THE CROSS

“Has any god ever tried to take for himself

Deuteronomy 4:34

Intr.:

one nation out of another nation,

1.  by testings,

2.  by miraculous signs and

3.  wonders,

4.  by war,

5.  by a might hand and

6.  an outstretched arm,

7.  or by great and awesome deeds,

End:

like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes.”

“Put it into practice,” says Tip # 1. (There are altogether 12 tips)

I am holding the 365 Day Bible Reading Plan called “Path light” from  Scripture Union and the New Zealand Bible Society in my hands.

“Put it into Practice” is very much on my mind. The fact is that the theme “Put it into Practice” has been on my mind for a long time.

We are reading a lot. Some people are reading the Bible a lot.

We are learning a lot when we are reading. We are learning a lot when we are reading the Bible.

But are we living what we are learning? Are our lives transformed, changed?

What a challenge it is to live what I have learned already and what I am going to learn.

But when I am living what I am learning my life is transformed, changed.

And I want to live what I am learning!

Please read what the Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 7:24-28 about people who put his words into practice and people who do not put his words into practice.

Today I attended the monthly Age Concern meeting at the Kaitaia Baptist Hall with Lonneke Botello at 10.00am.

She is a clinical nutritionist and spoke on the theme:

“HOW TO MAINTAIN  GOOD BONE HEALTH”.

“Trying new things in South Dunedin,” is the article called. (RISE: Issue 26 – March 2014, page 23)

“We are really failing our young people. As a community, we need to take a different, more coordinated and collaborate approach,” the reader is told in the middle of the writing.

“We are really failing our young people.”

On the same page we are also told that the attendance at school is not not as it should be, that young people commit crimes, that they use alcohol and drugs.

Our greatest failure is that we don’t approach our young people with the commandments  of the Bible.

VIRTUE CHRISTIAN CENTRE: Young People Washing Cars

An expert in the Jewish Law asked the Lord Jesus Christ, “‘Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?'”

And what did the Lord Jesus Christ answer?

“Love the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one. And this is, ‘Love others as much as you love yourself.’ All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments.” (New Testament in Contemporary English, CEV)

We don’t tell the young people about the commandments of the Bible because we have not been told what God commands of us.

“Trying new things …”

Do you know the hymn “Tell me the old, old story?”

Here is the refrain:

“Tell me the old, old story,

tell me the old, old story,

tell me the old,old story,

Of Jesus and His love.”