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"