“LIFE’S CHALLENGES ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO PARALYSE YOU, THEY ‘RE SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon

What do we really need?

FREEDOM was the theme at Tuesday’s Anzac Day service here in Kaitaia.

At the civic service the poem FREEDOM by American Army veteran Charles M Province was quoted.

TE AHU in Kaitaia

In the poem we read about the freedoms the soldier has given us.

By giving his blood, his body, his life, the soldier has given us freedom of the press; he has given us freedom of speech, and he has given us freedom to demonstrate. My father served also in the war and gave his life.

But let me tell you what we really need.

We need FREEDOM from sin.

The Lord Jesus Christ has given us freedom from sin. Revelation  1:5 says:

“TO HIM WHO LOVES US AND HAS FREED US FROM OUR SINS BY HIS BLOOD, …”

“THE NATURE OF SPIRITUAL LIFE IS THAT WE ARE CERTAIN IN OUR UNCERTAINTY, CONSEQUENTLY WE DO NOT MAKE OUR NESTS ANYWHERE.” – Oswald Chambers

“Jesus wept.” – John 11:35

Advertisements encouraging us to talk to PEOPLE, lawyers for example, to sort out our potential relationship problems. I am looking at one advertisement now.

I don’t know where you are going to sort out any potential relationship problems, but I know where I am going to talk about my problems, not only relationship problems.

I am going to pray to the living GOD.

Listen to this precious promise:

“CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON HIM BECAUSE HE CARES FOR YOU.” – First Peter 5:7

I have been told that this is a hibiscus flower

“And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in the furnace of clay, purified seven times.” – Psalm 12:6

At the beach

“Our life is what our thoughts make it,” says Marcus Aurelius.

Not long ago I saw a number plate on  a car that said:

“OLDAND

nasty”

I have also seen “Grumpy old man” written on the front of a man’s shirt.

Have you ever heard people say, “Old age is not for sissies?”

That’s what people say about old age. But what does the Bible say about “old age and gray hairs?”

The Lord says that he will sustain us. that he will carry us, that he will rescue us. Praise his name. You find that in the Old Testament, in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah 46:4.

I do not want to think what people say about old age, but what the Bible says about old age.

PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS PROMISES.