What See You

Theme: All things are possible with God who is with you, only if you would look to him


The red sea in front of them
The armed Egyptian army behind them
Seeing these peoples heart melted within them
Moses saw only God that was there for them

Joshua and Caleb with the twelve
Saw the land of Canaan and people dwell
Good land of fruits with giants strong as hell
Only Joshua and Caleb of the lord did tell

David hid in mountains and ran round
With King Saul and his army around
Shadow of Death and valleys surround
Yet believed he in the masters rod and staff and stood ground.

So u see troubles around you
Do u see medical reports against you
Do u see problems upon you
Just focus on him and ask yourself what see you.

Virtual Reality of life

Theme: Live life today doing things that you would enjoy and worth doing as if it were to be the last day of life.

Seasons in life change as the days age
Old leaves making way for the new
The ultimate reality in life
For which the mind is often unprepared.

Kings and their glories shade away
Many mighty conquerors noiseless lay
No one could ever have a say
Against the appointed time and day

The moments we closed our eyes to dream of dreams
Of a better richer world which in the end does matters.
The things that we failed to share with others will never be shared,
Moments lost without showing love and affection will never be undone.

Life and people of today may never return
Precious moments once lost are gone forever
Enjoy every day being happy and sharing joy
Like it is the last day before the final dawn.

Edith Taylor - Love Personified

Karl and Edith Taylor lived in a small apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts. They lived happily for 23 years and they loved each other very much. Karl was a government warehouse worker. In February 1950 the government sent Karl to Okinawa, Japan for a few months to work in a warehouse there. Although he was in the habit of sending to his wife some small gifts and postcards wherever he was sent to work, a short time after Karl went to Okinawa, hardly any postcards or gifts reached her. Also his assignment, which was supposed to have been only for a few months, got extended and extended mysteriously. Edith thought, her husband must be very busy; now he may have to work, cook, do shopping, clean his place of stay, etc. Perhaps he did not have time to write. In the meantime, Edith, who was a deeply committed Christian got an idea; why not I give a surprise to Karl when he gets back. She worked hard and gave a down payment to buy a small house.

However, after a short time Edith got a letter from Karl: “Dear Edith, I wish there were a kinder way to tell you that we are no longer married…” Karl married a 19 year old servant girl called Aiko, from Okinawa. Edith was 48. Although it was surprising and shocking to Edith, she took the whole matter to the Lord in prayer. Instead of getting filled with anger and hatred towards Karl, she felt compassion for Karl, a lonely man who always leaned on Edith for help. She felt compassion for Aiko too, a, penniless, perhaps illiterate girl who desperately needed a life partner.

Karl wrote one day that he and Aiko were expecting a baby. Marie was born in 1951; then Helen in 1953. Edith felt compassion and sent little gifts for the children. After sometime she got a letter to say Karl was in the hospital dying of lung cancer; he had hardly any money for the hospital bills. Edith sent some money. Also, she did all that she could do so that Karl could die in peace.

After his death, Edith offered Aiko’s two girls education in America, as all the money Karl saved for the children were spent on hospital bills. Although it was very hard to part with the children (they were the only reason for her to live on this earth), she finally accepted the offer and sent the children to Edith. Edith worked hard to take care of the children and their education. In a few years time she became very weak and sickly. She realized, she was getting old and the girls needed help. She decided to bring Aiko from Japan. However, Aiko was still a Japanese citizen and the immigration quota had a long waiting list of many more years. By this time, newspapers published this wonderful story of forgiving love. Many petitions were forwarded to Congress. A special bill speeded through Congress and in August 1957 Aiko Taylor was permitted to enter the United States.

As Aiko came down the stairs from the plane at New York Airport, what happened ? Naturally Edith had every right to hate and to be furious and take revenge against Aiko. She could have told her, “You are the one who destroyed my marriage of 23 years. You destroyed my life, my family, my future, my happiness, my health, my wealth, my husband” etc. etc. Instead, Edith went and warmly hugged Aiko and Aiko wept on Edith’s shoulders! Aiko found in Edith a love and compassion which she could not get even from her late husband.

Decoding the "Saint"

Often we come across the word "saint" .... this post is just to understand what "saint" is all about from a christian perspective.

First point of view

When we call someone a saint... yes saint, but compared to whom? i mean its possible that a person who killed 10 persons calls another person who killed 1 person as a saint, this comparison is absurd, but thats wat we normally do, a bigger sinner calling a lesser sinner a saint :)

Second point of view

When God has made us and called us with a very great calling, God knows our state, yet in his eyes we are all children who would grow to the state he desires, ofcourse through a path of nudge,scrubbing,refining etc etc. One quality of God is "he calls things that are not as though they were" so he sees us as 100% full fruits and we are growing towards that ... so yes with eyes of faith since we are washed by the blood of the lamb we do well to declare to the devil and associates that we are no longer under sin but we are saints.

Eric Liddell

Eric Liddell, often called the "Flying Scotsman" after the record breaking locomotive, was born in Tianjin (formerly transliterated as Tientsin) in North China, second son of the Rev & Mrs James Dunlop Liddell who were Scottish missionaries with the London Missionary Society. Liddell was born in 1902 and went to school in China until the age of five. At the age of six, he and his brother Robert, eight years old, were enrolled in Eltham College, Mottingham, a boarding school in England for the sons of missionaries. Their parents and sister Jenny returned to China. During the boys' time at Eltham their parents, sister and new brother Ernest came home on furlough two or three times and were able to be together as a family - mainly living in Edinburgh.

At Eltham, Liddell was an outstanding sportsman, being awarded the Blackheath Cup as the best athlete of his year, playing for the First XI and the First XV by the age of 15, later becoming captain of both the cricket and rugby union teams. His headmaster described him as being 'entirely without vanity'.

Eric Liddell became well-known for being the fastest runner in Scotland while at Eltham College. Newspapers carried the stories of his successful track meets. Many articles stated that he was a potential Olympic winner, and no one from their country had ever won a gold medal before.

During the summer of 1924, the Olympics were hosted by the city of Paris. Liddell was a committed Christian and refused to run on Sunday (the Christian Sabbath), with the consequence that he was forced to withdraw from the 100 meters race, his best event. The schedule had been published several months earlier, and his decision was made well before the Games began. Liddell spent the intervening months training for the 400 meters, an event in which he had previously excelled. Even so, his success in the 400m was largely unexpected. The day of 400 meters race came, and as Liddell went to the starting blocks, an American masseur slipped a piece of paper into Liddell's hand with a quotation from 1 Samuel 2:30, "Those who honor me I will honor." He not only won the race, but broke the existing world record with a time of 47.6 seconds. A few days earlier Liddell had competed in the 200 metre finals, for which he received the bronze medal behind Americans Jackson Scholz and Charles Paddock, beating Harold Abrahams, who finished in sixth place. (This was the second and last race in which these two runners met.)

His performance in the 400 metres in Paris remained a world record for four years, and a European record for 12 years.

Love

Today morning just happened to think abt love, its true meaning and power. love indeed is supreme compared to any other thing a person can ever have, love can pardon, can uphold, can shoulder, love stands out even when death is past!

Where are you?

we find God asking adam and eve "where are u" .... when they were hiding themselves after the sin of disobedience... clearly points out that "just disobedience" was not the single deciding factor. if disobedience was the only factor then as soon as the woman ate that fruit we could have had a scenario where an angel met them with judgment instead of God himself coming down and asking them something like "where are u"...

we find similarities with this instance and the life of king Saul, when samuel questions saul after the war ... saul point to the people and says "the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God" ... and God removed his fellowship from Saul - and we know the punishment that came upon him was great

in davids life .... even though his sin was great, he immediately repented when the prophet met him .... ofcourse he had some punishment .... but God did not remove his presence from David ...

and to get back this fellowship between God and man ... Christ had to offer himself as a sin offering.