EARS

“MY SON, IF YOU ACCEPT MY WORDS AND STORE UP MY COMMANDS WITHIN YOU, TURNING YOUR EAR TO WISDOM AND APPLYING YOUR HEART TO UNDERSTANDING, … – Proverbs 2:1,2

Heart

“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” – Proverbs 17:22

Foot

“Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house – too much of you, and he will hate you.” – Proverbs 25:17

Hand

“A quarrelsome wife is like  constant dripping on  a rainy day; restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.” – Proverbs 27:15,16

Sunflower

“And Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘The years of my pilgrimage are hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.'” – Genesis 47:9

Pastor Wilhelm Busch, the author of a devotional book (and many other books), whose church services I attended long ago in Essen / Germany, is thinking about his readers and is writing about them in his foreword.

STONES

There he is also imagining a mature christian widow reading the devotional book in her humble dwelling who knows the difference between the “Bread of Life’ and “Stones.”

People who desire the “Bread of Life” flocking into churches where the “Bread of Life” is preached instead of “Stones”.

They flocked into the meeting house of Pastor W. Busch in Essen and they flocked also into the church of August Vilmar, I am reading just now.

(Geduld und Glaube der Heiligen (Patience and Faith of the Saints) by Joerg Erb. He is writing about August Vilmar on July 30)

August Vilmar lived from 1800 – 1868 and when he was a young Theologian he pondered the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians in preparation for a sermon, when the Lord met him in a special way. It was an hour of grace he remembered until the end of his life. Heavenly light fell into his heart. In Ephesians chapter one the Apostle Paul is talking about the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The message of August Vilmar to his listeners was that the Lord Jesus Christ was the only comfort, the only hope.

When he spoke the listeners felt often that they were in the presence of God.

My mother was actually a mature christian widow who lived in a humble dwelling most of her life and who knew the difference between the “Bread of Life” and “Stones,” and desired the “Bread of Life”.

BREAD

DAFFODIL DAY – AUGUST 28TH 2015

Daffodil Day

You can actually write with those syringes. I have done it. One writes a little bit better than the other.

Syringes

At the present time I am doing more reading than writing. The reason is that I cannot put the book down I am reading just now. The book is:

“BORN AGAIN” by Charles W. Colson

I am about half way through!