Titus CHP 3, Ver 5:7

5. Not by the works of righteousness which we have done, but according to HIS Mercy HE saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
6. Which HE shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
7. That being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the Hope of Eternal Life.

Let us meditate on the above.

Since I'm at a situation right now in my life where I have been blessed everyday abundantly. By HIS grace.

I'm constantly being followed by the evil around me. In my thoughts, polluting me in the ways I live.

The words given to us are very strong to hold us against Pride :)

One of the very deadly sins we can commit is Pride.

Verse 5: Tells us not by the works of the righteousness that we have done.

We may have done a lot of things according to what God says, especially when we are gifted the fruits of our hard work, our sacrifices. We tend to think that we are responsible for what we achieve.

But this is completely wrong. This is the way Satan paves the way for us towards Pride moving to arrogance and anger so on...

....But according to HIS mercy He saved us. by washing of regeneration and renewing the Holy Ghost.
 We have to constantly keep in mind that it is according to Abba Father our life falls in place and out of place. It is in HIS perfect Timing that we live in.

We have no reason to boast about anything in Life.

Especially in my situation I have been attacked by Satan, When I was given the many gifts by my Lord, a human mind tends to think why should we gift the same level of happiness to someone else??
Can't I live in better standards and have better things than others? We forget that this was not because of our Righteousness but Because of HIS Mercy

What we can do is keep in mind.

Matthew 10:8 "Freely you received, freely you give"


6. Which HE shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour

 Through the Blood of Jesus we are purified. Blood has the utmost importance. Biblically and scientifically Blood has proven to be the life for living.. Jesus has saved us by His Blood.



7. That being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the Hope of Eternal Life

Speaking of the blood, don't you feel that by Jesus sacrifice we all were made equal. Given a chance?
Yes Jesus gave us a chance to leave everything and to follow Him. No more sacrifices no more authorities but He established us to be worthy of Worshipping our Lord. As we were sinners and will always be.

But he gave us a chance to repent before the time comes and renew our lives by the Holy Spirit.

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By Faith I feel accomplished . Amen

The struggle started when I graduated college. Getting in to a good college is one thing but getting a good job after that is a completely different story.

In my 4 and half year career I have gone through a lot of phases from low salary to losing jobs, company closing down etc.

I didn't know what to do. Was I putting in all the hard work? Yes. But was anything working in my favour? Nope

But then I analysed my career life on the evening of Jan 18th 2015, the day my company shut down.

2012: I  started my career as an accountant. I started with a low salary worked there and got to know some basics. I left this job because it didn't help me learn more than just certain basics.

2013: After almost a year and half  in my previous company,I joined another company. Which offered me marketing research with a better great salary and at the same time I wanted to celebrate my mom n dads anniversary. Which I did with this big fat salary of mine.

Eveything done and gone 4 months down the line. This company shuts down.

2014: 2nd quarter of this year I had bagged a job for accounting again with a medium salary range and it was a big company. Everything seemed settled down and I got to learn a lot from this new place. I learnt what was the love of Finance at this new company. Gave in my hard work. There was no stopping.

I even got awarded at the annual function.

2015: every year we pray for stability in job and have good year, 18 days down the line of the year I lost this job. The investors stopped funding our Compaany and we had to shut down.

That very evening when I sat and thought it all seemed like a plan to me. My Gods plan.

Each and every job taught me something and gave me something invaluable. It was never my fault for the company shut down or my fault that my boss treated me bad.

But I stand a living testimony to you the reader, that my God is alive and He has a plan for me.

He has a plan for everyone of you.

April 12, 2015, I declare that I'm not worthy to receive the gift of a new job at a much bigger company and better salary. But I sing to you " that you graces found just as I'm , empty handed but alive in Your hands, singing majesty"

I kept reminding myself what Jesus told Peter,

20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Gods ways are not like our ways.

I didn't doubt my life. I gave my life in Gods hands and just prayed and thanked him for giving me all that He has given me today.

I thank God for his blessing of this new job. I will only work hard to tell Him his thank You's and only work to make Him proud.

Don't lose hope, because if I look at these four to 5 years of my life they all are    A part of a Gods plan. If we judge our life by the moment or one episode we will miss on the whole story.

Stay focused and stay in faith with Abba Father, Say your Rosary and always call upon Jesus if you feel low.

But all the most trust God , he will never ever ever ever leave you.

PS: I'm way too happy. 

Divorce in Bible , Matthew Chap 5 V 31-32

Let us Meditate on the above.

Jesus speaks on Divorce. It is astonishing that something terrible and heart breaking decision is explained in just two sentences.

This is what I really like about Jesus speaking to us. He makes things clear and simple to understand yet so difficult to follow.

Verse 31: Speaking of the old law of Divorce.

Jesus reminds people about how divorce was in ancient times. There were not many implications around it. 

Verse 32: Jesus elaborates the law. He says " But I tell you, one who divorces his wife except for sexual immortality makes her a victim of adultery"

There is a very deep meaning to this sentence. There is a husband and a wife. And the only thing that will be the reason for the cause of seperation would be sexual immortality.

When a married couple is joint together in marriage and they are one, there is a very special bond between the two. Which cannot be easily broken. By the very act of being one, somewhere their souls are one. It is very very difficult to break up on reasons apart from loyalty.

If a wife is found in adultery only then the husband is allowed to divorce her.

But reasons like she doesn't take care of me, she won't take care of the kids, she won't work are non of the reasons mentioned here. So problems are a part and parcel of marriage and things will get better eventually if we pray and try to work things out.

but what if we don't?

If the husband divorces his wife for reasons other than adultery, he makes her a victim of adultery.

So the wife is blamed for being adulteress and is divorced but if not, what if the man is is not faithful? what if he divorces for his selfish needs. He makes her prone to adultery. He is responsible for her state ,along with her. 

So if a woman is divorced she should seek love at the least. Someday somewhere God will surely put the right person for her in her life. 

Because God so dearly loves a righteous woman. He will never let injustice happen to her. No haste in proving that you are worth much more or seek revenge.

You will only be open to committing adultery from your side. You won't be pure but be a victim of adultery

Stay Calm and trust the Lord.

Jesus has said these words very carefully, both for husband and wife.



The last line says " One who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery"

This Law is like an equation. By the first two sentences we know why divorce can be acceptable. Here Jesus says there a person who marries a divorced woman,

That is according to law, a divorce can occur only under the circumstance of adultery and non other. Hence a divorce shows that a person was accused of adultery and the one who marries one adulteress is also partaking in adultery.

How simple yet so difficult to follow. May all who you read this have a happy and blessed married life in Jesus Name :) Amen

Bible about treating other people, Matthew Chp 5: 21- 22

Amen

Let us meditate on the above.

The above will be divided in 3 Parts

 Verse 21 It is said that in The Old Times, that Thou shall Not Kill and who so ever does that will be in danger of judgement.

What I believe and what Jesus always says is that he didn't come to change what the prophets have said but to fulfil what they have said. What Jesus says next is like an upgrade, a new warning out of the same old texts that we read.

Jesus knew that wickedness lies in the heart. Suppose if we follow the law of not killing but in our heart we have killed the person many a times. We may have cursed, we may have accidentally prayed for them to be unsuccessful, and been joyful in their trials and made fun of them.

Jesus wants us to be clean from heart and not just follow the laws blindly.

Hence the below three parts. Jesus makes the law more precise a bit more difficult for us to achieve. Something I too struggle with

Verse 22: But I say unto you, that who so ever is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of Judgement

Here Jesus clearly states that we shouldn't be angry with our brother and sisters, fellow beings without a cause. For if we are so we will be in danger of Judgement of the Lord for our behaviour. I feel at this time we will have a chance to say our part, what we felt at this time.This gives us a picture of how the Judgement day will be.

And who so ever calls his brother Raca ( Lowly,names) will be in danger of the council

Danger of the council? What does this imply? does it give us a picture of a court? a council? many people around eager to know why we did we commit  such a mistake? 

Calling names and treating someone low is murder by heart. You can kill a person by your words. 

When a loving husband sees his wife in love with someone else, having an affair, and when she says she loves the other man, the husband wishes he'd died before he heard that.

Sometimes we all wish we died before we hear some words which cut through our heart. 

The council will judge us so as to why we used such words? why was our behaviour such? 

We have no right to treat anyone low. This is scary. When you cry cry and try to explain but then there is whole bunch of members of this particular congregation not willing to listen, you will be punished

Lastly..But who so ever shall call his brother a fool (worthless) will be in danger of hell Fire

When we take pride, one of the Seven deadly sins against our own people, make them feel worthless. God is super angry on us. It reminds me of a verse ( will let know later) where it is mentioned we shouldn't swear by anything because we are not capable of growing a hair or giving life in a plant how can we swear by anything?

In the same way we are no one to judge anyone as a worthless person. Good for nothing. We don't face the judgement or the judgement of the council here we stand on the judgement of the Hell Fire.

We may have to answer by who's authority do we tell the worth of a person. We ourselves are capable of nothing at all until God plans things for us.

We need to avoid the killing of a person from heart. To forgive and move on. We have no reason to quarrel with people. We have to make sure that if we are angry against our kin it is for a valid reason and pray that God Guides you through this time and helps you and gives you a better understanding so that you may be saved form the judgement , judgement of the council and worse the Never ending Fire of Hell.

How does Jesus see us? Matthew Chap 5; 14:16

Amen

Let us Meditate on the above Verse.

What so I feel when I read the verse?

There is joy in every word here. Jesus has given us life and made us the light of the world. The joy exceeds and over flows.

With the beauty of the light within us , we cannot hide it. Once we decide to be the followers of  Christ he makes us the light and hope of this world.

Verse 14 Says, we are given the light and placed high on the hills so that people who are lost and gone astray will look at us and have hope in Christ and that Lord is with us no matter what we are going through.

Verse 15. goes on to give an example, When we light a candle is darkness; when suppose there is a power cut off in the village. We don't keep the candle in a room , we bring it to the main room, so that everyone can have share it and see in the darkness.

Verse 16 It is beautifully said that we have to be like the light in the darkness, a symbol that Jesus places us (town) on the hill so that we reflect the teachings of our Lord and Do So according to Him so that we glorify Him.

Not through words but through our actions of being light to the world. Small deeds go big way. Never boast of what you do but do all so that God sees it and He is glorified in every action and every feeling we have.

Matthew Chp 5: 13

13. "You are the salt of the Earth; but if the salt has lost its flavour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is hence forth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under the foot of men."

Amen

Lets meditate on the above

As simple as the above seems it is very strong warning.

Most of Jesus' stories/ parables were more of a kind of lesson with a moral and warning to all.

So also in this verse from the Book of Matthew.

What is salt? It is a mineral rock found on Earth. 

Who are we? We are the Salt.

Properties of the Salt? To provide taste. Enhance the flavour of the food we eat. Its very commonly found.

I believe what Jesus spoke by the grace of God our Father, His examples are also very carefully given.

Salt very common for us, so are the people on Earth, in plenty. Like salt is given a property , a taste. So are we given our task and our purpose in life. 

We have to be what we are meant to be. Some are gifted and some people struggle to find what their purpose is. But we have to rooted to our purpose doing what Christ has called us to do.

What happens when salt fails?

Have you ever touched salt? You know when we add salt by our hand to the food we cook. What is unwanted stays on our fingers, we rush to wash it off by putting our hand in the water. Its irritating, and may cause a bit of burning sensation.

So also is with people. But here God isn't washing us off until we are used. He carefully says, what if you lose the flavour. What if you run away from your purpose on Earth? 

There are always many chances given to us while we are alive, but when the time has come and we have not fulfilled what we were supposed to, we loose our taste and we are good for nothing.

I don't say this, these are the words of Christ and the consequence of such would be just like the salt thrown away to be trodden under the feet of men

This is a very strong warning to all who intentionally miss their purpose in life. When you know you are the salt, you have to add to the taste, you have to be of use to Jesus' mission here on Earth. Because he has to select us. We don't want to be forgotten on the Judgement day, trodden under the feet of men.

Matthew Chp 4 18:22 : How to follow Jesus

18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother,casting  a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19: And He said unto them, Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.20 And they straightway left their nets and Followed Him.21 And going from thence, He saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in a ship with Zebedee their father mending their nets and He called them.22 And they immediately left their ship and their father and followed Him.


Lets Meditate on the above.

So I was reading Matthew Chapter 4 and I came across very strong words with almost the same meaning.

Straightway and Immediately.

We work and when we work we take pride in what we do. It helps us feed our families, takes care of our needs and pay the bills, much more. Some of us are soo in to working that we forget what life is. We get busy and we don't want to entertain others who do not work.We often look down on people while we are doing our jobs. People who are less fortunate.

Fishermen in those times were considered well to do people. I'm sure they took pride in what they did.

But all of a sudden a Man named Jesus visits their place and asks Peter and Andrew  to follow him and He will make them fishers of men.
Imagine the thought process of Simon Peter and Andrew. Doing their daily work and they Straightway left their nets.

What encourages you to leave your work and do something that is right? It has be to Gods plan to select these men and when Jesus tells them to follow Him, they are filled with joy of the Lord. They do Not hesitate in leaving what was their lively hood. They thought of nothing. If they did, the Bible would say yes, they paid homage to their families, let their family know about some savings while they were away. But it wasn't like that, they Straight away left their nets and followed Him.

That is how we should be to Follow Jesus Straightway.

We shouldn't wait for the right time and check if we have the proper resources. If we follow Jesus we have to have that faith. A level of faith which can be only received from our Lord. This is a gift, for our move to follow Jesus.

Now, what's immediately?

When Jesus said to James and John to follow Him. They Immediately left their ship and followed Him.

in our life immediately implies something important. Some task that much be done before all the tasks. Thus should be our following with Jesus, immediately. We shouldn't wait for the right time. When we have the calling we should leave aside what we are doing and follow Jesus.

It clearly doesn't mean in these days to leave everything and become saints. Everyone has a different calling. If we are followers of Jesus, we always get a good advise from our soul to do the right things according to Christ.

Like not picking up stationery from office to home, passing a needy person without helping him, Looking at orphan Children but saving money in banks, instead of providing the unfortunate.

From my personal experience the more I give the more I receive. People call me crazy but that is how we should be ready to help. Immediately and not knowing what will the consequence be. Lord will always help us out. We need to have faith.



We are today's Peter, Andrew, James and John, whom Jesus has asked us to follow Him. We think we have a lot of time to complete His tasks given to us on Earth. But by thinking so we are only fooling ourselves. While we are young we have a lot of energy and can take risks. Hence we should do things that will please our Lord more when we are young and able.

Bringing back our family together, helping the community, praying alone in secret and this should be done straight away and Immediately.

Why I began a This Blog

To start with the second blog, which will reflect what I read in the Bible and share what I learn from everything I read.

This will help me to sow in my heart what I read and spread the understanding I get while I read the Bible.

I have made notes and will slowly update all of them as and when I get time.

Happy Reading Stay Blessed!!