Often we come across the word "saint" .... this post is just to understand what "saint" is all about from a christian perspective.
First point of view
When we call someone a saint... yes saint, but compared to whom? i mean its possible that a person who killed 10 persons calls another person who killed 1 person as a saint, this comparison is absurd, but thats wat we normally do, a bigger sinner calling a lesser sinner a saint :)
Second point of view
When God has made us and called us with a very great calling, God knows our state, yet in his eyes we are all children who would grow to the state he desires, ofcourse through a path of nudge,scrubbing,refining etc etc. One quality of God is "he calls things that are not as though they were" so he sees us as 100% full fruits and we are growing towards that ... so yes with eyes of faith since we are washed by the blood of the lamb we do well to declare to the devil and associates that we are no longer under sin but we are saints.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Suicide - The battle of the Soul
Suicide is the result of a person concluding life or living meaningless, so what exactly causes a person to commit suicide
1. A person commits suicide when he fails to understand that God is able to change his circumstances (complete lack of faith in God)
2. A person commits suicide when he is befelled in pain, grief, sorrow, horror etc. (complete lack of faith in God)
3. A person commits suicide when he finds life meaningless (i.e. lack of faith in God, because God found the life of man so meaningful that he came down to suffer for us)
4. Suicide is not allowed under the law (isn’t suicide a failure to believe on our God of love, and that love is greater than law?)
Working of the spirit of suicide:
The spirit of suicide, unlike anger and other emotions is not instantaneous i.e. suddenly a person felt and committed suicide - it just doesn’t happen this way. A person is slave to many many other spirits before the spirit of suicide can finally take over to finish things off. In other words, the ground work for suicide begins in a person long before the final deed occurs. The spirit of suicide knocks on the heart though loop-holes such as hatred, guilt, depression etc, once it finds a foot hold, it convinces the person that "IT" is the only best solution for that person. At this moment the person having chosen it begins to think about it, this thinking can be converted to action at some point in time by some circumstantial catalysts(unless the spirit of suicide was there, these catalysts have no meaning).
In short suicide occurs due to: Failure to believe on existence/love of a "Saviour" who could save.
1. A person commits suicide when he fails to understand that God is able to change his circumstances (complete lack of faith in God)
2. A person commits suicide when he is befelled in pain, grief, sorrow, horror etc. (complete lack of faith in God)
3. A person commits suicide when he finds life meaningless (i.e. lack of faith in God, because God found the life of man so meaningful that he came down to suffer for us)
4. Suicide is not allowed under the law (isn’t suicide a failure to believe on our God of love, and that love is greater than law?)
Working of the spirit of suicide:
The spirit of suicide, unlike anger and other emotions is not instantaneous i.e. suddenly a person felt and committed suicide - it just doesn’t happen this way. A person is slave to many many other spirits before the spirit of suicide can finally take over to finish things off. In other words, the ground work for suicide begins in a person long before the final deed occurs. The spirit of suicide knocks on the heart though loop-holes such as hatred, guilt, depression etc, once it finds a foot hold, it convinces the person that "IT" is the only best solution for that person. At this moment the person having chosen it begins to think about it, this thinking can be converted to action at some point in time by some circumstantial catalysts(unless the spirit of suicide was there, these catalysts have no meaning).
In short suicide occurs due to: Failure to believe on existence/love of a "Saviour" who could save.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Path of Life
Theme: Life
Once a child cries on earth, there is laughter around, when a child wants it can do nothing else but express with a cry, lack of materialistic knowledge of the world, lack of strength ...
As the child progresses in wisdom and knowledge to live on earth ... many fascinations appear words like "success" "achievement" and "failure" appear ... a kind that one would get to see when on rollercoaster ride "sky" "present reality" and "stuck in atmosphere"
As the ride progresses, all achievements and gains made start to fade, life becomes seeing the joy of some another, perhaps child/grand child ...
As days go on further, memories only remain, excellence in wisdom, but no strength to make use of it... days go on and on ... only to see another new day .... dull ... people whom u love have so many other things to be busy with ... life just goes on .... all friends u made in life depart as if in queue.
Finally the stage ... where people will give u what they want or what they think is good for u ...u are not consulted even for the things u need ... all items like food and clothing are forced upon u ... in weakness - u behold urself, probably in the hospital ICU... then comes the final moment... when the body that was urs does not matter anymore. A few tears and grieved faces around
A child, a running man or a life's retired bed man .... he who has the lord to guide him is always safe, he is a friend who would lead life beyond the grave.!!
Once a child cries on earth, there is laughter around, when a child wants it can do nothing else but express with a cry, lack of materialistic knowledge of the world, lack of strength ...
As the child progresses in wisdom and knowledge to live on earth ... many fascinations appear words like "success" "achievement" and "failure" appear ... a kind that one would get to see when on rollercoaster ride "sky" "present reality" and "stuck in atmosphere"
As the ride progresses, all achievements and gains made start to fade, life becomes seeing the joy of some another, perhaps child/grand child ...
As days go on further, memories only remain, excellence in wisdom, but no strength to make use of it... days go on and on ... only to see another new day .... dull ... people whom u love have so many other things to be busy with ... life just goes on .... all friends u made in life depart as if in queue.
Finally the stage ... where people will give u what they want or what they think is good for u ...u are not consulted even for the things u need ... all items like food and clothing are forced upon u ... in weakness - u behold urself, probably in the hospital ICU... then comes the final moment... when the body that was urs does not matter anymore. A few tears and grieved faces around
A child, a running man or a life's retired bed man .... he who has the lord to guide him is always safe, he is a friend who would lead life beyond the grave.!!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
New Airport Mango
The mango on the table was special, not bcs of its species but bcs of the memory it carried along... not done anything like it ... was up a mango tree 1am midnight just outside of the new bangalore airport, am glad that even my generation can call bangalore garden city after all...
It was a rainy night and i had just returned after a battle with the rains, it was a sunday ... another weekend rain to which johnny said 'rain rain go away', got a unexpected guest, a friend on a rainy day ... After settling the purpose of the visit .. we were about to depart .. when our discussions turned around the vip who was leaving the country for a year, not in search of new horizons but dispatched to an onsite location by his company for a year... sometimes human bonds are stronger than fevicol...he had been my close friend for over 8 years now ... and this was his all time dream... finally true
we decided to wave him goodbye at the airport all of a sudden... this meant another battle with the rains ... the visit however was not that bad, driving through the 6 lane road in the night... where vehicles zoomed past without hazzle all these made me dazzle ... the new airport was something ... built like a show piece... roads leading to the airport were decorated with serial lights on the meridian ... something that happens only at festive occasions in bangalore .. the circles on the roads resembled an real garden city, these had lights on them too...
The airport itself was beautiful with well planned visitor traffic and overall good engineering work. Seeing those lovely planes from lufthansa to air-france standing in rows reminded me of my best time in school. Is the new bangalore airport only about engineering and aircraft traffic... u just need to peek at the mango on my table :)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Getting Off a Relation - A Mans Perspective
author - Isaac John
To walk hand in hand across the JP Park, Mathikere, the mood, the huge green clean park, some moments last for ever- but as memories. Before even the relationship begins to blossom, thoughts are already on to drown the ship of the particular relationship. Its not a secret that a human being cannot commit himself with certain ppl from the opposite sex, however attractions lead to the start of such a relation and the male brain begins to try to find ways to come out of the 'quicksand'.
Got a call one day from a very close friend, and he was right at target, he asked "whos that gal" obvious response was "where did u see us", it wasnt difficult for him to make such a wild guess, a guy often sacrifies time with his buddies when in new companionship.
Not all companinship's are pleasant, no not for guys, there was this gal who had a fav. question "do u love me?" kind of usual stuff one must think but the situation was that the guy told her that he was sick and hence couldnt call her for 2 days. this was a typical case of her being a 'selish quicksand'
Another guy described his past relation as one in which there was a lot of tears involved, the reason wasnt horrible as we expected, he said the gal simply would cry for any reason or even no reason, she would cry if he called her for long hours, spoke to her friend or even if he was busy and couldnt pick her call at that moment. This is a typical 'teary quicksand'.
Sometimes "getting out" of the roller coaster of relationship isnt as easy as "getting into" the ride, ur head begins to spin and ur foot begins to dance.
So my choise is not to commit to a relation. But then again the questions arises "if u dont commit then how do u know if a relationship is the right one?"
To walk hand in hand across the JP Park, Mathikere, the mood, the huge green clean park, some moments last for ever- but as memories. Before even the relationship begins to blossom, thoughts are already on to drown the ship of the particular relationship. Its not a secret that a human being cannot commit himself with certain ppl from the opposite sex, however attractions lead to the start of such a relation and the male brain begins to try to find ways to come out of the 'quicksand'.
Got a call one day from a very close friend, and he was right at target, he asked "whos that gal" obvious response was "where did u see us", it wasnt difficult for him to make such a wild guess, a guy often sacrifies time with his buddies when in new companionship.
Not all companinship's are pleasant, no not for guys, there was this gal who had a fav. question "do u love me?" kind of usual stuff one must think but the situation was that the guy told her that he was sick and hence couldnt call her for 2 days. this was a typical case of her being a 'selish quicksand'
Another guy described his past relation as one in which there was a lot of tears involved, the reason wasnt horrible as we expected, he said the gal simply would cry for any reason or even no reason, she would cry if he called her for long hours, spoke to her friend or even if he was busy and couldnt pick her call at that moment. This is a typical 'teary quicksand'.
Sometimes "getting out" of the roller coaster of relationship isnt as easy as "getting into" the ride, ur head begins to spin and ur foot begins to dance.
So my choise is not to commit to a relation. But then again the questions arises "if u dont commit then how do u know if a relationship is the right one?"
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