“YOU ALONE ARE GOD!

2 Samuel 22:32-34

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1.  you are a mighty rock.

2.  You are my strong fortress, and

3.  you set me free.

4.  You make my feet run as fast as those of a deer, and

5.  you help me stand on the mountains.”

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VERSES FROM THE BIBLE IN THE LOCAL PAPER

An ocean steamer has a gyroscope to help stabilize the ship, when the sea is rough. A gyroscope helps the vessel also to maintain a high degree of equilibrium.

GYROSCOPE

Don’t you think it would be a good Idea to have a gyroscope inside us to keep us on an even keel? I think so.

I don’t need to tell you about the storms of life. You probably know them better than I do.

There are the waves of discouragement.

Someone said, “You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.”

There are the waves of bad habits.

“The best way to break a habit is to drop it.”

There are the waves of worry.

Remember, “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

There are the waves of hurts.

Someone said, “Facing your hurts won’t kill you; burying them may!”

Add to the list the waves of sorrow, suffering, temptation and testing – and at the end you have to face the typhoon of death.

When the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts our souls will be kept on an even keel, our souls will be kept in perfect peace and we will be able to live a stable life.

I saw that once happening in Bangkok / Thailand.

First of all I thought, “no that can’t be him,” but it was the missionary whose wife had just died in a traffic accident, walking upright not very far from me.

What a testimony!

“To fish, or not to fish? What a stupid question …”

Is it really a stupid question?

“To fish, or not to fish?”

Peter and his brother Andrew were fishermen and in Matthew 4:19 the Lord Jesus Christ said to them, while they were casting their net into the water, “‘Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.'”

They left their work immediately and followed the Lord Jesus Christ.

How many followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are engaged in Personal Evangelism? How many followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are soul winners?

While waiting in the queue at the local Post Office today to post an item I talked to a lady about spiritual matters.

“Je mehr er hat, je mehr er will,

nie schweigen seine Klagen still.”

For those who don’t know German, here is the meaning of the above in English:  It means simply that the more we have, the more we want. We will always cry for more!

I must have heard it for the first time from my mother in Germany.

“TO HAVE MORE DESIRE LESS”

It seems that we have an excessive desire for everything, for FOOD, for WEALTH, for POWER.

That is actually GREED.

Greedy people make trouble for others, especially those who are experts in being greedy. Greed is actually idolatry. Greedy people have no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Greed is also improper for true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle Peter has this message for the elders in churches: Don’t be greedy for money, but be eager to serve. And the Lord Jesus Christ tells us to watch and tells us to be on our guard against greed. And he says also that there are all kinds of greed.

“To have more, desire less.”

“‘It’s all about the book'”

“‘It’s all about the book,'” I read on the bookmark this morning, when I opened the book called MORNING AND EVENING (Daily Readings) by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

It is just amazing that all of a sudden you notice things that have always been there.

And yes, it is all about the book.

It is all about the source book of our knowledge of God.

The first sentence of the source book of our knowledge of God says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

It is all about the textbook of divine truth.

This is what I read in the textbook of divine truth in the gospel of John, “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.'” (John 14:6)

It is all about the guide book to everlasting life.

In the guide book to everlasting life we read also, “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3)

It is all about the oldest book in existence.

“‘It’s all about the book'”

It is all about “THE BOOK OF BOOKS,” the Bible.

Sir Walter Scott wrote many books. He had also a great library. And this is what he said: “There is but one book, the BIBLE.”

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“The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.” – Mark 1:22

“Guests are like fish, they go off after 3 days.”

What else have I read about guests?

“Be sure to welcome strangers into your home. By doing this, some people have welcomed angels as guests, without even knowing it.”

“Guests are like fish …”

That’s what it says in the BOOK OF BOOKS.

Abraham and Lot welcomed angels.

You can read the story of Abraham in the first book of the Bible, in Genesis 18:2.

You find the story of Lot also at the beginning of the Bible in Genesis 19:1.

The Bible, THE BOOK OF BOOKS, tells us to “practice hospitality” … “without grumbling” not only for a short time, but also for longer periods.

That is of course a challenge for some of us!