On January 22, 2012, I posted this entry:

At the present time I am in contact with two Tax Departments, one is here in NZ and the other one in Germany.

The reason why they are in contact with me is that I receive a small pension from Germany since 2005.

Since 2005 I pay tax on my small German pension here in NZ and the payment for the next bill is due at the beginning of February this year.

In 2011 the German Tax Department asked me for the first time to pay tax on my German pension. At the beginning of this year I received tax bills for the years 2005-2010, six in all. The deadline to pay the 6 bills is 5th of March this year.

All this is really bad news  for me and I am only at the beginning of this nasty development.

I promised also at that time to let you know about the outcome.

Here it is:

Only Germany is entitled to collect tax for the pension. All the money I paid here in New Zealand I got back immediately. On top of that Germany is not collecting as much tax as NZ. Only about 50 % of what NZ does!

When I saw “more to love” written on a totally degradable Farmers plastic shopping bag I took my BIBLE and read John 2:15 where its says,

 “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

“Surround yourself with winners”  is strategy six in the book SEVEN STRATEGIES FOR WEALTH AND HAPPINESS by Jim Rohn called. I have just read strategy six. ( The principle of Association)

I really like that. I really like to be together with people I can learn from. And to do that is not all that difficult today. There are books, books and more books and there is the Internet.

I enjoy reading the book called MORNING AND EVENING (Daily Readings) by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

This morning I read there what C.H. Spurgeon says about the promises of God. And I think he has taught me something or at least I find confirmed what I have always believed, namely that all the promises in the BIBLE are for all the saints and I am a saint. All true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are saints!

INFORMATION

In his book THE ROAD AHEAD Bill Gates writes in chapter two about “THE BEGINNING OF THE INFORMATION AGE”. I must read that chapter again.

Information, the right information, is very important!

In a purely WORLDLY MATTER I was eager to do the right thing. Where do you go, if you don’t know what the right thing is? You ask the people who know. That’s what I did. I did not only believe the received information but I acted on it as well for about seven years. But not long ago I found out that the information I believed and acted on was not correct. ( I almost died with the wrong information!)

But we don’t only have to deal with WORLDLY MATTERS but we have also to deal with SPIRITUAL MATTERS.

Where do you get your information when it comes to SPIRITUAL MATTERS?

Let me tell you where  I  found the correct information. The correct information is in the BIBLE, the Word of God. Listen to what the Bible says in

Jeremiah 29:12, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

 And in

John 17:3 we read, “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

If we die with the wrong information when it comes to WORLDLY MATTERS it is bad enough, but if we die with the wrong information when it comes to SPIRITUAL MATTERS there are ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES!

PLEASE DON’T DIE WITH THE WRONG INFORMATION WHEN IT COMES TO SPIRITUAL MATTERS!

“HOW TO MAKE YOUR KIDS MILLIONAIRES!”

I am reading that while walking along Commerce Street here in KAITAIA / New Zealand and passing the newsagent. I am more than interested. Underneath in smaller print it says, “Your complete step-by-step guide.” (“LUCKY BREAK” Magazine, February 27 2012)

Do you want to know how to make your kids millionaires? I will tell you!

TEACH THEM THE BIBLE!

THIS IS WHAT THE PSALMIST SAYS:

This is what he says about the commands of God. And these are his own words,”Because I love your commands more than gold, more than pure gold,…” (Psalm 119:127)

This is what he says about the law from the mouth of God. And here are again his own words, “The law from your mouth is  more precious  to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.” (Psalm 119:72)

THIS IS WHAT COUNT (EARL) ZINZENDORF SAYS:

Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf gave us about 2000 hymns and this is what he says in one hymn about the BIBLE.

He calls the BIBLE a precious gift, a treasure. He says we cannot compare the BIBLE with anything we possess. Nothing matters really to him except the BIBLE!

For those who know German:

“Herr, dein Wort, die edle Gabe, diesen Schatz erhalte mir;

denn ich zieh es aller Habe  und dem groessten Reichtum fuer.

Wenn dein Wort nicht mehr soll gelten, worauf soll der Glaube ruhn?

Mir ists nicht um tausend Welten, aber um dein Wort zu tun.” – Zinzendorf