“I always ask people what is on their list, and many people reply that they’ve never thought about it. But what could be more important than identifying what you want to do in life?”

 With “list” here a bucket list is meant and I am reading all that in the magazine called GOOD READING December 2011 / January 2012 on the pages 24 and 25. ( I found the magazine in our library.)

“I was searching for myself through travel,” I am reading there also.

Let me say first of all that I have a “list”, but I must also say that I have never searched for myself.

I have searched for the meaning to life.

There is a wonderful promise in Jeremiah 29:13,14, where the Lord says: “‘You will seek me and find me  when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, …” 

I was seeking with all my heart and found the Lord. Actually the Lord found me! That was long ago and from then on my goal in life was to do what the Lord wanted me to do. Straight away I had the desire and I still have the desire to tell others about what the Lord has done for me. I did that in Germany, as a missionary in Thailand (WEC*), as a missionary in Kaikohe (UMM*) and  now in Kaitaia (Retired). 

But back to the magazine called GOOD READING mentioned already.

There it says also, “People now email me, not only congratulating me  for things that I’ve done, but also to share  their own list of goals.”

My  GOAL is to please the Lord Jesus Christ and my GOAL is the salvation of my soul.

Please read Second Corinthians 5:9 and First Peter 1:9 .

In First Peter 1:9 we read:

” …, FOR YOU ARE RECEIVING THE GOAL OF YOUR FAITH, THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL.”

*WEC is short for a Missionary Society and UMM the same.