Easter

Holy Saturday

Perfect Sacrifice

"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" - John 3: 16.

When God created first man and woman, He wanted them to stay close with Him and live holy as He is Holy (1 Peter 1: 16). God gave them authority to take decisions on their own, but they used it to disobey God and therefore fell into sin.

According to God's law of Holiness, without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness (Hebrews 9: 22). Only through cleansing of blood can a person become sin free. For this reason God called Israel and taught them sacrifices through the blood of goats and calves. But it was temporary forgiveness of sin as they need to do these sacrifices regularly.

But God decided to send His only son as he promised to the first man (Genesis 3: 15), and Jesus came to this world as human, obeyed God's laws perfectly and became an ultimate sacrifice for the sin of all mankind. God made Jesus's sacrifice as a permanent remission of sin (Hebrews 10: 10-18).

Good Friday is the day the world meditates upon Christ's sacrifice for the entire humanity. This sacrifice does not mean that everyone is saved. According to John 3: 16, whoever believes in Christ and his sacrifice and who in turn will repent, is going to get saved and his/her sins are going to be washed by the blood of Christ Jesus.

In this world people follow and go behind millions of God to get saved, and they dislike this one God who came to this world to save his children. On this day may The Lord help you and introduce himself to you so that you will repent your sins and accept him and get saved, and in course meditate His word and live accordingly.

Be a Fool

            As the world celebrates Fools day on April 1, people are enjoying sending and receiving funny and fake messages having the tag – April fool.

                In life we see some people are so foolish that sometimes we feel even the Almighty cannot change them. There are people who get cheated in money related things and some getting abused and cheated in relationships. The common denominator problem of these people is simple – choosing friends.

                There is a famous hymn – “What a friend we have in Jesus”. People sing this song and cry that they don’t have any friend. So they try to impress the worldly friends by doing whatever they tell, and the result – they get cheated, or they are fooled.

                In the Bible we see some people who had friendship with God. Moses was a friend of God (Exodus 33: 11). When you have God as your friend, you won’t bother to impress the worldly people to gain their attention.

                The difference between a friend to God and a friend to world is, you give everything to impress or gain a worldly friend and get fooled, but you follow God like a fool and you gain everything. When you follow Christ, even if you are labelled a fool, God chooses you and bless you accordingly. “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong” – 1 Corinthians 1: 27.

In this April fool’s day, I urge you to be a fool for Christ and it will become the wisest decision you have ever taken. May God bless you.

“We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak but ye are strong” – 1 Corinthians 4: 10.