We couldn't help everyone in need but we can speak kind words to the people we know."I can understand .Don't worry" is not just a word its a pill for those who struggling with their life even though you couldn't understand them at least don't judge or criticize them or their problem.Almighty God watches everything remember.

How long is eternity?

               I read a story somewhere to explain the unmeasurable time period of eternity.There is a Land in a far away North called Svithjod.There stands a mighty rock which is few hundred miles high and few hundred miles wide.Once in a every thousand years a little bird came up there  to sharpen its beak.When the rock worn away(due to the sharpening of its beak!)then a single day of eternity will have gone by.
            seems like its not going to end.Are we ready to live a eternal life with Jesus?If we could not lead a pure life for atleast 60-70 years in this world remember how could we live there with a pure mind and soul eternally?
          No one with a dirty mind(rarely,occasionally,sometimes,often- these words doesn't work with God.)can enter the kingdom of God.Our Living God doesn't change today tomorrow and forever and in eternity there is no grace period to fall back in sin and crying bucket of tears for forgiveness.There is no angel standing in front of the Gate to Heaven spreading a magical wand around your(our) head and make us pure in soul instantly.Purity is something we must practice in this world.If we live with Jesus here in our Life span (i.e)60-70 years,he will be ready to live with us there in his Life span (i.e) Eternity.Afflictions we face in this earth is not equal to the glory we will obtain in Heaven. In Revelation 22:11,12 Bible says

"Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy."

"Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done".

Amen,Come Lord Jesus

Grace Vs Self-righteous

               Self righteous is always against God's Grace.It always says "God see what I did for you?"Why God accept the sacrifice of Abel and not pleased with Cain.Cain is the First-born son of Adam and Eve.Cain's name means"possesion". Farming the land is not a easy Job, It requires lot of hard work.One must remember there is no rainfall on those days(Genesis 2:5,6).Cain must plan the irrigation for his farming Land.God created Adam told him to take care of the Eden ,Tend  and Guard it.Serpent sneaked in and beguiled them using their carelessness.They bring forth the curse to all the human kind ,God prophesied them about seed of woman who crush all the curse over them.Then they were clothed with the skin of animals by God.
               Cain knew all about this was so careful about tilling his land.I wonder still there is no passage saying Adam started to plough the Ground,It was Cain who set up a First -Farm.He is also careful to bring his first harvest as sacrifice.Cain's heart thought about the carelessness of his daddy and how it brings punishment from God.So,he try to please God by his own efforts.
            He tend and take care of the Farm.He respects the Lord by bringing the sacrifice first and first quality of his harvest .Still He got rejected.Abel was a sheep Farmer his heart was fixed in the mercy of God ,How he clothed his Father and Mother by sacrificing a animal.He understood that God forgave his father and mother  because of his grace.He clothed and protect them because of his sheer grace not by any efforts made by their parents.
             When ever Abel sacrifice a sheep before the Lord he remembered his loving kindness ,his prophesy of messiah and through messiah how he going to get the eternal life.Therefore Abel sacrificed a sheep in remembrance of the First clothing God gave to the human kind.God accepted Abel's Sacrifice and rejected Cain because he tried to please God through his own efforts.
            Abel understood that after the light had taken away from human kind only God's Grace will clothe them.God too remember his Grace for mankind.Cain made a big mistake by approving the efforts of his parents who cloth themselves with fig tree leaves that is not sufficient to cover them.What's the use of remembering our own deeds before God like pharisee? .Cain couldn't see the effort of God taken for sake of them.He can only see what he can do.In contrary Abel could see what God did for them and grateful for that.No wonder God accepted Abel over Cain.

Our biggest enemy

            Self-righteousness is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
    -Robert murray Mccheyne
   
             Who is our  enemy ?Of course every one will answer in one voice saying Satan is our  enemy. 
Do we know that we are the biggest enemy of ourselves? We know thousands of ways to please our self.If we are rich enough ,we easily depend on our money. If we are clever and intelligent we depend on our mind for solving our problems,If we are healthy and strong enough we  forget to thank God and like to spend our time entertaining us.How much we like to make ourselves happy ?How much we like to show ourselves as religious and content when others approve our  Pharisees acts.Our self is the veil which hides the face of the LORD.Do you ever wonder why all this suffering  and humiliation even after we accepted Jesus Christ?One of the causes, our Lord may be trying to peel our self away from us.
          Self makes you the little God and hinder you from looking towards Father in Heaven.It always says you  are good enough to take care of yourselves.For some of us , get rid of self is the huge problem but some can easily submit themselves to the Lord.
Isaiah 28:27 says,
            For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.

          In order to get the goodness from the grain it must be threshed according to their types. That is, pulse in general, beans, peas, dill, cummin, etc., are easily beaten out with a stick or flail.Some grains need cart wheel to run over and get threshed.
            According to keil and Delitzsch commentary on the old bible says,The punishments and chastisements of Jehovah are the ploughshare and harrow, with which He forcibly breaks up, turns over, and furrows this field. But this does not last for ever. When the field has been thus loosened, smoothed, and rendered fertile once more, the painful process of ploughing is followed by a beneficent sowing and planting in a multiform and wisely ordered fulness of grace.
                          `Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place--unless you repent.(Rev 2:5).So as the bible says
we must check our heart and dedicate us to the Lord.
 In hebrews 12:5-13 The holy bible advices as follows,
  

      "and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed".

        

Mother's love is always a special thing

If you don't know how to respect all people equally, then you better admit that you don't know how to love them as well.

Forgiveness is the way of Life(4)

                    In the previous article we have seen how we came under the influence of fruit of knowledge and how it influencing our emotions till now by feeling good and bad about everything we know.

            The First sin of Adam and Eve is dis obedience to God's Word.In another way,disobedience is nothing but rebellion in disguise.The very same sin Lucifer committed.Satan made eve believe his false words and stripped them off their dominion and the light.Dis obedience to Lord eventually leads us to rebel against him.In Ephesians2:2 it says ,whoever disobeys God and rebels against him  are under the control of devil.Look at the verse. 

            In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God]. 

               May be we can say I am christian,I am saved ,I give tithes and offerings ,even you can do ministry but only we know that whether we are obeying God in all matters.Its so shocking to see amplified bible use the words careless and unbelieving  to imply the word disobedience.

               when we  see how much carelessness and unbelief rooted in our christian lives now it is the cause of all the problems we face.

therefore,we must be careful.In Hebrews 3:12

[Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. 

         Writer of Hebrews said this to the people who were saved in the name of Christ,who begin the journey believing him.Remember all Israelites  who started out their journey from Egypt did not end up in Canaan just because of their unbelieving nature.won't they led by Moses?yes, they were.won't they celebrate pass over? yes ,they were.Won't they see miracles and wonders of God on the way?Yes ,they were,but still they didn't believe God.Therefore  Hebrews 3:19 says

So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out].

          We can see it as a small disobedience but the consequences it lead us is a pit of danger.This disobedience is the plant which has the branches of careless,unwillingness in purpose of God,unbelief At last it will grown into the full tree of rebellion.What will happen to this tree .In Mathew chapter 3:10 John the baptist says,

            And already the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 

             we really should heed the advice of Jesus "Be alert and pray"

Golden words I like

Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How we use our money;
4. What we do with our leisure time;
5. The company we enjoy;
6. Who and what we admire;
7. What we laugh at.”
― A.W.Tozer

                  Everyone knows the destination but very few know the way to reach it.We need a transport ,money , guidance and other miscellaneous things while we are in a journey. We all know God is our ultimate destination.We all have a life after death ,This life is not going to finish in Earth itself.We are in the journey to meet God,to be one with God.How do you make sure if you are in the right path?.
               Jesus is the way to God.when we follow his footsteps we can be so sure that we are in the right path.He is the ladder from Jacob's dream.Through him we receive all blessings and guidance and all goodness  from THE JEHOVAH.We call and look unto the Almighty Lord as our own Father through Christ.What a precious blessing it is!

Beware of End times

             Have you ever wondered why God fearing people are getting trampled and humiliated?. Some people goes to the extent of saying "There is no God ,if God is alive he would not have let his children(good people) suffer like this". Do you ever felt the scarcity of Love?. You may hear it from the people born in 50's or 60's living now.They always say that their generation loves each other better than this younger generation.Is that true or just a whining of old people?. Are you among the one who often seriously think that moral conduct in this world is gradually degrading?
            People were running madly behind money and fame.All of us are so busy and stressed out with our lives ,we have no time for others.If you consider needy and poor, empathized with others in the helpless situation ,moved into tears when you sympathized with people ,do you think people will hail you and love you back for your kindness and politeness ? certainly not .Sooner or later you will be titled as "fool". Deep inside everyone of us long to experience the selfless love(I am not talking about romantic relationships,we people tend to imagine filmy love whenever we heard the word"Love".I am sick of it) but no one is ready to show the real Love because it will make you vulnerable to the people with bad motives.The saddest part is,we could not identify the people with bad and good motives.People changes rapidly now-a-days.we can't say for sure this man will always do good things for me.
          These days Mutual trust between people are fading and it results in the lack of love.What does the bible says about this situation?
2 Timothy 3:1-5

BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].

For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.

[They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.

[They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.

For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].

            
                    Indeed we are living in the last days!

Bible and the rivers -Pishon

               All living beings flourished around water.Rivers carries the water from one place to another and make the land it flows fertile.Rivers are essential for life.In bible ,blessings are denoted as rivers.God gave rivers for the sake of us,It itself a blessing for man kind.Therefore ,when bible talks about blessing it symbolized it as a river. In Isaiah 48:18 "If only you had paid attention to my commandment then your well-being would have been like a river,and your righteousness like the waves of the sea"

         So I thought it would be good to meditate about the rivers in the bible.First is always special,the first river name we've seen in bible is pishon.In Genesis 2:10,11,12 "From Eden a river flowed out to water the garden,then divided into four river.The first one is the pishon river that flows through the land of havilah where pure gold,rare perfumes and precious stones are found" . In king James version

 Genesis 2:11,12  "The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone"

           As we read this verse we could spot the first land that was named as Havilah.I am not going to enter into the controversies where the land might be originally located.The possible meaning of the name Havilah is stretch of sand or circular or that suffers from pain.Probably Havilah must be the first place where Adam and Eve lived.As the name implies mankind suffers from the pain bring forth by the curse.Name of the River Pishon means "great diffusion" that is spreading light from the light source.This pishon river ran in a circular way ,it encompassed the whole land.The word of God says"

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them". 

                When the man who made by sand suffers in pain writhing in agony our only Lord Jesus came to Earth to spread the light in our hearts.Jesus is the Light.When he encompass us our heart will be pure,filled with the wisdom of his Word.Gold denotes wisdom given by God and his Word.When Pishon flows around Havilah not only gold but bdellium and onyx stone were also found.bdellium is a resin which has a healing property .It is like myrrh.God heals the hearts of his people.In Jeremiah 8:22

                "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?" we could see it is used for healing.We will be healed when the living water flow among us.Jesus is the balm of Gilead.He cleanse our hearts ,heal our wounds.Wherever the river flows onyx stones were also found.

                 Our Lord  chose us and make us shine when we trust Jesus ,when we encompass by him.Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."When we follow him Jesus said "You are the light of the world".He wants us to shine like a precious stone.He wants us to be like him.Jesus only can bring complete transformation in us.

              Again  We read about onyx stone in exodus 28:9-12.There we see how the high priest Aaron bear the names of the Israel engraved in two onyx stones.The onyx stones were attached to the shoulder piece of Ephod.Our High priest Jesus Christ also bear us in his shoulder in the form of cross.Oh! What a Great God we have.Let Elohim say in our hearts "Let there be light". What a glorious change his one word will bring to us.

        

          

         

What does the Bible says about saving our environment?

               Bible is neither a book of superstitions nor mere stories.Many teenagers tend to think that they don't need God just because of the tremendous technology growth.Our modern culture and technology  raise an alarm to save trees .Our scientists are talking endlessly about Global warming and ozone depletion.The only solution for this problem is to grow trees.People shows concern now after they've done considerable damage to our planet.
            The endless researches , with all these inventions and technology  didn't help to stop cutting down of trees.We don't understand what we could do to replenish the forests.The Global warming is still a growing issue .If we had listen to what the Holy Bible says we would have stopped this issue earlier.Bible condemns those who cut down trees even for their own necessity.It may be a  war emergency but God strictly prohibits cutting down of trees for our own selfishness.Let's take a look at a verse                                                   
             " When you are attacking a town, don’t chop down its fruit trees, not even if you have had the town surrounded for a long time. Fruit trees aren’t your enemies, and they produce food that you can eat, so don’t cut them down.  You may need wood to make ladders and towers to help you get over the walls and capture the town. But use only trees that you know are not fruit trees"(Deuteronomy 20:19).
              God gave it as a Law.How keen he is to keep our surrounding safe! but look at us .We are gradually polluting and destroying this planet for our own selfishness.We polluted water in Earth and now searching for water in Mars. Even if we are provided with ten more planets like Earth still we are going to pollute that places too.aren't we?. If we are not willing to change ourselves our surrounding will not going to change by itself. What we just do is endlessly blaming others and authorities,sometimes we find ourselves sitting on a couch in front of T.V after a very bad day with boss we tend to blame God too(ha ha I did this often). We need a big change in our attitude ,then only we are able to develop our environment.Its not too late to get back to the bible  and walk in the light of the word of God.

Bible is for the  weakest  who seek help rather than those who think that they are strong enough to do anything

God sent his son They called him Jesus

                " Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing". It's a quote from shakespeare"As you like it".We all say everything happen for good but what profit exactly.What are we going to gain from misery.Like Shakespeare said miseries are very much ugly,venomous toad, but what does the precious jewel in its  head meant to be?
                 The other day I was reading  a book which explains how to get rid of Anger.It elaborate how our brain responds to the problematic situation.We are planted with trigger points which makes us angry,which makes us afraid or cry right from our childhood.I pondered over what I read and I started to count the trigger points I have throughout my life till now.Like a wave in a ocean we human beings were tossed and turned,crashed on the rocks.our heart were broken so many times ,we were rejected by others so many times the fact is they too rejected by  some others.How easily we forget others.
              Then I remember this verse (mathew5:48)"You must always act like your father in heaven" Jesus did . He act like his father in heaven when he came as a man.He is equal to Father in heaven .He is perfect .How could I supposed to do that?. Jesus is born good .He is the perfect second Adam .The very Adam before the curse.
               Jesus is God so that he could do everything I concluded.Then again I remember another verse (Hebrews 5:8)Jesus is God’s own Son, but still he had to suffer before he could learn what it really means to obey God.  Suffering made Jesus perfect, and now he can save forever all who obey him. 
                What ?????Suffering made Jesus perfect . God the father allow his own son to suffer so that he could learn to obey.Yes Jesus need not have to obey anyone when he was with his father.When he came to earth he must obey  Father in heaven then His mother and Dad in Earth. God Teach his own son through suffering not by any other means.I wonder then the same procedure will be applied for us also when we want to be like Jesus .Therefore when we pray LORD change me like you,he allow us to suffer and lmake us learn valuable things.If these sufferings could change me like Jesus then it's well worth it.It would definitely be a precious Jewel in life.
             
                  

It could happen to you

                       I sincerely felt that we Christians doesn't have the reverend awe as we sing in our choirs.when I compare myself to the people of other religion seeing how much they fear God .I felt we are taking grant of God and says our self soothingly  "'ooh .our God is so compassionate". I am not talking about everyone but some of us are developing hard skin .We always want God to comfort us when we are hurt ,we always want him to cajole us  and want him to say "you got no fault darling,other person only wronged you so much.You don't worry".
                     I personally feel it doesn't work in this way .If you sincerely could not forget what someone did to you and you ask God that you want to forget that.Do you think God will sent a angel to spread some magical wand over your head?some times God chose the hard way to teach you He will send something more hurting than that.
                      We then start to feel that old pain is nothing and we should understand that God is not intended to hurt us.He wants us to have broad perspective about life.He wants to teach us like he taught Jesus by trials and tribulation.Next time if u find yourself in a hard place don't blame anyone he may teaching you something.

Forgiveness is the way of life(3)

              In the last chapter we have seen how the fall of Adam and Eve happened.

               Genesis 3:7
                           Then the eyes of both were opened,and they knew that they were naked;and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
                When their eyes opened the very first thing they sense is about feeling bad about themselves.They felt so bad because they are naked.Before that,they didn't know what bad is or particularly what good they do to make it better.God made them perfect they look perfect to each other.No way Adam said "hey Eve ,whassup you didn't look good today" or "I don't feel like doing my work today" before the curse.
               Now they started feeling good and bad in everything.God created them in his own image .They must be perfect but now their feelings and perception started to distort.This is the first ever feeling they experienced.This gene certainly must have passed down from generation to generation.
               We men and women simply don't like our looks and get satisfied with that.Something often make us feel bad like"My hair is not good enough"' ," I am too tall" ,"I am too short" ,"I am fat"," I am skinny" list goes on.Even if they look so good they too do something to take care of their beauty.Now please don't misunderstand me we must take care of ourselves and present us neat and orderly in public but the question is, Do we  worry about our looks more than our heart? or simply  "feeling bad about your body "just because some one or every one says you're not pretty or handsome.
               If we have this anguish in our heart  we must remember the verse"Let us make man in our image ,after our likeness....."(Genesis1:26). We must try not to trust our distorted feelings with everything. When we are feeling bad or feeling too good we must not swept away by that.we must pray and ask god for balance in our feelings.Word of God will give us wisdom and enlighten us.So this is how Adam and started to felt good and bad through the fruit of knowledge.
                                                                                       to be continued
                                                                                        

Forgiveness is the way of life(2)

Its the continuation of the previous article.
               Why did this evil enforce us to do something which we don't like or we later  feel bad about .We all know the story of Adam and Eve and most of us skip the part while reading bible as we know the story too well.What happened back in Eden Garden is not a mere story , Its the most crucial thing that changed the destiny of human generation.
               Adam and Eve  took the fruit from tree of knowledge without knowing the consequences. I heard of someone came up with a question like this"Why didn't God came and snatch that fruit to throw it away from them". Remember Not only God is our Father, He is a mighty King and righteous judge.We human just want to blame others for our faults(again adam's character!).
               We forget to think that lord was walking with them daily and they certainly know he was the creator .The next valuable thing they know without doubt(because now we wretched human beings are struggling with doubts most of the time like"Lord are you there ? why is this happening to me?")is the love of the creator.They surely know how much he loved them.Can I ask one question ?
            Do any one of us allow our colleague or fellow to get all the credit for what you've done?"I got so much appreciation and rewards so this time I give my work to him completely so that he can earn his credits .will you ever do that?. God gave them complete dominion over the earth he created.Adam and eve was fully aware of that.
            But one day (very bad day for whole of us) Satan came into the garden in the form of Serpent.I always wonder why should Satan come in the form of serpent when he can gain more confidence from Eve by his real angelic form.Yes,God must have already warned them about Lucifer and how he wants to be like God.A caring father will definitely do that .This truth is even more painful.Eve just believed that serpent that came from nowhere more than God who love them,who feed them,who gave all the treasures of Earth.That's not it.Eve also wanted to be like God even after God told them what had happened with Lucifer.
Do you think its easy for God to see them go astray?
              No,Certainly No.But it must be painful for him to watch them going away from him.(As a God fearing Christians we too feel like betrayed sometimes when we do all the goodness and showering love upon people in return they ignore us like a dirt.It is so painful to see some one we love walk away from us ,betray us in return to all the love and care we showed to them).
         Clearly that is the choice of Adam and Eve.Our God doesn't force anyone to do his will.Even angels have self will but they submit to God totally.
        Why he gave us self -will?
                   sometimes I feel like it would be better to be a robot not having any will rather than carrying this rotten self along with me.I just want our Lord Jesus to take over the remote control to handle , control and guide me. What a rest it would be .I will never speak a wrong word or do any foolish act. Everything will be perfect.
                  We must understand he doesn't created us to have a pet.He didn't need servants to carry out the orders.He already have millions and millions of angels to do what he say. Then what else he need from us? what could we give to him?
                  A selfless true love . Then why didn't he create us a Robot so that we will end up in heaven easily? Because he respect us truly. He respect our feelings ,decision(its our call whom do we want to be with .with Jesus or with world ).A true man and a lover will surely respect his ladylove.Whoever love his wife truly will respect her also.Can anyone deny that?A good father will surely respect his children.Our God Almighty did that too.
Which one of you fathers would give your hungry child a snake if the child asked for a fish?  
           Which one of you would give your child a scorpion if the child asked for an egg?  As bad as you are, you still know how to give good gifts to your children. But your heavenly Father is even more ready to give the Holy Spirit to anyone who asks.(Luke 11:11).