Lately I collected a number of little booklets and books. I don’t know why. Some of them have quite a good number of pages.

They are all guides.

I like the pet guide best of all because of the picture on the cover. There is also a guide for food lovers: “A food lover’s guide to Northland.” The official guide 2009-2010 to Auckland is quite thick and beautifully done. The guide to Retirement Living is a very thick book with almost 300 pages.

I should have actually mentioned the “financial Road map for New Zealanders” first. The cover has a signpost with “SORTED” written on it. “Your guide to getting there” is also written on the first page.

When I was thinking about those guidebooks, the Bible, the Word of the Living God, came to my mind and the Holy Spirit.

I remember also the hymn “Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide, Ever near the Christian’s side,…” written and composed by an American farmer called Marcus M. Wells.

The Holy Spirit is not only the author of the Bible, but also the interpreter of the Scriptures. Second Peter 1:21,22; John 16:11.

The Bible, the Word of the Living God is the guide to ETERNAL LIFE! John 17:3

“Now this is eternal life:

that they may know

—you, the only true God, and

—-Jesus Christ,

whom you have sent.”