Passover

Still My God

Clean and Free

As the world is temporary shutdown due to covid19, let this remind us how difficult it is to come out of a sin physically, spiritually and mentally.

In the book of John 4 we see a Samaritan woman who lived a sinful life. She met Jesus and He told her about her life and revealed He is the Messiah and those who come to him will be provided with living water, that they will never be thirsty again. She understood the savior and through faith in Christ salvation came to her life and she evangelized and brought the villagers to him. They also saw him and believed in him.

The bottom line is – sin comes to your life and gets stuck with your lifestyle. It may spread to others and from others to many. Only way to cleanse that sin which got stuck is through the blood of Jesus Christ. Once you believe in Jesus that He came to the world and died for the sins you did, His blood will wash and cleanse all your sins and you will be sin free and will restore your friendship with God, which was taken away by your sins.

Once you are in Christ, you will be hungry to lead others also towards Him. Your hunger will be met when you faithfully introduce Christ to others so that their sins could be washed by the same blood of Christ.

You may have to face problems and troubles more than what you have faced before. But as Paul writes in Romans 5, peace will fill your heart. Like a long distance runner, endurance will be developed and it leads to a faithful character in your life, which will shine for the glory of God. The hope and confidence will be your strength to move forward in life, in which your main goal will be to introduce this Jesus to others.

Be careful not to do evil which not only spoil your physical body, but your soul and your spiritual oneness in Jesus who died for your sins.

May The Spirit of God help you to live a life in God’s word and overcome the world to be a faithful servant.

May The Lord help you to have patience in this situation of Corona virus outbreak. Let us pray to God to save us physically as he did spiritually.

By Faith

There are people who does lot of physical activities to see God’s glory in their life. Some carry cross and walk certain distance, or some mountain, some light candles in front of cross, some donate to the poor and to the church, some gets involve in church activities. As the lent days are going by, some won’t eat non veg foods. Well, fasting is good for you physically, but not to see the glory of God in your life.

To see the glory of God, or the Kingdom of God, you need to be saved; you need to be born again. Now, this is confusing. Yes, you are in this world born of a father and mother. In the Bible Jesus teaches to Nicodemus, a Jewish leader to be born again to see the kingdom of God. Born again means you need to be born of water and the Spirit. (John 3)

I have seen people who got baptized, living a confused life. They just had a dip in water to give an addition to the preachers baptism count.

Judas is a person who was a disciple of Jesus. He walked with Jesus, talked with him, ate with him, but never had Jesus in his heart. Same way, after Jesus’s resurrection, there were people who saw him, heard his teaching, but never believed him. So being born again, or salvation does happen to a person spiritually, inside him.

Salvation is simple. The one who believes in faith that Jesus is their saviour is saved. Saviour means, the son of God who came to earth as human, obeyed the laws, did no sin, but took all your sins upon him and got the punishment for the sins you have done, to make you free from that sin and save you from the eternal punishment. So salvation happens in your faith, belief and the way you think about your life and Jesus, not by any other means.

In the Old Testament God gave law to his people through Moses. But in the New Testament God gave Jesus to us, so that even if you try to obey all the law, to see the Kingdom of God, you need to accept Jesus Christ as your saviour, who saved you from all the punishments. God’s faithful servant Abraham was called to be the father of God’s chosen children not by his obedience of law, but by his faith in God. (Romans 4)

When troubles and problems hit your life, this faith is needed to overcome the situation. For healing, this faith is needed. For any miracle, this faith is needed. The devils always try to test your faith. To overcome that, you need to constantly read and meditate upon the word of God. God provides you encouragement and motivate you to stay in faith and see His wonders.

Let The Lord who created you, be your first priority and build your faith and may you testify – My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth (Psalms 121)

An Ambassador

Once I met a family who use to pray very loudly about 30 min in the morning. Whenever they see us, they use to talk with biblical references. But after everything, I saw them doing fraud in the water and electricity bills. These are people who claim themselves as Christians. The great Mahatma Gandhi mentions he like Jesus Christ, but he hates Christians. Why? Because most of the Christians are hypocrites.

As the Christians around the world are following lent days, some believers do fasting, some full fasts, while others, Daniel fasting. All these people do this to show their submission to God for the sacrifice Jesus did on the cross.

These days you can find hypocrites who show off too much spiritually. They go to church every day, won’t eat non vegetarian food and won’t speak bad words. But once that 40 day mark comes, on Easter, they will be drunk in another world.

In Mathew 6, Jesus is telling not to be like a hypocrite. Whatever help or good you do, don’t let your left hand know what right hand does. Help other in private and don’t boast about it. Now days, people help others and post a photo about it in Instagram and share it in Facebook. Do these things in private and the Lord will reward you for it. 

Jesus teaches about prayer. Don’t pray in a manner everyone notices you, but pray alone in private and your father in heaven will reward you (Mathew 6). Same way when you fast don’t try to tell everyone that you are fasting. Be like any other day, comb your hair properly, take bath and be clean. Try some chewing gum so that your breath won’t smell bad as you are fasting. The fasting, the sacrifice you are doing is between you and God. It is not to show to everyone.

When you follow Christ, you are his ambassador. So in everything you do, show that you are true ministers of God. Don’t be a false prophet. When troubles come, patiently endure it. Even in hard times, faithfully preach the truth. The God who sees your heart will be proud of you. (2 Corinthians 5).

If you don’t know who Jesus is, just understand that you and I are sinners. Jesus paid for our sins by sacrificing himself on the cross, so that whosoever believes him will be saved. These days’ people around the world are meditating about this sacrifice of Jesus. If you are not free, repent your sins, ask God to forgive, accept Jesus Christ as your saviour and follow him. No matter what your name, religion is, you are free from bondages and you are a child of God. Read His word and faithfully obey it.

Be an Ambassador of Jesus Christ, not a hypocrite.