“COURAGE LOST,  EVERYTHING LOST.”

 Sometimes we are reading things and hearing things and don’t get the meaning, the full meaning. Maybe it happens even quite often.

It happened to me long ago in Germany, and when I say long ago, I mean long ago. The above translated into German is: “Mut verloren, alles verloren.” If I remember correctly it is part of a poem or rhyme, I had to learn from memory while going to school. The summary of that poem is that you can lose the “lot,” but if you lose your courage, you have lost everything, really everything.

I am actually glad that the poem is still on my mind.

Now, recently I came across: “You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.” Those words were not long ago such a blessing to me, that I repeated them again and again and I can say them now from memory. In fact I got  so excited about them that I mentioned them to others.

And they are a blessing now.

They were a blessing this morning, when I waited for someone to come home, so that I could go out. When I waited and waited, I was thinking: “You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.”

“Mut verloren, alles verloren,” (“Courage lost, everything lost.”) I am learning more and more what that means, or have a grasped the full meaning already?

Do you know what? “You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him, fits every situation.

“Courage lost, everything lost!”

A young man came towards me and shook my hand and thanked me warmly, while I was sitting in the coffee shop enjoying my cup of coffee.

Eventually I caught on why all this was happening.

Some time before I had picked up a mobile phone from under one of the tables and handed it in to the proprietor of the shop.

The owner of the mobile phone was gone, but before I left the coffee shop I mentioned to another customer that I forgot to tell the young man why he got his phone back. It was not only because “honesty is the only policy,” but because I am one who fears God.

And one more thing: While drinking my coffee it came to my mind that it would be really good to see the lost phone returned to the rightful owner. 

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“Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” – Matthew 6:8

We are using the milk from cows as a food. We are doing the same with the milk from goats. Butter, cheese and more is made of milk.

Truck delivering milk to the shops

Milk feeds and nourishes our body.

Milk is compared with the Torah (law), with the word of God.

The law, the Bible, feeds and nourishes the soul.

I don’t think we need encouragement to feed our body, but I think we need lots of encouragement to feed our soul.

In First Peter 2:2,3 it says,

“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” (NIV)

How do we grow up in our salvation?

Does Peter give us the answer in his second letter? In Second Peter 1:5 he mentions the things we must add to our faith.

Here they are:

1. goodness, 2. knowledge, 3. self-control, 4. perseverance, 5. godliness, 6. brotherly kindness, 7. love.

And let us always remember what the Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 4:4:

“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth  out of the mouth of God.” (Authorized Version)

“FRESH MILK”

“FUEL FOR LIFE”

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