I like this flower

“THIS STONE IS PRECIOUS.” – First Peter 2:7

“Whangarei: Love it here!” I am reading several times in the booklet called ENDLESS SUMMER FESTIVAL produced by the Whangarei District Council. I notice the exclamation mark.

The Birthday Card

For my birthday not long ago I received a card from my friends in Germany.

Hebrews 13:14 was written on the card:

“FOR HERE WE DO NOT HAVE AN ENDURING CITY, BUT WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE CITY THAT IS TO COME.”

Life is Brief.

Life is like a Shadow. First Chronicles 29:15

Life is like a Flying Shuttle. Job 7:6

Life is like a Runner. Job 9:25

Life is only a Handbreadth in Extent. Psalm 39:5

Life is like a Vanishing Vapor. James 4:14

In this world we are aliens. We are strangers. That’s why Peter says in First Peter 2:11 that we should “abstain from sinful desires.”

In John 2:15 John says, “Do not love the world or anything in the world.”

The last book of the Bible is Revelation and in chapter 21:2 we read about “THE NEW JERUSALEM.” This is what it says there:

“I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.”

I live in Kaitaia, north of Whangarei.

KAITAIA: Love it here! I don’t think so.

I am looking for the city that is to come.

INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY

Sunday 2 March

“Children’s Day in Whangarei is all about fun and Families!” I am reading in the publication called ENDLESS SUMMER FESTIVAL produced by the Whangarei District Council.

We rejoice when we see members of a family having fun together.

But there are members of families who don’t have fun together, they don’t even stay together.

Those families are lacking something.

Please type “Family Violence” and “Domestic Violence” into the SEARCH box on this blog and read the posts! There are quite a few and then come back to this post.

Years ago in London I passed a phone box at a Mission HQ and I heard a voice from the inside  saying “All you need is Jesus.”

Families are not staying together, because they are lacking the relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is a verse in the Bible I really love:

“He is before all things and in him all things hold together.”

“That none should perish” by Ed Silvoso

Finished reading the book “THAT NONE SHOULD PERISH” by Ed Silvoso.

All I can say is, “Get hold of the book and read it!”

“Treasure our CHILDREN”

Children’s Day

Sunday 2nd March 2014

My work enabled me to spend a lot of time with our children when they were small. And that’s what I did. Sometimes I think I spent too much time with them.

“Treasure time with your kids,” and “The best thing you can spend on your kids is time,” I am reading in THE WAREHOUSE weekly mailer this afternoon. (Issue 31 valid Wednesday 26/02/14 – Tuesday 04/03/14)

But the truth is that we cannot spend too much time with our children. Many, many years have gone by now but I still treasure the memories.

I am also excited and encouraged that …

“Of course, the one thing that never changes is we’re stoked you’re with us,” finishes a postcard from the team at Telecom announcing a name change. From the middle of this year the name is SPARK.

The Post Card From Telecom

I looked up “stoke” in the Collins English Dictionary and one of the definitions says, “to excite or encourage (a strong emotion) in oneself or someone else [from STOKE].

How good it is to read that the team at Telecom (telecommunications) is excited that I am with them. How good it is to hear that they are encouraged that I am with them.

“‘And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age,'” is the last sentence of the gospel of Matthew and the speaker is the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:20)

I am very excited and encouraged that the Lord Jesus Christ is with me “‘ALWAYS and to the VERY END OF THE AGE.'”

What more do I want?