“Thanks for sticking with Contact,” is the last sentence in the letter I received today from Contact Energy Limited. Contact Energy Limited is supplying us with power. (Electricity)

TOP ENERGY

Proverbs 18:24 tells us that “there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

In the Bible we are reading also about the Friendship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In John 15:15, (easy to remember) the Lord Jesus Christ says,

“I have called you friends, for everything that I have learned from my Father I have made known to you.”

Contact Energy Limited  is thanking me for sticking with them, but I am thanking the Lord Jesus Christ for sticking with me – already for more than 50 Years.

THE CROSS

“God ‘will give to each person according to what he has done.’

Romans 2:6-10

Intr.:

Part ONE

A.  To those who by persistence in doing good seek

1.  glory,

2.  honor and

3.  immortality,

he will give eternal life.

B.  But for those who are

1.  self-seeking and who

2.  reject the truth and

3.  follow evil,

there will be wrath and anger.

Part TWO

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.”

“That none should perish” by Ed Silvoso

Another second hand book I find hard to put down. I don’t know what was paid for it second hand, but the book is new $ 21.50. And I am thankful for the things I learn by reading the book. We learn until we die.

COFFEE

When I was still self-employed some years ago and interested in the tax laws of our country, I was told about someone who “eats, sleeps and breathes” tax.

That came to my mind when I read the following on a coffee plunger box:

“At Gravity we eat, sleep and breathe coffee. It’s fair to say it’s our reason for being.”

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE CONTAINS THE WORD OF GOD, BUT THAT THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD.

They believe that the author of the Bible is the Holy Spirit.

Second Timothy 3:16 and Second Peter 1:21. That are two verses we ought to memorize!

They know that the cardinal theme of the Bible is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is also the key to understanding the Word of God.

I belong to those people.

But can it be said about those people that they “eat, sleep and breathe” THE BOOK OF BOOKS, the BIBLE? Can those people say, “It’s fair to say it’s our reason for being?”

Do you know someone who “eats, sleeps, breathes” THE BOOK OF BOOKS, the BIBLE? Please let me know.

THE OPEN BIBLE

Today I joined “GENTLE WORLD” “for an informative and inspiring talk on the many reasons for transitioning to a plant-based diet and lifestyle,” here in Kaitaia at the Te Ahu Centre.