All in a name!

My name is a unique and blessed one! I love it and hold it close to my heart. It come down from my Grand Father. And its my duty to hand over to my grand son as and when I have one. However, outside of our community, my name is a puzzle: walking into a landmine traps sounds more like a cake walk! Trying hard to pronounce it right is challenging. Remembering it is perplexing! Or rather one is flummoxed!

Close friends send greeting but it ended up as if a cyclone has just hit me. My precious name is all jumbled up: Hamkola lungadhim, Lungding, Lumding just to mentioned a few. Flabbergasted! Don’t know what to do. Should I go by the Spirit and be happy. Or be annoyed and go overboard in angered over the disregard, disrespect that is so blatantly pompous and obvious in thier addressing of me.

Well, this experience does not end with me. It is the general encounter happening to all my fellow Kuki/Chin/Zomi kindreds! We are govern by the MINLUTO System of naming. My Grand Father is Limkhohem. I take the last syllable and hence my name Hemkholal come into existence. As and when I have a grand son, he will carry my last Syllable Lal and the remaining name will be my creativity. A unique name. That’s where the problem begins!

Who am I? Where do I come from? Why and for what purpose do I came into being? Multiple questions with little or no answer. That’s what life offer. My Root is what interest me but i cannot dig deep. The Rock come into picture and safe me from the futility of banging one’s head against it.

JESUS CHRIST is the Rock and a refuge that safe me from looking further for my roots, purpose in life, the why, where, how and other questions of life. He wipes away all my worries and tears of life. Comforted and assured and lovingly addressed “you are my servant. I did not reject you, but chose you. Do not be afraid-I am with you! I am your God-let nothing terrify you! ” Isaiah 41:9-10.

The Bible tell that Adam the first man was created by God Almighty in his own image and likeness. Adam is my Root.

Man was the crown of all creations. To rule over all creatures and things and be a glory in joy and happiness at Eden, walking side by side with the creator. That was GOD’S Plan.

In comes Satan, the great Serpent and deceiver. Eve a companion fell to flattery. Adam the head faltered on the charm of his life. Together into disobedience and sin and on the road ever to nowhere but in perpetual confusion and groping in the darkness. Confine in darkness, all one see is darkness! That’s what Satan has done to our existence.

The mighty and powerful Naga in the Hills, the supreme and Royal Meitei in the Valley. The voiceless and hapless Kuki is kicked around like a ball. That’s what life in Manipur is all about.

God in all his wisdom knows that man will never see the light of day if left to himself and in slavery to Satan and his kingdom of darkness. Hence, come JESUS CHRIST the son of God into the world to show and demonstrate the way to salvation is in LOVE. With an outstretched arms at the Cross he gave up his sin less and unblemished LIFE so that I and you who are deep in sin and under the clutches of Satan can have our freedom.

JESUS CHRIST is GOD’S Son. He died for you and me and rise up again. Thereby overcoming Satan and the wages of sin: death. Believe in JESUS CHRIST and Salvation is yours. You are counted righteous and counted too as a son or child of GOD. Leaving behind the sins and darkness and into a life in Christ and into his kingdom of LIGHT.

The world look us down. Ignored and brushed aside and used us as a scapegoat or or punch bag to be punched and kicked around as one pleased to let off your streams! But God does not neglect and ignore us. He loved us like all other human beings. Knowing this truth liberates me. Joy and happiness is all i can feel. And to tell the whole world the GOOD NEWS of JESUS CHRIST: that he come for one and all so that you live a life of abundance. And that in him is true LIFE and happiness. There is no place for hatred for we all are children of God gone astrayed by Satan.

Come into the loving presence of the Lord and Savior of the world JESUS CHRIST. Be rooted in him and be confused no more with Satan and his kingdom of darkness.

To all my Kuki/Chin/Zomi brothers in Christ. Life may treat you harshly. This is because we are God’s chosen people. God is HOLY and cannot tolerate sin and disobedience. Let us examine ourself, and seek God’s face. In JESUS CHRIST alone we can overcome the world.

In the light of the above, are we doing the right thing in not burrying our SALPHATE! I sincerely and honestly pray and believe Jesus Christ holds the answer to all our problems and ailments!

God appears to Solomon Again. 2 Chronicles 7:11-22.