WE ARE NOT FAR FROM THE BEACHES: And I love them.

“So once again people are calling for ‘someone’ to do ‘something’, writes the editor of our local paper, The Northland Age, in his editorial, Tuesday, May 22, 2018.

This time people are outraged because drivers are driving on the wrong side of the road and people are getting killed.

In New Zealand we are driving on the left side of the road. And I don’t need to tell you that there are countries where you drive on the right side, Germany for example. I am from Germany and when I meet Germans here in Kaitaia and when I have a chance I am not only telling them about what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for me, but I tell them also not to forget to drive on the left side of the road and to be careful where they stay overnight.

It is so easy for tourists, visitors, who come from countries where the law is to drive on the right side of the road to forget, that they must drive on the left side here in New Zealand.

Today is the funeral of a person I know from church, who was killed on the road not long ago together with another person because a car was driven on the wrong side of the road.

In Germany we drive on the right side of the road. Although I passed my driver licence in Germany, I never owned a car in that country, only a pushbike. My first vehicle was a motorbike in Thailand, and in Thailand we drive on the left side of the road. That’s why I was always used to drive on the left side. The Lord Jesus Christ was in all this.

What can we do about the different road rules in different countries? Does anybody have an answer?

For a long time it has been our habit as a family not to call for ‘someone’ to do ‘something’ but to pray to someone, the Living God, to protect us on the road, and not only to protect us on the road, but to protect our place while we are away. We cannot take things for granted.

James 4:2 says: “YOU DO NOT HAVE, BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ASK GOD.”