Hearts

“See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God,” – Hebrews 3:12

SOUTH by E. Shackleton

“Keep a good book for company,” encourages me the column called “Look who’s talking!” in one of our local papers. (Northern News, June 3, 2015)

The good book that keeps me company at the present time is called SOUTH, The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.

The GOOD BOOK that keeps me company all the time is the BIBLE!

 The Collins Concise Dictionary  tells me that GOOD BOOK is a name for the Bible.

“THE BOOK OF BOOKS”

That I can have my name included on the nation’s flag pole informs me the leaflet called:

“WHAT DO WE STAND FOR?”

“Flag Consideration Project.”

“ETCH YOUR NAME IN HISTORY

When you share what you stand for you can also have your name included on our nation’s flag pole, and when New Zealand decides its flag, it will fly there.”

The Bible tells me about the Book of life of the slaughtered lamb in which my name is written ‘from the foundation of the world.’  Please read Revelation 17:8

New Zealand Car Flag

To win a copy of Love Languages, tell us what your “love language” is.

I love languages, but this is the first time in my life that I hear about Love Languages.

Apparently there are five:

1. words of affirmation,

2. quality time,

3. receiving gifts,

4. acts of service, and

5. physical touch.

Receiving gifts is my “love language”.

What do I stand for?

“I stand for helping out your neighbours,” it says on the placard, an elderly man is holding in his hands. The placard of a little girl standing beside her mother says, “I stand for Green Everywhere.” A man with his two boys beside him is holding the poster, “I stand for Whanau!” (Whanau is family.)

The New Zealand Flag

How glad I am to see the pictures with those placards in the leaflet called:

“WHAT DO WE STAND FOR?”

“Flag Consideration Project.”

There is talk again about changing the New Zealand flag. In the leaflet it says that “this is the first time in history that all New Zealanders will have a say in the design of the New Zealand Flag.”

I stand for the Lord Jesus Christ and sing with the hymnwriter George Duffield:

“Stand up, stand up for Jesus!

You soldiers of the cross;”

New Zealand Car Flag

“I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.” – Philemon 6

At the beach

It took me quite some time to understand the following quote by Nelson Mandela. I think I understand the meaning now, but I may still be wrong.

‘Where you stand depends on where you sit,” was written on the board which you can see in front of a shop here in town, where you can also buy coffee.

An inventor was once asked what made him so successful. His answer was, “By constantly thinking about the matter.”

I must have thought quite a bit about the above quote. The German saying: “Dessen Brot ich esse, dessen Lied singe ich,” came to my mind. Into English I translate it like this: “I am singing the song of the people who feed me.”

All of a sudden it came to my mind that we are sitting at a table. I remembered also what David says in Psalm 23. What does he say there? “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” (Psalm 23:5)

David stood before the Lord. He was sitting at the table of the Lord.

King Jehoshaphat stood also before the Lord. (Second Chronicles 20)

“All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the Lord.” (Second Chronicles 20:13)

I also want to stand before the Lord.

Let us also remember: “If we don’t stand  for something we’ll fall for anything!”

Please let me know if I have grasped the correct meaning of the quote or not!