HARAKEKE – FLAX

“When one door of happiness closes another opens; but, often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

About the Future, about predicting the Future, is the publisher and editor of the Franchise New Zealand magazine & website writing. (Franchise New Zealand magazine, Issue 1 Autumn 2013)

He says that weather forecasters will tell us that predicting the future is a very difficult thing. He says also that it is a very dangerous thing to predict the future.

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But here are his own words: “Predicting the future is a dangerous thing to do, particularly if someone is looking for an opportunity into which to invest their money and their life.” (“What’s the next big thing in franchising?”)

I invested my life into the service of God. I devoted my life to the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Second Peter 3:8 we read:

“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”

I looked up Second Peter 3:8 in three commentaries on the Bible and this is what I learned:

“His eternity exceeds all measures of time.” (Jamieson Fausset and Brown) “All things past, present, and future, are ever before him.” (Matthew Henry) “God is outside time.” (The New Bible Commentary Revised)

And this is what Peter Drucker says, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

HARAKEKE – FLAX

“God has decided and ordered and arranged that a life of forgetfulness of Him, and of antagonism to Him, shall not be successful and happy.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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“JESUS did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.” – Corrie ten Boom

“The people of Judah were taken captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.” – First Chronicles 9:1

“It seems astonishing, but scientific research suggests that social isolation, in the long term, is as damaging as a 15-a-day cigarette habit or being an alcoholic. Studies have found that those  with a poor social network are at increased risk of dementia and high blood pressure, and the genes we need to fight off serious viral infections seem to be less active in the lonely than in the rest of the population. Loneliness may be a contributing factor in cancer or heart disease. So here are just a few tips on how to stay connected.” (Age Concern Kaitaia + District, May 2013 Newsletter)

Quite a number of tips are given.

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There is one isolation that is even more damaging than the social isolation you have just read about, and that is the isolation from from the Living God.

Keeping connected with the Living God is more important than anything else!

How do we stay connected with God?

First of all we pray to God regularly.

Secondly we read His Word, the BIBLE, regularly.

Please read more posts on this blog if you have never had a  connection with the Lord Jesus Christ.