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        ".....he fell to the ground in worship!"…Job 1:20   There is nothing unusual about this verse to understand because it's very common for us to fall on our knees and praise and worship! ! We all do it or have done it!            But it's very uncommon and extremely difficult for us to fall down and "worship", especially just after hearing a series of losses and disasters!!           Job is seen here doing just that!!          Job lost everything...Everything!! His wealth, his property,his life-long earnings and most importantly his children….all ten of them, on a single day!!        How great and unimaginable must be that loss!! In a matter of some hours,he was informed about the losses that happened ,the disasters that had taken place and the deaths of his loved ones...one after the other! Hearing all this ,he got up, tore his clothes and shav...

                 Seeing your empty chair ,me turning around but not finding you sipping coffee in your lungi or not seeing you listen to songs and sermons on youtube, you not reading your Physics books..this all seems very unreal to me! I cannot  accept  this reality where you are no more, Where i can’t  see you or hear you or talk to you or hug you  everyday.  Its almost a month since I have heard you call me Blessy!             Turning 31 today, without you,your physical presence,without you placing your hand on my head and praying @12 midnight,like every year ...... And thinking that it's going to be like this from now on is breaking me!             Over the past 10 yrs,i have many dates  fixed in my head, 11th May 2009, when I was suddenly diagnosed with a rare brain tumor, 25th May  ...

Luke 13:24 .. Jesus said "make every effort to enter through the narrow door...."         As a Sunday-school going young kid, I always imagined when a person died, he would go up to God and then God would show him two paths: a wide path and a narrow path, LITERALLY !! Like an actual wide road and a narrow road is placed in front of him and he has to make a choice,there and then! The wide path would lead to hell and the narrow road would lead to heaven .        The wide road was a Tar road, widespread and smooth and shiny, was very easy to walk on, looked very strong, good-looking, a concrete with no cracks ; a textbook "Pakka" road in hindi. ‎While the narrow path looked very parched and muddy and dusty with all cracks, and had red soil....a " Kaccha " road(I imagined my native place roads : my 'then' Kerala roads. ..("then" because now it's all Tarred ). A not-at-all smooth road with tiny stones and pebbles lying ...

Your Creator, The Creator of All is in control ! He holds the entire Earth and everything in it;  every being in it, everything seen and unseen; He holds the Earth and sustains the Heavens! He positions The Sun and The Moon in the sky! Galaxies and Planets were formed at his command! The Stars twinkle at his nod! He directs the wind the path it should take today and   assigns every season. He controls the weather. He tells the water of the sea where to stop and the land where to start from! He commands and things form . He commands things to be, to just BE!        Many times,we tend to forget that we look up to a God, who is ‘THE GOD’. I think because inspite of he being ‘The God’, 'The Maker of Everything' , he is also many other things to us; a Friend , a Father ,a Companion ,always a Comfortor, filled with love and He is love, Compassionate towards all, slow to become angry,is very considerate, is very patient with us, forgives u...

  The Bible is a Supernatural book with natural circumstances!   i.e.the bible is all about stories of normal everyday problems happening to ordinary people like you and me with some   supernatural encounters and experiences like supernatural healings   or supernatural events like a donkey talking (Numbers   22:21-35) or the sun-standing still upon Gibeon (Joshua10: 12-14) or water turning into blood in Egypt(Exodus7:19-24) or the parting of the Red Sea(Exodus 14:21-29) or Sarah giving birth to Issac at 90(Genesis 21:1-8) or Daniel in lion's den(Daniel 6) and many many more.It is a very relatable book because the author of it is God  (2 Timothy 3:16) who came down and became a man,Jesus! Therefore ' Natural ' situations mixed with ' Supernatural ' events!            So we come across stories of many who make mistakes and then regret making them and repent but then repeat, sometimes unknowingly but most of the...

  I recently happen to come across the testimony of  Joni Eareckson Tada,  an American Christian Evangelist  minister,  who had a diving accident at 17 which left her quadriplegic and on a wheelchair. After 43 years in a wheelchair,paralysed from shoulders down; keeping her faith intact; being an instrument for advancing God’s kingdom and speaking and writing about God’s faithfulness in her life, even with all her disabilities;  ministering to people worldwide from her wheelchair, starting organisations to accelerate Christian ministry in the disability community,  suddenly at age of 60 s he discovered that she had Breast cancer !!        When the doctor informed her that her tumor is malignant, she described; IT  JUST FELT LIKE DEATH!   ( https://www.christianpost.com/news/joni-eareckson-tada-not-shaken-by-breast-cancer.html ),   I ,personally could relate to her feeling because I had been through a somewhat...

     Matthew 8:23-27,Luke 8:22-25,Mark 4:35-41 t eaches us many things but the two main things that I underlined and re-underlined  were; a) Jesus was with the disciples, in the boat, when the storm hit! And b) Jesus was asleep!                 I remember one of the young kids in my church had send a forwarded message to my sister,many years back, when our family was going through some unexpected and sudden storms stating; ‘Having   Jesus IN YOUR BOAT   does not mean your boat wont go through   storms, it simply means your boat WILL   NOT sink’!                 True! Jesus was with the disciples, in the boat , but still the boat went through a storm! Their boat tossed and tumbled   in the raging waves. The disciples,though the bible doesn’t mention a number ,we know atleast four out of twelve were fishermen. So i...

Read: Genesis 29-16 to 30:24       The bible describes Leah as the weak-eyed or the dull-eyed sister i.e.kind of the ugly one ! !       Genesis 29:16-17 describes Rachel as the beautiful sister and Leah,the dull-eyed one. When The Bible; God-breathed words, didn’t mince words while describing Leah so then obviously,why would people around her be nice!          Leah must be dealing with this comparison all through her childhood. Her family, friends,relatives, neighbours, people …all must have compared her to her sister’s beauty! I can imagine her crying about this in her room.Guests telling Laban,their father, 'your younger one is so beautiful’,in front of Leah.         Even when she became a young adult, her father had to trick Jacob to marry her!(genesis 29:23,24). Why? Maybe because she got many proposals but got rejected when they saw her in person or maybe because her dad t...

A hymn that I have heard innumerable times like many Christians and have memorized the lyrics  very well as a kid and understood its meaning as a teen but actually understood the in-depth meaning of each word when I went through various life-experiences; it’s a shame that I learnt the story behind this meaningful   lyrics just recently!! This is an Indian-origin song! (I didn’t know that!) from Meghalaya, then known as Assam.          This story is from the book  Why God, Why?  by Dr. Peramangalam Job.  Dr. Job (1945-2012) was an internationally known evangelist.  He has been called the “Billy Graham of India.”        About 150 years ago, there was a great revival in Wales, England.  As a result of this, many missionaries came from England to northeast India to spread the Gospel.  The region was known as Assam and comprised hundreds of tribes.  The tribal communities were qu...

        Genesis 39:23 says  “ …., because the  Lord  was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.” But just above this verse;  v20 says ' Joseph  was put in prison’?! So that means ,there, in the prison, he had success?! Success and prison!?         Now we don’t associate success with prison. How can a person be successful if he lands up in a punishment facility.  Success and prison is a contradiction! That is a oxymoron!       Similarily Matthew 5:1-12 talks about ‘The Beatitudes’ which is derived from the latin word ‘beatus’ meaning ‘blessed’.This passage is filled with contradictory ideas: blessed are all those who mourn, blessed are all those who are persecuted or insulted ! How can you rejoice and be glad about persecutions and insults !(Matthew 5:12)       God says in Luke 6:38,Matthew 6:1-34,proverbs 11:24-25, Acts 20:35,etc  inorde...