My best Investment

I have been trying to get back to my blog for weeks with no success. Life has been hectic and there is no end in sight in the near future for me that it will tone down to a calmer state. I last wrote just before the Easter weekend. After the shocking news of the murder of Eugene Terreblanche, I thought “This is something to blog about!” Then the controversy concerning the Julius Malema saga, of the song “Shoot the Boer.” I have never heard the song myself, do not even know what the words are, only that they are to shoot us, the Boers (farmers). I decided to find the song on the Internet, and when I did, my first reaction was HUH??? It made no sense, had absolutely no message for the nation. I then decided to count how many times the words "shoot, shoot, the boer" were in the song. WOW – 20 times! I refused to count the times "shoot, shoot" was used - there were too many. Other words in the song? - minimal. 99% of the song is "shoot, shoot, shoot,shoot, shoot the Boer." I was convinced this would make a great blog, but life throws many issues along one's path and the direction changes.

Enough has been said regarding the ET and Malema issues, negative and alarming statements have been made injecting fear into the hearts of many South Africans regardless of race or colour. We have two choices in life - to grow bitter or better. I chose the latter. I have decided to be positive, regardless. I have come to the conclusion that bad news sells; good news is not as exciting. No wonder that the Good News of our Saviour is so easily discarded. Write a book about the dark side - demons, vampires, ogres, werewolves, Satan and the like - and be sure it will become a best seller. In no time it will make it to the big screen. Write a book on goodness, purity, God, Jesus, faith, love, hope - anything that is far from the dark side - and you are rejected time and again to get published. And forget about the big screen! That is life I suppose. Or is it? Is life not what we ourselves make of it? I can decide this morning to be grumpy and moody, or I can decide to walk around with a smile on my face and be friendly to each soul that crosses my path. What is your decision today? Everything we decide upon is a choice. My best investment in life has been Jesus. Does that mean nothing bad ever happens to me? No, absolutely not! In fact, a lot of bad things have happened in my life, but, were it not for Him, I would not have made it through the storm. Even reading my blog was a choice you, the reader, made. So I challenge anyone who reads this: Will you grow bitter, or better? You decide.

Easter - A Time to Remember

It is Easter! Walk into any shop, and the shelves are dressed out in shiny chocolate bunnies & bright coloured Easter eggs. It is a long weekend, and many sigh a great relief at the thought of a quick getaway for a few days, albeit a short one. Children squeal with laughter at the thought of the Easter Egg Hunt they will embark on over the weekend.

Highways are jammed, as families rush out of the cities for a long needed break. This is the one public holiday of the year, in which many people loose their lives on the road. Thousands of buses, taxis, trucks and motor cars, take the journey to Polokwane in the Limpopo Province, where the Zionists have their annual Easter Conference. I hear this year is their hundredth anniversary, so it should be a major event. Metropolitan traffic police are on high alert, and the news media warns that they will show no mercy to those who break the law, in speeding and drunken driving.

Amid all the turmoil, and rushing to and fro, I stop, and think, and wonder … how many of us remember what this time is really all about? The One who should be remembered, honoured and praised is pushed aside, made an outsider while mankind indulges in his own selfish pleasures.

This is the time to remember, our Lord and Saviour, who willingly gave His life, to die on a cross that we, may be saved. This is the time, to be thankful that Salvation is free to us, that we can have the gift of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

This is the time, to remember that through His death, and resurrection, we have life eternal! This is the time to remember His unconditional love For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him should not perish but have everlasting life.