“Passionate about service,” I read some time ago on a delivery truck I saw at Ahipara.

“Passionate about service”

“PASSION FOR A PURPOSE,” is the title of a story I saw today in one of our local papers, while having coffee at one of our restaurants here in Kaitaia. Also today in a book written by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Romans I came across the quote by Count Zinzendorf, “I HAVE ONE PASSION, IT IS HE, AND HE ALONE”! Meaning of course the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf was born in Dresden in Germany in the year 1700, and he died in the year 1760 in Herrnhut, also in Germany. In 1722 he founded Herrnhut, where he lived. He preached the Lord Jesus Christ in many places. They include Norway, Greenland, Russia, England, America and Africa. I can hardly believe it, but he wrote 2000 hymns. The hymn “HERZ UND HERZ VEREINT ZUSAMMEN”, he wrote in the year 1723 in Dresden.

It is always a great encouragement to read about people who are compassionate about something, especially about people who are compassionate about the service for the Lord Jesus Christ.

THE CROSS

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land,

Numbers 33:55,56

Introduction:

those you allow to remain will become

1. barbs in your eyes and
2. thorns in your side.
3. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.

End:

And then I will do to you what I plan to do them.”

“CONTINUED WORLDLY PROSPERITY IS A FIERY TRIAL.” – C. H. Spurgeon