I am asking myself now the question, “What am I powered by?”

Power Lines

On my computer it says “powered by Ask” and yesterday walking on the mainstreet here in Kaitaia, I saw two cars which had stickers starting with “Powered by …”

“Powered By MediaWiki,” I read yesterday in the evening on the screen of my computer.

Not too many days ago I received two emails telling me about the death of people. One email was from Germany and it said that a servant of the Lord I knew had gone home.  Thinking about “had gone home” made me look up what I read some time ago in the book GOOD IN EVERYTHING by H. L. Gee. On page 198 he is quoting the Rev. William J. May, who said, “In a quiet churchyard in Sussex is a simple grave which bears this lovely inscription: Gone home with a friend.”

Do you know what I am actually powered by?

I AM POWERED BY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT I AM ON MY WAY HOME.

And what a power that is!

The knowledge that I am on my way home gets me through everything, really everything.

I rejoice with the hymnwriter who gave us the hymn: “Going home, going home, I’m just going home.” (William A. Fisher ed. Lindsay Smith)

“The WATCHTOWER” is the magazine of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and I am amazed at the printing each issue. This is what I find in Vol 136, No 7:

Printing Each Issue:

52,946,000 in 228 Languages   April 1, 2015

THE CROSS

“FOR GOD DOES NOT SHOW FAVORITISM …”

Romans 2:9-11

Intr.:

A.  “There will be

1.  trouble and

2.  distress

for every human being who does evil:

first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;

B.  but

1.  glory,

2.  honor and

3.  peace

for everyone who does good:

first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

End:

For God does not show favoritism.”

THE CROSS

“God ‘will give to each person

Romans 2:6-8

Intr.:

according to what he has done’.

A.  To those who

1.  by persistence in doing good

2.  seek

a. glory,

b.  honor and

c.  immortality,

he will give eternal life.

B.  But for those who

1.  are self-seeking and

2.  who reject the truth and

3. follow evil

there will be wrath and anger.”

End:

Another beautiful flower

“For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.” – Romans 5:19

HAND

“Es kommt nicht darauf an, was der Mensch in der Hand hat, sondern wer ihn in der Hand hat.” – Wolfgang Dyck

Another beautiful flower

“He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.” – Romans 4:25

Home Defence

“Transform your home with total protection technology,” I am told.

What an encouragement, to defend the building, to protect the dwelling, I am living in. Are you looking after the home you are dwelling in? I am and I know also that it is quite costly to do so.

But the home is not only the building, the home is the people who live in the house.

Can I encourage you to defend your family, can I encourage you to protect the people who live in your dwelling. Families need protection from many things.

Drinking is a problem.

Smoking is a problem.

Drugs are a problem.

Pornography is a problem.

I don’t need to elaborate on all those problems, because you find the details in the newspapers and you hear about them over the radio and see them on TV.

I remember a saying and it goes like this:

Only those people who have learned to be obedient themselves, can demand obedience from others.

That is a good saying for parents to remember. I translated it from German to my best knowledge.

I am all for transforming my home, the building, with total protection technology, but I know that it is more important to protect and to defend the people who live in the dwelling.

What is the motto of the Salvation Army?

“CARING FOR PEOPLE

TRANSFORMING LIVES

REFORMING SOCIETY”