Faith and Humility

The Absence of Christ


 I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it has some nourishing virtue in it, and gives sap to humility, and puts an edge on hunger, and furnishes a fair field to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping what it does not see.

Samuel Rutherford

I got to think over this quote. It might come as a surprise to us (it definitely was to me) that the absence of Christ  and his presence both benefit us in one way or the other. 

Paulo + Northland = Move to NZ

Praise the LORD, this week I could finally visit the Northland. It was an amazing, superb, great experience. I do not think I have ever seen such beautiful place in my life. Pictures follow:

Hymn of the week 08 - There is a fountain

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.

As the Scriptures says...

I remember one day, I asked the little congregation, "Who of you believes in Jesus Christ?" Then I did something which I normally avoid. I said, "I would like those of you who believe in Jesus to raise their hands." Of course there wasn't a single person who didn't raise his hand. So I said, "Look, we have to face things squarely. Jesus says if we believe in Him, as the Scriptures say, then rivers of living water will flow out of our lives. Now let me ask you a personal question: Are there rivers of living water flowing out of your lives?"

"No!" they said.

"Does that mean that you don't believe in Jesus?"

"But we are sure that we believe in Jesus. We have accepted Christ, we surrendered our lives to him. We can't doubt that," they replied.

"Well, if that's the way it is, then we are either deceiving ourselves, or the words Jesus said aren't true."

Pictures of March

This post is at least 7 days late. I know... But better late than never!

Those are random pictures taken last month:

Hunger...