“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.” – Abigail van Buren

“Die vorweihnachtliche Adventszeit ist eine Moeglichkeit, zur Ruhe zu kommen, waere da nicht der Vorweihnachtsstress.” – Gudrun Knapp

“Without knowing who I am and why I am here, life is impossible.” The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who lived from 1828-1920, said that.

Let us ask  two questions: “Who I am?” and  “Why I am here?”

“WHO I AM?”

On the service sheets of the last two funerals I went to I found the hymn “Amazing grace” by John Newton.

Church Service in Thailand

Picture/ Alan Collingwood

The first verse goes like this:

“Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.”

“WHY I AM HERE?”

At the end of the Gospel of Matthew we find The Great Commission. There the Lord Jesus Christ says, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, …” (Matthew 28:18-20)

I am a sinner saved by grace. I was lost and blind, but now I am found and I can see. I believed.

And as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ I am here to be obedient to The Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ to tell others that they must believe in HIM. That’s why I went as a missionary to Thailand.