“As a rule the happiest people are those who are so busy doing their duty that they have no time to look for happiness.”

Anonymous

Are you now asking what our duty is?

Here is the answer:

Ecclesiastes 12:13

“Now all has been heard;

here is the conclusion of the matter:

Fear God and

keep his commands,

for this is the whole duty of man.”

I read this morning Nehemiah chapter three . It is about the builders of the wall. Many builders of the wall are mentioned and they were building…… but Baruch son of Zabbai was repairing zealously.

Now I am asking myself some questions. Are you also asking yourself some questions?

Nehemiah 3:20

“Next to him, Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired another section,….”

Ezra 9:4

“Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Isreal…..”

Isaiah 66:2

“…, and trembles at my word.”

“DON’T DREAM IT……….. DO IT!

That says the ad in a travel magazine advertising the skyjump and skywalk in Auckland. ( In Maori language the city’s name is Tamaki Makau Rau, which translates as “the city of 100 lovers”.)

“….ONLY A DREAM.”

“Vision without action is only a dream.

Action without vision is wasting time.

Vision and action can change the world.”

Confucius

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“….BUT A DREAM,…”

“A vision without a task is but a dream,

a task without a vision is drudgery,

a vision and a task is the hope of the world.”

– A church in Sussex, England, ca 1730

Is that not the same?

“Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture.

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.”

Vaclav Havel

“UNLESS YOU ARE HONEST IN SMALL THINGS YOU WON’T BE IN LARGE ONES.”

We were on our way to Auckland by car when a camper van came towards us. The two vehicles passed each other very quick , but I think “WHICH WAY?” was written on the front of the camper van.

“Which way? There is only one way.

John 14:6

“Jesus answered, ‘I am the

WAY and the

truth and the

life.'”

I was so sure that Germany  (I am from Germany) would win the 2010 Football World Cup!

But they did not. On the morning they lost against Spain we drove to Auckland and I heard about it in Whangarei at the Information Centre.

Who wants to belong to the losers? Nobody does. But I felt I did. I would have loved them to win.

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No, I am not a loser. I AM A WINNER!

First Corinthians 15:57  “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Second Corinthians 2:14 “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and…”

First John 5:4 “This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.”