15th September 2024
The sign of Jesus
"Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher,
we want to see a sign from you.”"
Matthew 12:38NIV
When the Pharisees saw Jesus healing the sick, they asked him for a sign.
When they saw him casting out evil spirits, they asked him for a sign.
When he promises to hold them accountable on the day of judgment for
every hurtful word they have spoken, they asked him for a sign.
When he accuses them of their unbelief, they also ask him for a sign.
They still fail to realize that his healing works, his convicting speech - and
his life as a whole are all signs from God that he was the savior who was
to come.
The unbeliever today also asks for signs to be sure of his son. But for
every sign the unbeliever receives through the word, through the testimony
and through life, the unbeliever asks for a renewed sign: "He answered, “A
wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it
except the sign of the prophet Jonah. " Matt.12:39NIV
Men of Nineveh received the faith of repented after Jonah's speech. Will
Nineveh men on the day of judgment come forward and condemn us for
our unbelief - we who had Jonah's sign confirmed through the life and
work of Jesus.
If the death and resurrection of Jesus is not enough to show God's grace
and love towards sinners, then no other sign will be given to us. We have
Moses and the prophets and the word of Jesus. Through the Word, the
Holy Spirit will give us faith in Jesus. If we search for God in the word,
we find him in Jesus, because no one comes to the Father except through
the son. Only through faith in Jesus can we have our sins forgiven by God.
Jesus' most important mission for you who ask for a sign is to say: It is
finished, salvation is fully ripe, "For God so loved the world that he gave
his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but
have eternal life.”
14th September 2024
The Gospel
”For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that
brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the
Gentile.”
Rom. 1:16NIV
There was one thing Paul felt called to do above everything else, and that
was to preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to high as well as low,
the great and the small, and at all times. He wasn't ashamed of doing that.
Nor should we be ashamed to remind people of the gospel, for it is truly
the most valuable of all things and it retains its value when all else passes
away. Paul had this as his life's task at all times to present the gospel to
others.
To do this for our school children has been the teacher's most important
task from the very first time, and there are many who, in special moments,
at any rate, remember with thanksgiving what they received through the
gospel while they were at school. There is much that forces its way on the
school in our time and some of this we cannot avoid, because it is
necessary to be able to cope in society, but the gospel is as necessary today
as it was then, and therefore it should make us feel deeply grateful for
those who were not ashamed to bring the gospel into our schools.
Bringing this message forward in our homes, to our children and to our
youth and indeed to all of our people is perhaps more necessary today than
ever before, now so much that destroys and breaks down washes over us,
where the youth often feel at a loss and powerless and need something
healthy and good, something that gives power and strength.
This gospel contains something of the greatest importance for our entire
existence on this planet and for our eternal destiny. Paul says in 1 Cor.15:
"For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures,"
This is the gospel: Christ died for us and rose again according to the
Scriptures. In Jesus Christ, God has created for us a way out of the land of
sin and death and into eternal life. God has carried out his salvation plan
and therefore the human race has the opportunity to live a true human life
with hope of eternal life with God, where there is no more sin, death and
devil. Everything that makes life here on earth so scary and difficult, well,
it no longer exists there.
This gospel calls us to a life of faith, hope and love. Faith, because it
connects us to Jesus and his work of salvation. Hope, because in faith in
Jesus Christ we know that as he rose we shall also rise. Love because he
loved us first without making any difference and therein lies a calling to us
to do the same.
However, the Gospel is not only a calling, but is also God's power for
salvation for everyone who believes. After all, it is God himself who
works in his spirit through the gospel. Time and time again you experience
this power – how it raises the fallen, strengthens the weak, comforts the
mournful, creates new life. - Even those who mourn and miss today, those
who in our time have driven themselves to the ground, the gospel is God's
power for salvation. Nothing else on earth can hold us up like Him. That is
why we will not be ashamed of the gospel either.
Hoegni Poulsen
13th September 2024
Three kinds of people
”“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy
and my burden is light.””
Matthew 11:28-30NIV
Kai Jensen, Danish bishop says:
"There are three kinds of people: those who say they believe, those who
say they don't believe and those who ask how they can possibly come to
believe. These last mentioned are undoubtedly many in numbers, but
unfortunately there are many of these seekers who never come to church.
Either they end up in religious desolation or this search dies in them.
The words of Augustine about the human heart, which has no rest until it
finds peace in God, are always true.
Man is the same helpless creature who lives in debt and must die someday.
But the Lord says: "Come to me ... and I will give you rest."
12th September 2024
Bible verses in our day?
”All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me
I will never drive away.”
John 6:37NIV
Isn't it old-fashioned to memorize verses these days? Many parents and
teachers have told how Bible verses have been blessings for the children.
In Copenhagen I taught a children's Bible group of about 20 children. One
day a girl came to me and said what a certain Bible verse had meant to her.
"At school I go and repeat the above John 6:37. She had seen the value in
being able to always come to Jesus.
We have experienced that children who had only participated a few times
had already learned a Bible verse, which later came to bear fruit for them.
People we met later still remembered the Bible verse they learned as
children in the Bible class.
Krestin explains the following: "I could mention many examples, but I will
settle for this one. One day I walked into a car dealership. There sat a
"rocker" in leather clothes and with a long ponytail. He looked up at me a
couple of times and then he said: “For the Son of Man came to seek and to
save the lost.”” Luke.19:10NIV I just smiled back at him, but he could
undoubtedly read in my face how Amazed I was.
“Yes,” he said, “I have met you once before. You spoke at a family service
and you taught the whole congregation this verse.” - It pleased me to hear
and at the same time, I knew that I had not only taught them that verse, but
that I had also explained it so that they could use it when they needed it."
A mother says: "Last summer we went to a family camp. At the children's
meeting, the children were taught a memory verse from the Bible. Lea was
4 years old at the time. During the 4 days we were there, she said nothing,
but when we got home this came from her mouth: “... because God has
said, “Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my
helper; I will not be afraid...” Heb.13:5NIV
How happy, touched and grateful I was because she remembered God's
word.
I would like to encourage all children's workers to teach the children
memory verses because they are God's truth. Maybe teach them just a few
words a year so they stick in their memory.
"Focus on the child". Effie Campbell translated
11th September 2024
Is there no fire?
“On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were
dismayed and terrified.”
1.Sam.17:11NIV
And
“The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the
bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David,
“Go, and the Lord be with you.”” 1.Sam.17:37NIV
When the distress signal from the "Titanic" echoed in the dark night, the
cargo ship "California" was closest to the accident site.
It would have only taken about an hour to reach the scene at full power.
The captain acknowledged this during the naval hearing in Washington.
But even so, "California" never arrived.
"Why didn't you head for the crash site when you received the wireless
telegram?" Senator Smith asked during the subsequent questioning.
The captain sat writhing on the witness stand. Finally the truth came out:
"Because we feared the icebergs, we lay still there and for that reason we
had also put out the fire and therefore had no steam!"
Therefore, the "California", which could have reached the scene of the
accident before the "Titanic" sank, never reached the scene and therefore
did not save one single human life. No fire – no power – no one saved!
Is this to be your confession before the judgment seat of Christ? - No fire!
10th September 2024
The kingdom of heaven
”“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man
found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and
bought that field.”
Matthew 13:44-50NIV
The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure that a man found. It often
happens that people who have lived their lives away from God suddenly
find Him, just as this man found the treasure. They will become happy,
very happy. They can see that they did not deserve this happiness at all.
They should have received nothing but God's chastening judgment -
eternal damnation.
But as if by chance, they met God one day, and He offered them grace and
the forgiveness of sins. They became so happy that nothing in the whole
world could equal their joy. This joy and happiness surpassed all other joy
and happiness they had known in their sinful lives. They became new
people with a new purpose in life.
Other people see the emptiness of everything worldly and therefore set out
to search for God like the merchant who searched for beautiful pearls.
Through hard and long struggle they finally find it and then they also share
in the joy of the forgiveness of their sins.
The great adversary Paul met God like lightning while other disciples
searched to find him.
As different as we are, we find God in different ways.
We should believe and accept his calling of grace, then in His hour He will
see to it that we get the joy that surpasses all the joys of the world – the joy
of the forgiveness of sins.
And the kingdom of heaven is like a seine net. This applies to all of us,
believers and unbelievers, big and small sinners. But just as in a net where
edible and inedible fish are sorted, so also on the last day there will be a
sorting among those who heard the calling and received the faith and then
those who did not.
My friend, are you looking for God or are you still letting Him look for
you?
Grace thank God he found me
Grace that he won me,
Grace that he carried me home to him.
n.
9th September 2024
Anorexia
“He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.”
Psalm 107.20NIV
When a person gets anorexia, he loses his appetite and feels disgust for all
food. It is mostly young girls who end up with anorexia and in the worst
case it can end in death.
A believing woman in South Africa had two daughters, one of whom
developed anorexia. So what does an unhappy mother do? The mother
says the following:
“The girl was close to dying. She was a high school teacher. A boy was the
reason. She had experienced something terrible, which made her stop
eating.
I said to myself that the Bible undoubtedly has the answer to this and I
found the answer in Psalm 107:18-20: “They loathed all food and drew
near the gates of death. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he
saved them from their distress. He sent out his word and healed them; he
rescued them from the grave.”
This is the anorexia hymn. They stopped eating and destroyed themselves.
But there is a solution: "...he sent out his word and healed them" we just
read this in verse 20. Then I wrote this scripture on small slips of paper,
which I put in every pillowcase, in every dress fold, under the mattress and
in many small items that I found.
But why did I do this? Because God's Word never returns empty. I couldn't
do miracles, but the Word did. Then I proceeded to praise the Lord for
healing and now she is completely healed. Not by might or power, but by
the Spirit of God.”
E.Campbell translated
8th September 2024
Are you looking for peace?
““Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you
rest.”
Matthew 11:28NIV
"If only my soul could be calm and have peace," many individuals say.
In the midst of all our haste and unrest, worry and uncertainty also have a
place in the human mind and heart. We don't take the time to stop and
consider the seriousness of life and what the end might be. People's minds
are kept occupied with both the one and the other and discord grows. The
wear and tear of time makes itself known everywhere and cannot be
tamed.
The high standard of living seems to cause people to simply demand more
and more and it is a race to get more and more of what this world has to
offer. Being modest and frugal do not match our modern times.
The consequences are selfishness and a great urge to demand, means that
people gradually become more outlaws and afraid. Some ask: "Perhaps the
fear is just a new and modern way of expressing fear of life, which lies
hidden deep down in the human being?"
The fear of life often comes when people go the wrong way in relation to
what they feel. Therefore, they toil under a bad conscience. If people live
contrary to their inner feelings, then it cannot but create discord. The result
is depression and a wasted life.
All in all, you would think that some believe that they will always be here
on earth, even if life shows otherwise. The veil of time hides reality from
people's eyes. We often see serious incidents that you would think would
make people stop and feel that the foundations beneath them are being
shaken. The seriousness that such a thing entails is pushed aside for the
outlaw man and the course is not changed.
Our inner longing for peace and security is pushed aside and eventually
stifled. This is how people lose the most precious thing that exists in this
life: that is to “ dwell in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the
shadow of the Almighty.”Psalm 91.1NIV That is the only resting place that
the soul has.
Many say: “If only my soul could be calm and have peace! This constant
unrest and fear is the great misfortune of my life.” The worst of all evils in
our time is to have an outlawed soul. This is what makes people nervous
and robs them of joy.
““Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you
rest.” Matthew 11:28NIV These words from the mouth of Jesus tell us
that there is a place where all people can come and find rest in the midst of
noise and strife.
But there is only one place, and that is with Jesus, the son of man, the Son
of God. He is our peace. He brings his greeting of peace to each weary and
outlawed soul who opens the door of his heart to him. Then the unrest that
filled heart and mind disappears. Unrest and fear are replaced with peace,
silence and joy that cannot be described.
Man must have an anchor point for his soul, a safe anchorage. It cannot be
found in any of the world's items. We must go to God, who is the origin of
all creation and who has the right care for us.
If we put our lives in God's hands and allow Him to lead us, then none of
all the evil we are surrounded by in this world will harm us. No one can
disturb the rest God has given us.
If we want to have balance in the soul and good health, then it is crucial to
find peace with God. People have been lifted out of sickness and
depression after praying and surrendering to God. A life in accordance
with God's will provides powerful protection against the forces that make
hostile attacks against our nervous system. That is why it is so important
and necessary to get in touch with God and get the root of all unhappiness
– sin – removed.
"Living Faith". E.Campbell translated
7th September 2024
God sees you!
“For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy
you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to
them by oath. ”
Deuteronomy 4:31NIV
These three words were sewn and framed by a mother a few years ago and
given to her son who was leaving home and going to boarding school. She
wanted him to have it hanging on the wall in his room so he could
remember that even though the eyes of his father and mother could no
longer follow him, there was someone else whose eyes he could never hide
from. In lonely moments in the room, by the books, in the lessons at
school, in play among friends, in battle, in victory or when he lost, -
always the eyes of God followed him.
God sees you! These words are written over every single human life too.
Never can we hide from God's eyes. What is in these words? Yeah, two
thoughts. In the first place, there is a huge help in this to fight against evil.
We know very well that there is so much that we would neither have done
nor said if God were by our side, just as we as children refrained from
doing and saying so much when our parents were present. These three
words tell us that God is with us – has his eyes on us. There is nothing that
His eyes cannot behold. Try and let this thought come alive for you,
because then you too will come to feel the comfort in it.
Next, there is great comfort to be found in these words. When life meets us
with heavy things – when sorrow and sickness and hardships of other
kinds befall us, so that it is difficult to find a way out of the problems –
when human help and advice do not help much, there is nevertheless one
whose eyes follows us. We are never alone because he does not leave us.
We can leave him - and there are many who do. It's bad, because then they
don't know where to turn for help when things really go wrong. But He
does not leave us.
Edmund in Garði
6th September 2024
In church too often?
“Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is
heard through the word about Christ.”
Rom. 10:17NIV
Every year I have quite a few conversations with relatives after a death. It
is not so rare that I hear the occasional person complaining that during
their life's journey they came to church too rarely.
Strange: but yet I have never met anyone who, face to face with death,
complained that they wasted too much of their lives by going to church.
"Et Ord med på Vejen".E.C
5th September 2024
All will arise
“and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there
will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.”
Acts 24:15NIV
Can anything be more depressing than to follow a dear friend on his last
journey to the grave and then hearing the words that follow the burial:
earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to duset?
But is there anything more hopeful than the last words at the burial: in sure
and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.
The grave will not be the last for the individual person. With his
resurrection, Jesus Christ has determined that all will be resurrected, both
the righteous and the wicked.
Righteous are those who have accepted faith in Jesus while the others are
the wicked.
The resurrection of Jesus has caused the wicked to rise. Jesus says that all
those in the grave will hear his voice. God has given Jesus the power and
authority to call all – both the living and the dead – before his judgment
seat on the day of judgment.
In the Book of Revelation, John tells us something about this day: “And I
saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were
opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead
were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the
dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what
they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.
The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found
written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.” Rev.20:12-
15NIV
This day and hour no one knows. But the Bible says that Jesus is coming
soon, and we should be awake, and those who have slumbered in
indifference and unbelief should wake up, for we will all come before the
Lord Jesus, believers as well as unbelievers - righteous and unrighteous -
whoever wants and the one who doesn't want to.
Therefore, these words: in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to
eternal life, are extremely serious - however reassuring they may otherwise
appear to be.
Indeed, all will rise, but not in the same way.
n.
4th September 2024
Autumn has come
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who
believes in me will live, even though they die;”
John 11:25NIV
Autumn presides. Harvest time is the time when the crops have become
ripe, when the herbs and flowers fade, when the fruits are harvested. The
harvest shows us so clearly that everything here on earth is perishable and
has its time. Human life also has its time, its harvest day. The almighty
God has measured each of us humans a time. Nothing is more certain than
that one day God will send his angel to cut my thread of life and one day
yours too. Some of us are get an urgent message and some are taken a little
apart at first. It can be heavy and often discouraging, but we should know
that this is God's work and he always has the best in mind.
In all the circumstances of our lives - in joy and in sorrow, Jesus has given
us these blessed words about himself: "... “I am the resurrection and the
life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;”. Let the
angel of death call our loved ones away from us - we should cling to our
Christian hope: that whoever believes will never die forever. The apostle
Paul says: “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Phil.1:21NIV.
And one of the church fathers says: just let the enemy take my life, they
cannot harm my soul. Death is the last enemy for all of us, but it can do
nothing to him who believes, because Jesus Christ has with his death won
for each of us an eternal life at home in God's eternal dwellings. At the
resurrection and the eternal life, to which she replies: Yes! God grant that
you like her can answer yes to the same question from Jesus - then death
will also be a gain for you.
Certainly I know that we humans are born in sin and live in a struggle
against sin and often fall for it, and we would have been in poor condition
with our sin alone on the day of our death. But we have a gracious God to
put all our trust in, and we have a savior who has taken our burden of sin
and who will raise our dead body to eternal life at home - Let us believe in
him!
n.
3rd September 2024
God's bell is calling
“For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the
Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. ”
1.Pet.2:25NIV
It is said that in Aubrac in France, on the dangerous mountains in the area,
in the 16th century there was a monastery where the monks rang the bell
every night for two hours to warn and guide travelers who, in the evening
twilight and in dense fog, that often appeared there, went astray in these
mountains, and of whom many perished. On this bell was written,
"Errantes revoca!" It means: "Shout back those who have gone astray."
My dear reader, this is the message that we want our people to hear today.
You can read anywhere you want in the New Testament, but with many
different notes, one sounds from there: "Errantes revoca!" Call the strays
home again”
We who proclaim and acknowledge the Lord's name would like to ring this
bell. Because it is the harsh truth that the entire human race has gone
astray: "For you went astray like sheep,..." 1.Pet.2,25 you were like sheep
going astray,.
It may be that sometimes during the hardships of the day you can forget
this. But when the dark moments come and the fog descends close around
you feel like you are sitting on the outermost ledge of the mountain, well
then you may feel that you have strayed away from the way, away from
God.
In such moments, it is that God can get a person to speak and lets the bells
ring the gentle gospel tones into your soul: “For the Son of Man came to
seek and to save the lost.” ” Luk.19:10NIV
It is breathtaking to hear the story of all the weary traveling people who,
when the bell was heard between the mountains, regained courage and
strength and followed the sound of the bell and reached there and were
helped.
Should anyone reading this be sitting on the edge of a cliff in hopelessness
and despair, the message from the bell still rings today, proclaiming peace
to the outlaws and hope to the hopeless.
Wish you could hear it in such a way that you said to yourself: “This time
the bell is calling me. I will stand up and follow its sound. I want to return
home to God!”
C. Eliassen
2nd September 2024
The worm – the snake
“So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl
on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:14NIV
Israeli scientists and archaeologists have found evidence that the serpent
originally had feet, as the Bible suggests. The Bible is completely without
error. George Haas, late professor, many years ago found three ancient
petrified snakes in a quarry at Ein Yabrud near Ramallah, north of
Jerusalem.
Now a scientific working group from the "Silberman Institute of Life
Science" has found that these snakes had two anatomically perfect hind
legs, writes the "Jerusalem Post".
The petrified snakes from the quarry at Ein Yabrud - which is perhaps the
most complete and best preserved petrification of snakes in the entire
world - have now become part of the collection of petrifications at "The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem".
But the Bible also has a prophecy about the snake in the future, where it is
said that the snake will no longer be dangerous and poisonous. It will
happen when Jesus comes again to establish his Kingdom of Peace on
earth for a thousand years. Then this will happen according to Isaiah: 11:8-
9: “The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put
its hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my
holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.”
Most scientists who believe the Bible say that the earth was surrounded by
a waterring (in Hebrew: Tehom) that protected people, animals and plants
from destructive rays from space. Therefore, people lived for almost 1000
years before the flood in Noah's day. Certain plants and animals also
became much larger then than they are today.
But when the flood hit, this journey was "blown up" (Genesis 7:11-12),
which mentions Tehom. In the Bible it reads: "In the six hundredth year of
Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all
the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens
were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. "After
this came the semicircle of the rainbow in the sky, as we can see it today
and the radioactive rays gained a greater destructive power when the water
ring (Tehom) no longer protected our globe. Then life expectancy fell
drastically.
Many scientists believe that the atmospheric pressure before the flood was
twice as great as today and the amount of oxygen three times as great.
Scientific experiments have been conducted in a similar atmosphere at the
well-known Texas A&M University, and by Dr. Carl Baugh at the Creation
Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas.
They have found evidence that open wounds heal many times faster than
in our atmosphere. In the spring of 1997, I visited Dr. Baugh in Glen Rose,
where he has built the world's first hyperbaric biosphere tank with the
same atmosphere and the same pressure as it is believed that the earth had
before the flood.
He has now found that the lifespan of a specific fly in such a biosphere is
three times as long and piranha fish have become twice the size of
ordinary ones.
But what arouses the greatest astonishment is that the snake's venom is
changed in its molecules, so that the snake's venom is no longer poisonous
in such a biosphere as existed before the flood. The same experiments
were also conducted at the world famous Texas A&M University.
When venomous snakes live in such a biosphere, "The infant will play
near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s
nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, . ..."
without any damage, as the Bible predicts will happen in the Millennium
in Isaiah 11,8-9.
I have taken the section above from a Norwegian magazine, but some time
ago I was with a class and visited the Rescue Service. In the basement
there they have a machine that divers use when they come up too quickly
from great depths. Then a similar pressure is established in the cabin as
they had when they were in the sea.
The pressure is then gradually reduced and this can take around 8 hours. A
doctor and nurse are always present inside this machine, which looks more
like an oil tank. One thing that has been noticed here is that wounds heal
very quickly if you have been in this machine.
Evidence of Faith. E.Campbell translated
1 September 2024
That's how God is
”“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against
you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ ”
Luke 15:21NIV
The well-known Norwegian revivalist, Albert Lunde, once told how, just
before he was about to embark on a long journey to the United States, he
met an old woman who asked him to try to find her son and give him a
message if came to Boston, where her son lived.
-What should I say? Lunde asked.
- I am afraid that my son over there believes that I am angry with him
because he took everything from me. But if you find him, say that I have
forgiven him everything.
- This is good news to bring. Is there anything else you want me to say to
him?
- Then you can say that I love him just like before, and then he himself
knows...
-Is there more?
- Only if you get the chance, ask him to write.
On the voyage across the Atlantic, Albert Lunde often walked back and
forth on deck and thought about the love of this mother.
But one day he stood with a trembling heart outside her son's door and
knocked.
- I have to greet you from your mother!
- Is mum still alive!
-Yes, and she asked me to tell you that she is not angry with you and that
she has forgiven you everything.
The young man was about to burst into tears when he met the mother's
love through this greeting.
Did mom say anything else? He asked.
-Yes, she asked me to tell you that she loved you just like before. Then you
would know for yourself... and that if she ever heard from you, she would
be very, very happy, I could see that in her.
Just as this mother longed to bring her son a message of her love, so God
also longs to say the same to us: I am no longer angry with you. I have
forgiven you of all your sins. They are atoned for and paid for when Jesus
died on the cross.
But I long to hear from you. When will you come back?
