“Talking about independence is one thing – being truly independent is another,” says the advertisement I saw this afternoon in the magazine called FAMILY CARE, Issue 28, in our local library.

An INVACARE PEGASUS SCOOTER is advertised

DEPENDABILITY

and the cost is only $3,995 including GST. There is also a photo of the scooter.

Coming out of the library I am encouraged to vote for DEPENDABILITY in the upcoming Local  Body Elections in October.

From what I read inside the library and from what I read outside the library it seems to me, that I can choose between “being truly independent” and “dependability”. Do I get that right?

But I have learnt already long ago that we cannot choose between being independent and being dependent.

We are dependent beings. We are dependent on God. We are not self-existent.

ONLY GOD IS SELF-EXISTENT! 

“Do not let your eyes, which are soon to see the King in His beauty, become the windows of lust.” – C. H. Spurgeon

Conservation Week

8-15 September 2013

Our generation has the awesome task to look after the next generation.

THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION SAYS :

In a Department of Conservation publication I am reading this question in Maori, “Hutia te rito o te harakeke. Kei hea to Komako e ko?” And here is the question in English, “If you pluck out the centre of the flaxbush, where will the bellbird sing?”

We have special places in our country. We have special plants. We have special animals in New Zealand.

We must look after them. We must preserve them. It is up to us to look after them for the next generation, for our families, our children and their children.

This is what Dr Bill Ballantine says,”We need beauty, variety, naturalness and quietness merely to stay human. We have a duty to preserve good examples, for the future, of what still exists. No amount of money or regret can replace extinct species, habitats or ecosystems.” 

THE BIBEL SAYS:

We have the commands of the LORD. We have the decrees of the LORD. We have the laws of the LORD. You find the ten commandments in Exodos, the second book of the  Bible in chapter twenty. Please read Exodus 20:1-17! 

We are not only told to observe them, but to teach them to the next generation. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 4:9, “Teach them to your children and to their children after them.” Deuteronomy 11:19 says, “Teach them to your children, …” Deuteronomy 6:7 says that we are to impress the command, namely to love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength, on our children.

How do we do that?

By talking about the commands. By tying the commands as symbols on our hands. By binding them on our foreheads. By writing them on the doorframes of our houses and on our gates.

Let us also remember that obedience is commanded!  

The most important thing is to teach the next generation about God, because people who believe in God are more likely to look after the things God has given them!

THE CROSS

“‘Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 

Mark 4:3-9 

Intr: 

As he was scattering the seed,

1.  some fell along the path,

and the birds came and ate it up.

(Mark 4:15)

2.  Some fell on rocky places,

where it did not have much soil.

It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered, because they had no root.

(Mark 4:16-17)

3.   Other seed fell among thorns,

which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.

(Mark 4:18-19)

4.  Still other seed fell on good soil.

It came up, grew and  produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even hundred times.'”

(Mark 4:20)

End:

“Then Jesus said, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear.'”

CONSERVATION WEEK

8 – 15 SEPTEMBER 2013

“WE NEED BEAUTY, VARIETY, NATURALNESS AND QUIETNESS MERELEY TO STAY HUMAN. WE HAVE A DUTY TO PRESERVE GOOD EXAMPLES, FOR THE FUTURE, OF WHAT STILL EXISTS. NO AMOUNT OF MONEY OR REGRET CAN REPLACE EXTINCT SPECIES.” – Dr Bill Ballantine