The halfbaked Bard

Tell him to stop worrying Yes if you can be sure that the Lord is in control, you can stop worrying.  If you can be sure that you are in the palms of the Almighty, you can stop worrying If you know that He has led you before, you can stop worrying.  The weight might be heavy to bear.  You might feel crushed underneath.  Nothing is difficult for my Father Who is good and loving.  Do not worry for I am with you is the promise given by the Faithfule One.  Come to me all you who are weak and heavy laden, I will give you rest.  This is the One who bore it all on His shoulders.  He was lonely; He was isolated; He didn't have any back up.  Yet He clung on to the Father. And the Father delivered Him.  Do not be discouraged. Do not be anxious. Do not fret.  Make your burdens lighter in His presence.  Let your baggage fall at the foot of the cross Let the filthiness be washed away.  Let yourself be cleansed: made white a...

Not everyone is expected to be a C. S. Lewis or an A. W. Tozer or a Billy Graham. But you are expected to go. To reach out.  The question is directed to you. Whom shall I send? To that friend of yours whom you have seen as a loner, sitting in the corner of the classroom, always with a melancholic face.  Whom shall I send? To that friend who struggles with cancer, who is apprehensive about his future and how his family would survive without him.  Whom shall I send? To that young widow who wanted to start things beautifully and then life took an abrupt turn in her life for worse. Now not knowing how to go about.  Whom shall I send? To those parents who helplessly see their child slipping away; may be an ailment. May be rebellion.  I will go.  Not all Christians are oratious. Not all Christians are David Livingstones and Hudson Taylors. But you can be the light in your brother's life. Directing him to the God who loves him. Pulling him out of the d...

Isa:6:3 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven's Armies The whole earth is filled with His glory.  One of the greatest and most indispensable attributes of God. (though it doesn't mean that others are subordinate to it). That God is infalliable. The seraphs that Isaiah saw were singing of His holiness. So are the living creatures that John saw.  The fact that He is a holy God with no iota of sin in Him, creates a huge reverance and fear in our hearts. That is why Isaiah said, it is all over, I am doomed, for I am a sinful man, I have filthy lips and I live among people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the king the Lord of Heaven's armies. Peter also echoed , Go away from me, for I am a sinful man.  God's holiness and my sinfulness are in two extremes. God's purity only accentuates my wretchedness. It reveals it more. All I can do is to seek mercy; seek forgiveness. Helplessly run to Him to show mercy.  As we wall in His presence daily, let His holiness ...

In this time of love failures and suicides and revenge killing following rejection, what we understand is that, man is looking for a love that accomodates all your infirmities, iniquities and inadequacies. That there would be someone who would love you as you are. That they would accept you as you are.  A mother loves unconditionally. But a young man or girl rejects this unfailing love to go after the love he / she met yesterday, which they think is better than her love, who has sacrificed it all. Nullifying the value he / she gives to the lady who has given it all. It sounds irrational when you reject this love overflowing.  Even higher is God's love. You reject it, you consider it silly in your life when you choose to not see this love and give importance to your life, your passions or dreams. A God who gave it all. A God who is mindful of you.  Ps:100:5 His unfailing love continues forever. 

I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. Psalms 91:14 Acknowledge can either be a superficial term or a word with so much of in depth meaning.  It can either be a Hi. Or it can be that orientedness in every breath of your life.  Yes you can settle with the fact that God exists. At least you are better than the fool who says there is no God. But the acknowledgement He says in the Psalm 91 is the indepth knowledge you have about Him. The intimacy. The closeness to His bosom.  The fear of the Lord in Proverbs is the same. Being God aware, or God oriented is the key.  May God enable us to see the hand of God in every walk of our lives. 

How pathetic if you tie a rope to your sins and drag it along with you wherever you go? Enjoying glimpses of it. As you worship. As you talk to your colleague at work. When you are alone in the dark.  Why don't you want to let go fully? Knowing that it is for your ruin. The evil one is befooling you with lies. But all it does is hurt God and prove that you're a rebel.  You might fall occasionally. But do you nurture it? Do you relish it?  Untie those cords and let go. If you drag them along, the truth is you are the one who would walk haggardly. It is for freedom that you have been called. Do not let these hamper you from enjoying the rich full abundant life.  Each moment you realize a flaw in you, let go. Ask the Holy Spirit grace to enable you to repent and renounce. Do not carry the burden along.  Isa:5:18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them With ropes made ofnlies Who drag wickedness behind them like a cart. 

Isa:5:15-16 People will be brought low Humbled Arrogant will lower their eyes            The Lord will be exalted.  Why?  Because of justice. Because of God's holiness.  Because of His righteousness.  The startling contrast between man and God is the former's sinfulness and the latter's holiness. A righteous God's expectation of His creation to live a holy life, is justified. And because of man's fallen nature all he can do is to sin and rebel against God. Yet it is not His nature alone; his choice too.  All our righteous acts are like filthy rags. Isa:64:6 The righteous judge is seated on the throne. He will rightly judge all mankind of his words, thoughts and deeds and every single pride of mankind will be brought low. Every arrogance. Every self love will be demolished. Every single man will stand with head bowed low.  Yet there is hope. The righteous judge is my lover too. He loves me unconditionally. While I wa...