The halfbaked Bard

To Him who loves us and has fixed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a Kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father. Rev:1:5-6 What a privilege. Blessed privilege. Given. Gifted. Not earned. Not deserving. Not as wages.  But because of grace. Because of love. With my sin, I cannot even stand there And therefore because He loved, He freed. He paid the penalty. He faced the consequence. The very thing He abhored, He took up. For me. To make me Kingdom and priest. I deserved eternal hell. But He made me sit  In heaven. On a throne. Next to Him. With Him. With the Father. And the Holy Spirit. Just imagine. With the Almighty Supreme Ruler. For eternity. When I deserved only punishment  And eternal rejection. It is His doing  To Him be the honour and glory. Because He alone is worthy. What love is this? I cannot fathom. Who made His enemy His friend. Who made a wretch His treasure, His signet ring. Who made a worm, a king. What for? I do no...

Rev:1:4 Grace and peace to you from Him, who is, who was and who is to come. The Father. The Almighty. The Sovereign. No better description. Looks grammatically incorrect. But not time bound. Who exists from eternity to eternity. Not created. Exists beyond the creation of time. Exists beyond Gen:1:1. Describes further John:1:1. Beyond creation. Self existent. Even presently He is on the throne. He has not given it off to someone else to rule. He is Sovereign. He is the one who said, " I am who I am". Does not cease to exist. Has not aged or retired. Still in control. Still ruling with His same standards. Not only in the future His rule reigns. But He is to come, with His scepter of justice. Seated on the judgement throne. To bring an end to all so called injustice. For He is the righteous judge. He cannot and will not compromise on His standards. His reign still will go on. No matter, however He seems to be out of control in this revoltous and raucous world. He is...

Revelation is often considered a difficult book to understand. A book which you often can't make head or tail of. Full of prophecies about what is about to happen. How do you interpret it in the present scenario. Who is antichrist. Where is a loving God in this? Unanswered questions all around. But here is a promise. Rev:1:3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophesy and blessed are those who hear it and take it to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. The attempt is not to give full answers to all your questions. The attempt is to read and hear and believe, so that we would all be blessed. Because the time is very short. Read and hear and believe. And be blessed. Image courtesy:  https://www.theologyofwork.org/new-testament/revelation/

Jude 23 Hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. Oh! Child of God, what is your approach to stain? Why compromise to wear a cloth Which the Lord loathes It brings intense detest to Him! But it allures you. Why? It disgusts Him. It actually smells so bad. But why are you attracted to it? Why do you admire? Why do you cherish? This is not just on the clothing It spreads. It disseminates into you It makes the air around you impure too. It brings in a stench. It stinks like skunk. But why has it becomes a fragrance to you? Why don't you realise your folly? Why do you compromise the best To settle for something that is actually the worst. Love the Lord with all your heart, mind and soul. Love His holiness. And His purity. And detest whatever He detests. For sin cannot stand in His presence, but a forgiven sinner can. Image courtesy : gemini 

Kept by Jesus Christ Jude:1 Loved by Jesus Christ Predestined by Jesus Christ Saved by Jesus Christ Justified by Jesus Christ Sanctified by Jesus Christ Glorified by Jesus Christ. Kept by Jesus Christ. He who has taken care of your eternal future, will He not take care of your present? Isa:49:16 I have engraved you in the palms of my hands. John:10:28-29 No one can snatch them out of my hand. No one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. Kept by Jesus Christ. Where? In His own palms. Where is His palm? Underneath is the palms of the Almighty Sovereign God. He and the Father are one. In salvation He has kept you. For inheritance He has kept you. Predestined; not to leave you midway somewhere.  But to take you home with Him. He will take care. He is enough. He will bother.  He is in control. He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil:1:6 Image courtesy: gemini 

3John:11 Anyone who does what is good is from God. Being good is not something that you formulate within yourself. It is not something that you decipher out of nothingness. Not something you figure out in due course of your life. Not something that you strive to do. Jer:17:9 The hearts is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. The inherant nature of man is wickedness. And no good comes out of him. So any good that you think you do is according to God's standards like filthy rags, because it is marred by your filth. It cannot and will not please God. Only God is good. And only He is the source of all goodness. So unless God wills, noan can be good.  For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. My will, my determination, my inherant nature will not make me good. Only God's transforming Spirit will make me good. Apart from Him I have no goodness Image credit: gemini