THE CROSS

“Give everyone

Romans 13:7,8

Intr.:

what you owe him:

1.  If you owe taxes, pay taxes;

2.  if revenue, then revenue;

3.  if respect, then respect;

4.  if honor, then honor.

End:

Let no debt remain outstanding, …”

SUNSET IN HIHI/NEW ZEALAND

“LIVING NEAR THE CROSS OF CALVARY YOU MAY THINK OF DEATH WITH PLEASURE, AND WELCOME IT WHEN IT COMES WITH INTENSE DELIGHT.” – C. H. Spurgeon

We are on our way to HIHI along the East Coast in the Far North of New Zealand:

“where journeys begin”

We are driving along the East Coast

We are driving along the East Coast

We are in HIHI

Hihi

Hihi

Hihi

Hihi

Hihi

We stayed one night in HIHI

I am asking myself now the question, “What am I powered by?”

Power Lines

On my computer it says “powered by Ask” and yesterday walking on the mainstreet here in Kaitaia, I saw two cars which had stickers starting with “Powered by …”

“Powered By MediaWiki,” I read yesterday in the evening on the screen of my computer.

Not too many days ago I received two emails telling me about the death of people. One email was from Germany and it said that a servant of the Lord I knew had gone home.  Thinking about “had gone home” made me look up what I read some time ago in the book GOOD IN EVERYTHING by H. L. Gee. On page 198 he is quoting the Rev. William J. May, who said, “In a quiet churchyard in Sussex is a simple grave which bears this lovely inscription: Gone home with a friend.”

Do you know what I am actually powered by?

I AM POWERED BY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT I AM ON MY WAY HOME.

And what a power that is!

The knowledge that I am on my way home gets me through everything, really everything.

I rejoice with the hymnwriter who gave us the hymn: “Going home, going home, I’m just going home.” (William A. Fisher ed. Lindsay Smith)