I started to live (really) when I was almost nineteen years of age. And since then I have LIVED EVERY MOMENT!

On the 2nd of September 1958 I passed from death to life. First John 3:14 “We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers.” On that day I came to the Lord Jesus Christ. John 5:40 “yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” Read also Jeremiah 29:13! “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

In the evening of the 2nd of September  1958 the Lord Jesus Christ became the ruler of my life. Luke 19:14 “‘We don’t want this man to be our KING.'” That meant I was no longer sitting on my own little throne.

On the 2nd of September 58 I began to LIVE EVERY MOMENT! Remember, before that day I was dead, but now I was alive.

All  of a sudden the Bible became alive. The Bible was no longer like any other book I possessed. From that time on I began to grow spiritually and I am still growing.

One thing I knew from the very beginning when I became a true follower of the Lord Jesus Christ: I knew, that I had eternal life. Why? Because I read in the Bible in First John 5:13 “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may KNOW that you have eternal life.”

If you don’t know that you have eternal life, your spiritual life is very fickle!!

I am looking back on a wonderful journey with the Lord Jesus Christ and the journey is going on until I see the LORD JESUS CHRIST face to face

Are YOU “Living Every Moment?”

At the present time I am reading about “Proper Christmas Presents”, “The Ultimate Christmas Gift” ( Northland 2011 Calendar!) and “our gift card,the perfect Christmas gift!”

Today I picked up “Farmers last minute gift guide.”

I am also reading the Bible, The Word of the Living God. The Bible is my guide book. It fills me always with joy, when I read about the gifts mentioned in  my guide book, the Bible.

John 4:10

Acts 1:8

Acts 2:38

Romans 6:23

Romans 12:6

First Corinthians 7:7

Second Corinthians 9:15

Ephesians 2:8

Hebrews 6:4

James 1:17

First Peter 3:7

Revelation 22:17

Matthew 7:11

Romans 11:29

Romans 12:6

First Corinthians 12

“Oh Herr, mach mich zum Werkzeug deines Friedens! Wo Hass ist, lass Liebe saeen; wo Unrecht, Verzeihung; wo Zweifel, Glaube; wo Verzweiflung, Hoffnung; wo Finsternis, Licht und wo Trauer, Freude.” – Franz von Assisi

“Kia whitianga te ra, ka hihi, ka whakamana, te ha, te he, kia whai kikokiko, kia puawai te mauri.”

“Te sun arises with each new day; its rays beckon opportunity to all living things.”

That’s what is written on the postcard I picked up at the local Age Concern office here in Kaitaia. The card is published by the Mental Health Foundation. (The Mental Health Awareness Week was from 4-10 October 2010.)

“Flourishing for everyBODY

Feel good and function well”

On the postcard is also explained in more details what “Feeling good” and “functioning well” means.

The dictionary explains that to flourish is “to thrive; prosper; to be at the peak of condition; to be healthy: plants flourish in the light.” “The sun arises with each new day; its rays beckon opportunity to all living things.”

The Bible, the Word of the Living God, tells us about those natural  effects of the sun: causing the fruits of the earth to grow (Deuteronomy 33:14; Second Samuel 23:4).

In the book of  Psalms God himself is  said to be the sun. Read Psalm 84:11!

“For the Lord God is a sun……….

Does that not mean that He is the source of spiritual light and gladness?

God is the source of spiritual light and we cannot flourish without HIM!

Read also Matthew 17:2 and Revelation 1:16

Physical Droughts

We are reading about physical droughts in the paper:

The Northern Advocate: “Far North prepares for major drought”

The Northland Age: “Drought zone” and “Council acts early to prepare for another drought”

SPIRITUAL DROUGHTS

We are reading about spiritual droughts in the Bible, the Word of the Living God:

Psalm 63:1

O GOD,

Intr.:

you are my God,

1. earnestly I seek you;

2. my soul thirsts for you,

3. my body longs for you,

End:

in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”

Psalm 68:6

“God sets the lonely in families,

he leads forth the prisoners with singing;

but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.”