Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December 22, 2013

NOURISH THE SOUL, NOT JUST THE BODY

Praise the Lord, We are named by our parents. Our ears are most attentive when our names are called out from a list of contestants as the winner or selected for a purpose. We feel hurt when someone calls us nicknames or makes fun of our names. Our name gives us an identity. We are separate from others. We have an individuality. Our friends hang out with us. We are surrounded by our loved ones, colleagues and co-believers. We do everything possible to retain our good name and the character attributes attached therewith. All efforts are taken to enhance our beauty or material welfare. We think we will live on forever and ever. Death is always for the ‘other’ person. But it comes on us suddenly. We cannot escape from it. The thought that I read in a book and that set me thinking is –After we die, we are just a ‘body’. No one says—“Put Susan or George here.” It’s always-Put the ‘body’ here. Lower the ‘body’ into the grave. Fly the ‘body’ home etc. Our name is hardly used at ...

Are We Aware of Masks

Beware of false prophets,  which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves . Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?   ( Mat 7:15,16) Its the same verse as of yesterday, but the Lord is speaking in another manner to all of us this day. Its a word of Caution from the Lord as He starts off saying or asking the reader to BE CAREFUL OR CAUTIOUS of a group, the false Prophets. Jesus Christ who is loving and because of His care for us, He is telling us that we are living among a world of people who wear masks on them. Its not just about the false prophets, but we all do also have various masks on us. Look at how Jesus reveals to us about their masks. He says that they are one who wear a mask of a sheep outward but inward they are like wolves who are wanting to destroy the ones in front of them. They are the ones who never like others move in the good path, they never want others to be close to ...