamata Golf Club Inc.

In this quote Watchman Nee is talking about one sort of people. But if we are looking closer, we find here two groups:

“THEY SPEND MORE TIME IN ANALYSING, IN COLLECTING MATERIALS, AND IN HARD THINKING THAN ON PRAYER, ON SEEKING GOD’S MIND AND ON WAITING FOR THE POWER FROM ABOVE.” – Watchman NEE

ONE GROUP IS SPENDING MORE TIME IN:

• analysing,
• collecting materials,
• hard thinking.

THE OTHER GROUP IS SPENDING MORE TIME ON:

• prayer,
• seeking God’s mind
• waiting for the power from above.

Two questions: To which group do I belong? To which group do you belong?