As I have mentioned before, I like to answer questions like that!

I found this one in The New Zealand Herald today, on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

“Where in the world would you rather be?”

“Flight Centre takes you there.”

It is a full page advertisement in the paper,  and a  number of places are mentioned – with pictures – like Australia, the South Pacific, China, Italy, France, Africa, India and Thailand.  I used to work in Thailand as a missionary from 1966 – 1979. Our wedding took place in Tak in the “land of  the sun” and our two children were born in Thailand.

Once more:  “Where in the world would you rather be?”

I would not want to be anywhere else! Exclamation mark. I am quite happy where I am, here in Kaitaia, in the north of  New Zealand….. and here is a picture from the “real far north” of New Zealand.

Why I am quite happy, where I am? Because a hymn comes to my mind. I know it only in the German language. (I am from Germany.)

I will give you the gist of the hymn, and you will understand.

The hymn is by Eleonore von Reuss and she lived from 1835-1903. It is a very old hymn as you can see. You find it in the hymn book of the Baptists in Germany called “Glaubensstimme”. It has five short verses.

Eleonore says in the hymn, that she has been through the world and that she has seen how beautiful it is – but she is yearning for something else. She has seen the people, how they are working and how troublesome the life can be. She says the people are  looking for love, luck, honour, and they are coming back dissatisfied and loaded with sin.

In verse four she sings about the rest there is for the  poor and tired heart.  She says, proclaim that there is a place where we can go with our grief, our hurts and our pain.

The last verse  sings about the rest for all  mankind in the finished work of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on the Cross of Golgotha.

“‘My food,’ said Jesus, ‘is

to do the will of him who sent me and

to finish his work.’”

John 4:34

“As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.”

John 17:18

(John 20:21)

WHAT IS OUR FOOD?

Just now I listened to some really good teaching of the Bible by Dr. S Lewis Johnson on Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.

Go to:

www.believerschapeldallas.org

Online messages

Dr. S Lewis Johnson

Dr.  S Lewis Johnson’s exposition of  Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians

Ephesians 1:1-4   Paul’s Grandest Epistle

“A lot of  kneeling will keep you in good standing.”

“A giant oak is a little acorn that held its ground.”

People want us to trust them.

I remember reading that lately and I am reading it just now again: “Trust us to build a home this good.” That is a big advertisement on one of the pages of one of our local papers. Underneath the writing is the picture of the most beautiful big home.

It is a Platinum Homes Northland ad and it says also that Platinum Homes are “a different class of home” and that “there is quality throughout.”

I trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and what He says in  John 14:1-4:

Click on John 14:1-4 and find the verses!

Click on one of the books of the Bible……until you get there!

“This is what the Lord says:  ‘Cursed is the one who trusts in  man,…’” – Jeremiah 17:5

What a surprise it was and joy today to see the newspaper in one of the restaurants and read “Everyone falls short of God’s perfect standard”.

My own copy of  “The Northern Advocate” is now here before me with the above article written by Greg Bedwell, the pastor of the Kamo Baptist Church.

(“Perceptions of  Faith with Greg Bedwell”)

What a way to spread the GOOD NEWS!

Who knows how many copies of  “The Northern Advocate” are being sold ?

“THERE ARE NO TRAFFIC JAMS FOR THOSE WHO GO THE EXTRA MILE.”