Faith

 A strong Faith perseveres in God and humbly waits upon God with hope, even when our understanding fails to comprehend times and circumstances and God's will.

Love God

Love God through repentance: acknowledge your sins and renounce your sins and amend your life in Love.

Love God through humility:  acknowledge God's authority in your life and govern your life by the commandment of Love; willingly accept God's plan for your life— and patiently bear your daily cross.

Love God through kindness and charity:  help the needy and the orphans; administer justice to the needy; use your time and talents generously for good cause.

Love God through suffering:  patiently bear your sufferings and difficulties of life; willingly accept suffering from God's hand;  attend to the sick; help those in distress— comfort them.

Love God through forgiveness: forgive the people who hurt you and ill-treated you; all those who unloved you; all those who despised you; all those who abused you; all those who cursed you.

Love God through reconciliation: reconcile your life with God;  reconcile with your spouse; reconcile with your parents; reconcile with all those with whom your relationship has gone sour.

Love God through gentleness: be gentle and polite and peaceable, in dealing with all people— and especially when people oppose you; be gentle when you correct people who wrong you.

Love God through patience and understanding: be patient, when your life is tested by adverse circumstances; be patient and understanding with all those who ill-treat you, irritate you and speak calumny against you; be patient with yourself— with your weaknesses; shortcomings and your sins.

Love God through mercy: be merciful to all those who seek your pardon and mercy; be generous to the needy.

Love God through obedience: be obedient to God's commandment; be obedient to your parents (love them; respect them; be kind to them; sympathize with them); be obedient to your superiors/employers; be obedient to those who demand your obedience viz. the governing body of a nation.

Do everything conscientiously—  as a love offering to God.

The burden of life— burden of sin

The burden of life feels heavy and unbearable¹. But truly, it is not the burden of life, that lays heavy on us— it is the burden of sins, that lays heavy on our heart and our soul.

The tempter subtly deceives us in believing the heaviness of the burden of life— and averts our heart from considering the burden of sin.

When the burden of sin is removed from our heart through repentance, and the yoke of love is laid on our shoulders, our burden feels light— the yoke of Jesus is easy and light². The yoke of love is a mighty strength, and a strong rampart³  for our heart.

Although, the burden of life still persist— we now have a Peaceful heart, which is yoked with the love of Christ.

A Peaceful heart, at Peace with God, has unflagging strength to live happily under any circumstances, and carry every burden of life— easily and willingly.

1. When we get too involved in the activities of the world— all we reap is a burden of restlessness (our restless heart seeks the satisfactions of the world; it seeks the appreciation from the world; it seeks the love from the world; it seeks praise and honour from the world) and dissatisfaction (dissatisfaction with the life we are living; with the job; with the salary; with your spouse etc.).
Restlessness and dissatisfaction is a burden which every worldly heart carries. A heart that is burdened with anxiety; restlessness; dissatisfaction and sin, has not the strength to endure the burden of life.


2. With Christ on our side, nothing seems burdensome; no suffering seems unbearable. When our restless heart seeks the love of God— it is truly consoled and relieved from the burden of sin.

3. No evil can overcome the power of Jesus's Love. No evil can divide a heart; a family; a world, that is built on Jesus's  commandment of Love— that's why Jesus commanded us to build our life on HIS Love— that our heart and our life may rest in HIS Peace.

Live in Love— live in God's Peace

A heart that is built on Love;
A family that is built on Love;
A community that is built on Love;
A city that is built on Love;
A nation that is built on Love;
A world that is built on Love— lives in God's Peace.

Love perseveres in God and unites us with God— and God keeps the unity, and guards the unity of HIS people with HIS Peace.
A world that is built on Love— lives in God's Peace.
For where Love lives— there, God lives.
And where God lives— there, Peace reigns.

Be Watchful

God is always with us.
And HE speaks to our heart, through words of the Holy Bible; through people; through events and circumstances.

Through the current circumstances, God is warning us about the fate of our sinful and unrepentant life.

Those who have built their life on solid rock— on  persevering Faith and Love of God, are secured now and for eternity. No disaster or enforcement can quarantine their Faith and Hope in God. Their Faith proves strong, undeterred by the calamity, and their life will continue in Peace of God, as ever, when the wave of difficult circumstances is over.

But as for those, who have built their life on sand— on Pride; vanity and unbelief— retribution keeps waiting for them on the day of doom. Their life blindly continues on the path of ruin, with a restless heart that seeks the transitory peace of the world. Their heart is lulled by the peace of the world, and their eyes are prevented from foreseeing their ruin.

Reflecting on the parable of "wise and foolish virgins"— our life progresses through pleasant, difficult and inevitable moments, and eventually reaches the "last hour" of our life— an hour of fear; an hour of confusion; an hour of powerlessness and helplessness; an hour of inactivity.
Then, there will be no time to turn back or borrow oil— no time for repentance and amendment of life; No certainty to expect a miraculous Grace, to receive the gift of Faith in God.

The 'lamp' that the foolish virgins¹ carried is— the faith in the false securities of the world; false hope of the world; pride in their own potential. The spurious light of the world subtly leads our life to gloom. Once in gloom, there will be no hope for those who foolishly traded their life with the satisfactions of the world— their lamp cannot  be lit again.

The wise virgins²  carried the 'lamp' of Faith³  in God. Even though, at times, the 'children of light' find themselves in a gloom, they can renew the strength of their Faith (light their lamp) by the Grace of  God, and rise again.

Faith in God, is not something that can be easily acquired at the last moment. And deeds of charity⁴ cannot be performed at the last hour. One cannot hopefully expect to enter into God's kingdom, at the expense of Charity performed by the Faithful ones. Furthermore, each one's deeds in Charity will scarcely suffice to justify their life in Christ.

Our Faith in Christ, needs to be accompanied by deeds of Charity— as a proof of our love for Christ— that we do not attract God's rebuke— of being 'evildoers' and be condemned.

Those who have perseveringly advanced through life, with their lamp of Faith, lit up with the deeds of Charity, will come to a fruitful end— their soul will be ready to enter into God's wedding feast.

As for those, who have lived their life hoping in the false securities of the world; in unbelief, and their seeming faith in Christ— will find themselves rejected— condemned to Eternal damnation.

1. The children of the world.

2. The children of light.

3. Faith in Jesus Christ— the 'living word' — that gives us Eternal light.

4. Deeds of Charity is the 'oil' — which cannot be bought or borrowed at the last moment.

Our 'lamp' of Faith always needs to be lit up with the deeds of Charity (oil). Our deeds of Charity in reverence of God, shines like a bright light on our path, and brings us safely to our Eternal Home.

A little sincere Love— as small as a mustard seed

If a little Faith, as small as a mustard seed, can move mountain.
Then, our sincere love¹ and sincere resolve²  to live in God— although small as a mustard seed, will move God's heart to relent³.

1. Sincere love— calls for amendment of life— renouncing all the sinful ways of life: Pride; self-centeredness; pride that defies God; disbelief in God; half-heartedly practicing religion, with the pretence of Piety; blasphemy; dishonesty; avaricious; haters of good; abusive; disobedience to Parents; disrespect to Parents; unloving; unforgiving;  infidelity in marriage; Abortion; Divorce; sins of lust (promiscuity; homosexuality; adultery; sins of youth ); killing; human trafficking; slander;  false witness; perpetrating violence; treachery; wicked and selfish plans that sow discord among the nations; and every sin that goes against God's commandments of Love.

2. To live in God, through repentance.

3. To forgive us our sins; to heal us and save us from every danger that threatens our life.


Everything (our work; actions and feelings) in our life needs a touch of sincerity— as an offering in Love, and reverence to God.

Forgive us, Heavenly Father— for we have sinned

We are anxiously and desperately seeking to be delivered from this deadly pandemic.
But the greatest pandemic that has ever affected the world, and has continued for generations is— our unbelief in God; our indifference to God and our sins.

Our unbelief in God is more dangerous than any fatal pestilent disease and evil.
Pestilence and evil can do physical harm or fatally endanger our life.
Unbelief  can do an irreversible damage to our soul and can lead us to eternal damnation.

Calamities and tribulations befalls us not to destroy us, but to warn us— to turn away from sin; from our indifference to God and to turn towards God.

Like the stubborn, unbelieving and unrelenting Pharaoh, do we need a lash of tribulations to bring us to our knees?— to acknowledge our sins and repent like the people of Nineveh.

A brief respite caused Nineveh to believe in God and renounce their sinful ways.
Nineveh repented— and God relented.

A temporary standstill has allowed nature to refresh and heal itself.
But our human heart, human life, and human soul cannot heal on its own— it needs the Grace of God.

We should acknowledge God and seek HIS forgiveness for our unbelief; our indifference and our sins.
We should seek first to be delivered from this evil, which corrupts our heart and separates us from God.

For the Lord God says: "at one stroke I would subdue¹ your enemies and turn my hand against your adversaries— if only my people would listen to me, and walk in my ways."

For our God, is a God who saves.
For our God, is a God who is compassionate and rich in Faithful Love.
For our God, is a God who relents and who never fails to help us at any time or place.

1. Psalm 81:13-14