Von Rom zu Christus

Sometimes we are sitting on treasures and are not aware of it.

There are two books in my library. I don’t know for long I have had them and who gave them to me. All I know that I did not buy them.

The books are about Pilgrimages from Rome. The books contain 5o testimonies how Catholic Priests find the TRUTH.

Those books are real treasures and I am asking myself, “Why did you not read them long ago?

“Let’s get together with nature” and “Nature is our best friend,” I am reading on the spare car tire which is fastened to the back of the car. (From memory.)

My best friend is the creator of nature, the Lord Jesus Christ! Let’s get together with God!

“Plan your next escape, today!”

The advertisement encourages me to plan my escape, to plan my next escape, to plan my next escape today.

One suggestion is to go to Sydney and another to go to Bali. Underneath both flights it says, “Hurry, sale ends 5PM tomorrow!”

Can I plead with you to go to God.

“Escape”

The Bible says in  Psalm 68:20:

“Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.”

We are sinners.

“…, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, …” – Romans 3:23

We are going to die.

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 6:23

Please accept the gift of eternal life.

Psalm 95:7,8 says:

“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden you hearts …”

The life of many people ends tomorrow! And you don’t know when you are going to die.

For almost 25 years we worked as missionaries in Kaikohe (United Maori Mission) and the folllowing was written during that time in a letter to my friends in  Germany:

Die Zeitung THE WHANGAREI LEADER wird umsonst in unseren Briefkasten gesteckt und da stand drin Mitte Dezember 1997 auf der Titelseite:

RAY VERKAUFT KEINE ZIGARETTEN, DENN ER IST EIN VON NEUEM GEBORENER CHRIST. (Auch ein Bild von ihm war dabei.)

So etwas ist noch nie vorgekomen an den Tankstellen von Neuseeland. Denn der neue Besitzer der Tankstelle am Wasser von Whangarei (BP Tankstelle), verkauft keine Zigaretten mehr.

Ray Yang kaufte die Tankstelle an der Ecke von Robertstrasse and Johnstrasse am 1.12. 1997 und raeumte alle Zigaretten weg von den Ragalen, denn er sagte: “Die zerstoeren den Leib von den Menschen.”

Herr Yang, der 32 Jahre alt ist und vor fuenf Monaten nach Neuseeland kam, sagt, dass Gott nicht sehr beeindruckt ist von Mennschen, die rauchen.

“Ich bin ein wahrer Christ und jeden Tag bete ich fuer alles und ich mag nicht Sachen verkaufen, die den Koerper zerstoeren,” sagte er.

Aber wie steht es denn mit den Leuten die Petroleum riechen?

Seine Antwort: “Man kann leben ohne zu rauchen, aber wir koennen nicht leben ohne Benzin fuer unsere Fahrzeuge.”

Mr. Yang arbeitete in Korea als ein aeronautical engineer fuer Korean Airlines und er war hier dreimal im Urlaub und entschied sich, dann ganz nach hier umzusiedeln.

Er sagt: “Seoul hat 10 Millionen von den 45 Millionen Leuten, die in Suedkorea leben und da ist zu viel Verkehr fuer mich.” (Much traffic jam.)

FOOD FOR THE SOUL

Oscar Wilde says, “Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

There is one book I love more than any other book and that is the Bible. The fact is actually that you cannot compare the Bible with any other book.

The Bible is a book that is alive for me. That has not always been so, but the Bible became alive for me, when I was eighteen years of age.

But I had a problem with reading the Bible from cover to cover. I read here a little bit and there a little bit. It was all a bit scrappy.

But my desire was to read the Bible like any other book, from the first page to the last page, all 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation.

Without going into details, let me just tell you that all my resolutions did not help!

But all of a sudden a miracle happened. I call it a miracle. There was one year when I read the Bible from cover to cover twice. When I say from cover to cover I mean it, every word!

I am thinking here especially about the first nine chapters of the book called First Chronicles!

And from then on I read the Bible each year from the first page to the last page at least once.

I AM WRITING THIS TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THE SAME!

And do you think I have a bank account in Heaven. I leave it to you to answer that question!