BAY OF ISLANDS: Russell NZ.

“Love the world you live in,” encourages me a restaurant in Auckland I visited not long ago. It was written on the wall and I wrote it down.

It is my habit to read the devotional book MORNING AND EVENING by C. H. Spurgeon. There he writes today, Thursday, December 28, 2017:

“IF YOU FOLLOW CHRIST, YOU SHALL HAVE ALL THE DOGS OF THE WORLD YELPING AT YOUR HEALS.”

“IF YOU WANT TO LIVE SO AS TO STAND THE TEST OF THE LAST TRIBUNAL, DEPEND UPON IT, THE WORLD WILL NOT SPEAK WELL OF YOU.”

“HE WHO HAS THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS AN ENEMY TO GOD.”

The Bible says in First John 2:15: “DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD OR ANYTHING IN THE WORLD.”

Are we going to be obedient? That is the question.