Author Archives: Werner Dekarski

Warm, Weich, Still, Dunkel

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Warm, weich, still, dunkel, are the four words I remembered one night not long ago. Do you know the language?

We were trying to sleep, but had to listen to ‘noise’ (music) until  about 3am that night. With we I mean the usual occupants of the house  and an unfortunate visitor from Auckland.

I was born in Germany, lived in Thailand for thirteen years, but I cannot remember a noisy night like that. (Maybe I am getting old.)

Long ago in Germany I learned that if you want to sleep you have to find a warm place, a soft place, a dark place and … a quiet place.

Quietness was missing that night and I was unable to do something about it!

DUST

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“Umbrellas were left to gather dust in the Far North last month, the driest January in Kaitaia (according to Northland Age records) since 1988 and one of the driest on record.”

KINGDOM TARGET

KINGDOM TARGET

That says the first paragraph of the article “JANUARY THE DRIEST IN AN AGE OF RECORDS” (The Northland Age, Thursday, February, 7, 2013)

Dust on umbrellas means dry weather; it means, that there is a drought, a physical drought. 

Dust on Bibles means that there is a spiritual drought.

The Gospel is preached here in the Far North of New Zealand, especially here in Kaitaia many, many people are gathering at different places every Sunday to praise the Lord.

At the present time there is a Men/Youth Conference at the A&P Showgrounds here in Kaitaia and the theme of one guest speaker was honouring the Bible, THE WORD OF THE LIVING GOD.

He certainly did not have any dust on his Bible and he encouraged us not to leave our Bibles to gather dust.

I leave it to you to answer the following two questions:

Do we have dust on our Bibles?

Do we have a spiritual drought?

Physical droughts are deadly, but spiritual droughts are deadlier.