“Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it life?” asks the American poet Mary Oliver.

I am glad she asks that question

In John 10:10 the Lord Jesus Christ says, “‘I have come that they may have  life and have it to the full.'”

And in John 11:25 the Lord Jesus Christ says not only that he is the life, but that he is also the resurrection.

The Lord said to Martha, “‘He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?'” (John 11:25,26)

I believe in the name of the Son of God and I know that I have eternal life. (First John 5:13)

No, I am not  breathing just a little and calling it life!

The hymn “I have decided to follow Jesus,” comes to my mind, when I am thinking about “One Way.”

One – Way traffic means moving in one direction only.

“One Way”

In verse two of the hymn “I have decided to follow Jesus,” the hymnwriter says that the world is behind and the cross is before.

In verse three the hymnwriter will still follow the Lord Jesus Christ even though nobody else will.

In the last verse the writer of the hymn asks, “Will you decide now to follow Jesus?”

All four verses  of  the hymn have the same ending, namely: “No turning back, no turning back.”

THE CROSS

“Instead,

Joshua 23:11

Intr.:

they will become

1.  snares and
2. traps for you,
3. whips on your backs and
4. thorns in your eyes,

End:

until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.”

“They have found him dead in THE VALLEY!”

It was one day before Christmas, when the sad news spread like a wildfire through the little remote village in the mountains of Switzerland.

Sepp was one of the best mountain climbers in the village, and was missing for quite some time.

Now everybody asked the question, “What happened?”

Christmas Day Ida rushed into her neighbor’s house , where she found her gossiping with Lotte and drinking tea with the latest news, “They found a paper in one of Sepp’s pockets on which was written, ‘The tongue has the power of life and death.'”

I am aiming to read the BIBLE from cover to cover at least once every year.

The Northland Age, Thursday, February 23, 2017

At the beginning of this year, 2017, I started again with GENESIS and TODAY I finished the book of JOSHUA.

“SUCCESS  IS WALKING FROM FAILURE TO FAILURE WITH NO LOSS OF ENTHUSIASM.” – Winston Churchill

“Gott achtet nicht auf unsere Stellung, er achtet auf unsere Einstellung.” – Arno Backhaus

There are many people who think that they are on the way to heaven, but they are actually on the wrong way.

“WRONG WAY”

WRONG WAYS ARE:

1. Obedience, obedience to what it says in the Bible.
2. Living a good life, doing our best.
3. Doing good works.
4. Prayer, Attending church, church membership.
5. Water Baptism, Holy Communion. (Is for those who are already saved!)
6. Being born of Christian parents
7. Confirmation, penance, extreme unction.

Only faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can save us. In Acts 16:30 the jailer asked, “‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?'” What is the answer? “‘Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved – you and your household.'”