HOUSE OR HOME?

A HOUSE OR A HOME?

In his column ONWARDS AND UPWARDS our MP informs us about the “New laws to protect children.” (The Northland Age, Thursday, September 12, 2013)

He writes “more than 50 children have died in the past five years because of extreme abuse.”

“Love makes our house a home.”

But can we legislate love? I remember Billy Graham once saying that we cannot legislate LOVE.

Mandarin Chinese is the official language of China since 1917.

Today I was able to learn some words in Mandarin Chinese like HELLO (to elderly, to someone younger or the same age), THANK YOU and GOOD BYE.

A Chinese family invited us to share a meal with them in their shop coming Monday. An elderly lady from China, who does not speak English, will also be present.

And today “it just happened” that I got in contact with two ladies – I have never met them before – at a family restaurant (McDonald’s) who speak Mandarin Chinese and were willing to give me my first (and very brief) language lesson.

There is no doubt that the advertisement is concerned about our physical life and our physical health.

But we must also be concerned about our spiritual life and our spiritual health.

“Dare yourself to go healthy”

We hear about physical health almost everywhere, and that’s why I don’t need to say really anything about our physical health.

But I want to write quite a bit about our spiritual life and our spiritual health.

What about our spiritual life and our spiritual health? What are we going to do about it?

Just as we were born the first time, we must be born a second time. When we are having our second birthday we are passing from darkness to light and we begin a new life.

All need to be born again. Let us read John 3:3. There it says, “In reply Jesus declared, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.'”

The new birth is the beginning and in order to grow the Christian must persevere in the QUIET TIME day by day with the Lord.

What does the Bible say about our physical life? Let us read Psalm 90:10. There it says, “The length of our days is seventy years – or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”

What does the Bible say about our spiritual life? John 3:36 says, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, FOR GOD’S WRATH REMAINS ON HIM.”

Do you see the difference? The physical life is not for long, but the spiritual life is forever.

THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IF MORE IMPORTANT!