Thoughts for another day

Thoughts for another day

April 28, 2006

Today's verse: Is 14:24. Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: (KJV).

‘Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.’ You find Jesus saying this in the Gospels. And it leads one to ponder upon its meaning? Mere words, as we think they are, can remain forever? Even, more than the time of the earth?!!! Reflect and you will see the difficulty in comprehension. About Heaven, we know not much. But about earth – well, scientists tell us that it existed millions of years! So Jesus tells us that it too shall not be permanent but His Words will. Becomes a trite difficult to believe no?

But if you are in the Lord, there is no difficulty. God’s Words are God Himself. Jesus Christ is the Word of God. John says in his Gospel, ‘In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God.’ God is eternal. So therefore, His Word – Jesus Christ is eternal and that is why, Jesus can say, ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away but My Words remain.’
Which then means that everything that God has said, has to happen and Isaiah aptly reflects this in the above verse. My dear child of God, remember God has made a number of promises in His Word, which are the elixir of life for us. Avail of those words. Take God at His promise. He will not fail. God is a faithful God and He will do exactly as His Word promises. His Word as it is spoken is like a bullet that is fired from a gun. It will do its work. When you are down in the dumps ‘Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you’ Ps. 55:22. That is a fair promise and for God His promise or His Word is His nature. He will accomplish it. He will sustain you. Don’t define your parameters as to how He should sustain, rather rely on His ways for He knows best. Only remember, He will deliver. And there is nothing impossible for Him.

So much trouble all over!!!

I am appalled at the happenings in the world today. Its amazing when you hear of things which are just bizarre. The sad part is that these amazing things are happening inthe area of crime and affecting innocent lives.

Take the Egypt bombings: innocent people totally unconnected with the perpetrators of the crime or the govt. loosing lives!

Then there are accidents, natural disasters, uprisings, suicide bombings, suicides, rapes of children...what's the world heading towards?

Is this just the beginnings of the great tribulation? Is mankind heading towards a precipice. Is the end near? We never can know. For really speaking, how much can frail man know anyway. We do not even know whether we can get up from sleep!

I believe the answer to all this is Jesus Christ. He has the principles if, on which we base our lives, we are sure going to be winners. His essential theme of 'Love one another as I have loved you' will provide that tolerance for the fallibilities of those around us. And of course His forgiveness of others will provide us the strength to forgive those who sin against us.

If you are reading this I'd like to know what you think about it too.