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Growing In The Dark!

     1John 3:9 tells us we have ‘God’s seed in us’.This was beautifully explained by a teacher of the word by using a plant-seed!          Imagine a seed. This seed already has the embryo in it to transform into a tree, but then for it to be a huge, fruitful, leafy tree it has to go through processes.          First of all , the seed should no longer want to be a seed but would want to be a tree i.e. it has to die to itself! Then it has to be buried, in the ground,into the darkness with dirt clothing it. The dirt , the soil covering it is actually supplying the needed nutrients to the seed. This seed remains dormant,as if asleep till  the right conditions and moisture levels are present. And then it bursts !        It bursts and small roots start popping. These roots  [i am also imparting botanical knowledge]  grow down  and deep and push the plant to grow above the soil. The roots make themselves strong and deep enough ,holding tightly to the soil,making it difficult to uproot t

WE live By FAITH and not BY SIGHT!

      Luke 18:43 "-.....when all people saw it,they Also praised God."  ..the word that caught my attention here was "SAW" -the people  saw  the blind man being healed and they  praised  God.       People need to see something in order to believe! They argue about God not existing because they can't see him. It seems difficult for humans to believe that God is a spirit and so then people get creative and make different colorful idols of various shapes and forms for themselves to worship and call as God!.     Then there are these age-old questions; if God exists, why do Christians have health diseases, why do they suffer,why do people die of accidents, why is there evil in this world, why is this and that happening? I always feel that most people …not all but most people who will ask you ‘why and what’ don’t want to actually believe in the truth because like I said in my previous quiet time study Christianity Is A Lifestyle! : being a serious Christian in