The Lord Encourages Isaiah

The Lord Encourages Isaiah
 Indeed this is what the LORD told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people:
     ​​​​​​​“Do not say, ‘Conspiracy,’ every time these people say the word.
      Don’t be afraid of what scares them; don’t be terrified.
      You must recognize the authority of the LORD who commands armies.
       He is the one you must respect;
       he is the one you must fear.

Cleansing our sins again and again

Last Sunday when I was at church, my son (Andrew, 1.5 years old), want to come out of church and want to be outside. There was one tree with small red fruits (common in Karnataka). The fruits fell down on the ground he will pick and squeeze. His figures will become dirty. Then he will come to me to clean his hand with my kerchief. Every time he made his hand dirty, he will come to me and ask me to clean. Third time when he came to me, a thought came to my mind. This is the same way I (we) approach Jesus each time when we do sin and approach for confession. That day my son came to me around 7 times. Since other thought already came to my mind I did not got angry :-)

The depth of our knowledge in Bible

I was just thinking by seeing numerous ministries and millions of people working for God and thousands of different interpretations of bible verses, will it happen or happening one day that one may tell some of the things that Jesus has done not very much correct as per Christianity !!

The creature try to judge the Creator !!

Resolve then to do this.

Take pains to understand what you read. When you understand it, take then always one or another word to keep in remembrance and ponder. Learn words of God by heart; repeat them to yourself in the course of the day.

The word is seed; the seed must have time, must be kept in the ground: so must the word be carried in the heart. Give the best powers of your heart, your love, your desire, the willing and joyful activity of your will, to God's word.
`Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.' Let the heart be a temple, not for the world and its thoughts, but for God and His thoughts. (Ps. 119:69; John 15:3,7; 17:6,8,17)

Real, lasting happiness

He who is saved from his sin, and united to God, possesses the utmost happiness that the human soul can enjoy, either in this or the coming world.
Our souls can be truely happy only when our will is fully aligned to God's will.

He still works for us

We all know that Jesus Christ has come to this world and died on the cross for our sins. And we think it stops there. Christs work for us stops there.

But this is not true.

Everyday he is purifying our hearts. Everyday he is running behind us to remind pray, be calm and be contended.

He work for us till we reach our Home. He care for us till we reach Home.

He suffer for us till we reach our Home. His suffering not finished at the cross. It continues till we stop our sin, heartless nature.

From the "Letters" of St.John of Avila

From the "Letters" of St.John of Avila

"We should be ashamed to see that a fashanable woman put so much effort to beautify herselves than our effort to please Jesus."

The meaning is that she is doing something for earthly things and will last only for few years. We know the love of Jesus and importance of it and it will last forever. Still we are reluctant to put effort to love him.