THANK YOU EVERYONE!! (article 9)

A HUGE ‘Thank you’ to all who have contributed a testimony to blog.ivanrudolph.com — or have encouraged me by telling me you have found them helpful. I have learnt a great deal from your experiences with God and your insights — and my personal relationship with God has developed and widened as a consequence. It has been thrilling — no-one can read your testimonies and not know that a personal and loving God exists — and I appreciate your contribution to my expanded understanding of Him.! After all, I am going to live with Him forever as a member of His family — so the closer our relationship on earth the better my afterlife.

I must soon bring my blog to an end, but my intention is that each of you may consider setting up a similar blog, hopefully a lot simpler, as a service to any church or Christian group you know about or of which you are a part. Not only will that help each reader of your blog to know God better, it will also expand your own knowledge and relationship with Father, Son and Holy Spirit — and with the members of any group you attend. Getting to know one another on a spiritual level is far more important than the other levels we all toy with, and which our modern world drives us towards. 1John2:16,17 summarises these influences:

For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — comes not from the…