There are two kingdoms. Each can be a citizen of one, not both at any time. So too, light and darkness are totally opposite. You are either in the light or in the dark. You can never be both at one time. Not knowing what you are? Not knowing where you stand? Not knowing where you head? Well, one can be compared to a ball in water tossed around by the wind and the storm. A miserable life with no direction and meaning. The wind, the storm and the elements and vagaries of nature is what drives you!
That’s what the message of JESUS CHRIST is all about. The world we live in is the Kingdom of Satan. From our birth to our death, we are subjected under his EVIL clutches. A slave with no voice of our own but directed to speak out our Master’s voice: in sins and disobedience and on the way to destruction and despair!
“Now I am going to make food rain down from the sky for all of you. The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. Exodus 16:4. God’s plan is to let us live in peace and joy. Not worry about the future. Rest in his words, your daily needs will be provided. But, we heed not.
The Satan in us lead. Why only for today. You are capable of bringing in more! In comes things, blindly you keep accumulating. Your desires become your need; even dream becomes a pain. You must have it by any mean or else life is meaningless! Tossed around into stress and worries with no end in sight! And God your creator in whose hand lies your happiness is left out in the latch. Why o why!
The answer is simple. Satan has been rebuked into submission by JESUS CHRIST. Man shall not live by bread alone. Worship only the Lord your God. And finally, off Satan! Do not put the Lord your God to the test.
So long as Satan is your guide. He is comfortable with you airing platitudes! Speak to us God, and we will obey it. That’s what the Israelites under Moses does. The Lord gave them law, they hammered a golden Calf. Celebrating fully drunk and dancing into sexual immortality and orgies and to thier destruction. Satan will never take you to God for he stands rebuked and is destined for punishment!
JESUS is the new covenant. Your life of sins and imperfections with Satan as the driving force can never take you to God. He stand rebuked and will only take you to destruction along with him. Only in surrendering your life to JESUS CHRIST and his finished works at the Cross. Your wretched life can be transform into the glorious life of abundance joy, peace and happiness that God destined for you.
The peace and tranquility in Eden was shattered by Satan in seeding a future based on lies and untruth: you will not die but become wise! The result is sin and disobedience comes in. And along with them death and destruction!
God’s voice remains the same. Obey my words and live. Seek my kingdom first and the rest of your needs will be taken care of. Don’t worry about what will happen tommorow. I will rain in your manna for the day.
All we need to do today is to surrender to JESUS CHRIST. He has already overcomes the world for us. He is GOD’S free gift. We take him in, HE does the rest. We are counted righteous ever. Satan flees, we walks in the path of righteousness with the LIGHT of the World always in us.
JESUS CHRIST is the first and the last. The beginning and the end. He knows you in and out. Putting your life in his loving and gracious hand is the best you can do to your life. He cares for the birds in the air and the lilies of the wild. How much more we are for we were made wonderfully, fearfully and in his own image and likeness.
India is changing! Livelihood for the poor in the form of MGNREGA, Cleanliness drives (Swachh Bharat mission) and Demonitisation drive for cleaning up of our economy ring in good tidings and bodes well for all. I see God’s hand. JESUS CHRIST the King of Kings loves our land where in the likes of Gandhi, Mahavira, the Buddha whose loves for humanity shines out brightly once walks our sacred soils.
Come take Jesus Christ into your life. Stand firmly, no longer to be tossed by the storms and winds of life. But to be a LIGHT for the lost and those in despair into the Kingdom of God.
The Manna and the Quails. Exodus 16.
God and possessions. Mathew 6:24-34.