“Let me drop everything and work on your problem,” I am reading on the coaster. There are kind people who do that. I experienced that just this morning. The BIBLE says “LOVE IS PATIENT AND KIND;…”

In the magazine BOOKNOTES  David Veart  is writing “on the love affair between New Zealanders and their cookbooks.”

“Bringing books and people together,” it says on the front page of the same magazine.

It seems that it is easy to bring cookbooks and people together. But it is not so easy to bring the BIBLE and people together.

Let us remember that we don’t live by bread alone. The BIBLE says in Matthew 4:4 “‘Man cannot live on bread alone, but needs every word that God speaks.'”

“The DEBT will be passed on to the Next GENERATION.”

That’s what I remember hearing over the radio today.

 WE ARE VERY KEEN TO PASS ON OUR DEBT TO THE NEXT GENERATION.

Let us remember again what it says in Romans 13:8

“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.”

BUT WE ARE NOT KEEN AT ALL TO PASS ON THE BIBLE TO THE NEXT GENERATION.

We are told to declare the power of God to the next generation.

Do you know about the power of the Lord in your life?

We are told to commend the works of God to the next generation.

Have you experienced the works of the Lord Jesus Christ in your life?

What are you passing on to the next generation?

Quote:

“What is life?

It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.

It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” – Unknown

The BIBLE:

Like a Shadow – First Chronicles 29:15

Like a Flying Shuttle – Job 7:6

Like a Hurrying Messenger – Job 9:25

Only a Handbreadth in Extent – Psalm 39:5

Like a Weaver’s Web – Isaiah 38:12

Like a Vanishing Vapor – James 4:14

“Fed up of carrying heavy guidebooks?”

I am finding that question in the TNT Magazine on page 19. (May-June 2012 Issue 89)

The advertisement continues: “THEN TNT HAS THE ANSWER

We’ve published our 2012 Independent Traveller’s Guide to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.”

Of course, I am fed up of carrying heavy guidebooks! That is my answer to the above question.

But I am never fed up of carrying the greatest guidebook, the BIBLE. The BIBLE is the guidebook to ETERNAL LIFE!

What is ETERNAL LIFE?

The Lord JESUS CHRIST is the cardinal theme of the BIBLE and he is also the key to understanding it.

He says: (John 17:3)

“Now this is eternal life:

— that they may know you,

the only true God, and

— JESUS CHRIST,

whom you have sent.”

Do you know that you have eternal life? We can know and we must know! Read  John 10:28; First John 5:13

I know that I have ETERNAL LIFE!

“DISCOVER HOW OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SEA HAS SHAPED OUR NATION’S HISTORY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.”

I am reading that in THE AUCKLAND GUIDE 2011-12!

DISCOVER HOW MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING GOD HAS SHAPED MY LIFE’S HISTORY.

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On the cover, front and back, of  THE AUCKLAND GUIDE  2011-12,  I find words like these: “LIVE”, “EMBRACE”, “LOVE”, “EXPLORE”, “REFRESH”, “OASIS”, “ENERGY”, etc !

I am especially interested in the word “OASIS”.

Are you looking for an OASIS? What is an OASIS? The Collins Concise Dictionary says, “a fertile patch in a desert occuring where the water table approaches or reaches the ground surface.”

Water! “Fresh water is the world’s most precious resource.”

Are you looking for Living Water? Are you looking for water which satisfies the deepest needs?

The Lord JESUS CHRIST is the source of Living Water. (John 4:10) In the dictionary I am reading also that an OASIS is:

— a place of peace.

— a place of safety.

— a place of happiness.

“I have: NO TIME”

“I have: A BIT OF TIME”

“I have: PLENTY OF TIME”

I am reading that on several pages of  THE AUCKLAND GUIDE 2011-2012.

The itineries for visitors to WAIHEKE ISLAND for example with “no time, a “bit of time,” and  “plenty of time” are outlined.

Waiheke Island

I am reading about that bright idea just now and three classes of people are coming to my mind:

1.  PEOPLE WHO HAVE “NO TIME” FOR GOD.

2.  PEOPLE WHO HAVE “A BIT OF TIME” FOR GOD,  AND

Waiheke Island

3.  PEOPLE WHO HAVE “PLENTY OF TIME” FOR GOD.

How much time do you have for the God who created you?