“Fed up of carrying heavy guidebooks?”

I am finding that question in the TNT Magazine on page 19. (May-June 2012 Issue 89)

The advertisement continues: “THEN TNT HAS THE ANSWER

We’ve published our 2012 Independent Traveller’s Guide to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.”

Of course, I am fed up of carrying heavy guidebooks! That is my answer to the above question.

But I am never fed up of carrying the greatest guidebook, the BIBLE. The BIBLE is the guidebook to ETERNAL LIFE!

What is ETERNAL LIFE?

The Lord JESUS CHRIST is the cardinal theme of the BIBLE and he is also the key to understanding it.

He says: (John 17:3)

“Now this is eternal life:

— that they may know you,

the only true God, and

— JESUS CHRIST,

whom you have sent.”

Do you know that you have eternal life? We can know and we must know! Read  John 10:28; First John 5:13

I know that I have ETERNAL LIFE!

“DISCOVER HOW OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SEA HAS SHAPED OUR NATION’S HISTORY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.”

I am reading that in THE AUCKLAND GUIDE 2011-12!

DISCOVER HOW MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING GOD HAS SHAPED MY LIFE’S HISTORY.

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It all started in GERMANY and I would have never thought that it would lead me to NEW ZEALAND!

On the cover, front and back, of  THE AUCKLAND GUIDE  2011-12,  I find words like these: “LIVE”, “EMBRACE”, “LOVE”, “EXPLORE”, “REFRESH”, “OASIS”, “ENERGY”, etc !

I am especially interested in the word “OASIS”.

Are you looking for an OASIS? What is an OASIS? The Collins Concise Dictionary says, “a fertile patch in a desert occuring where the water table approaches or reaches the ground surface.”

Water! “Fresh water is the world’s most precious resource.”

Are you looking for Living Water? Are you looking for water which satisfies the deepest needs?

The Lord JESUS CHRIST is the source of Living Water. (John 4:10) In the dictionary I am reading also that an OASIS is:

— a place of peace.

— a place of safety.

— a place of happiness.

“I have: NO TIME”

“I have: A BIT OF TIME”

“I have: PLENTY OF TIME”

I am reading that on several pages of  THE AUCKLAND GUIDE 2011-2012.

The itineries for visitors to WAIHEKE ISLAND for example with “no time, a “bit of time,” and  “plenty of time” are outlined.

Waiheke Island

I am reading about that bright idea just now and three classes of people are coming to my mind:

1.  PEOPLE WHO HAVE “NO TIME” FOR GOD.

2.  PEOPLE WHO HAVE “A BIT OF TIME” FOR GOD,  AND

Waiheke Island

3.  PEOPLE WHO HAVE “PLENTY OF TIME” FOR GOD.

How much time do you have for the God who created you?

The funeral I attended today reminded me again of the verse in the BIBLE where it says:

“For the wages of sin is death,

BUT GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.” 

– Romans 6:23