What is Love?

When someone says, "I don't love you anymore," it shakes you to your very core. It caused me to ponder the true meaning of love as never before. After many years, I arrived at the only definition that makes any sense. Since God is love and we must compare our love to him, we come up short if we define it any other way.

For you see, in the final analysis, "Love is a commitment with a beginning and no end." Christ chose to love us and he has never stopped. He never will. We should be very careful with a word like love. Are we willing to make that kind of commitment?

Commitment / Dedication

Lessons From a Tree

If Thou canst make so wonderful
This thrilling thing—a tree,
I wonder, Lord, what Thou couldst make
If man should yield to Thee;

If every time earth-born root
Drank from the wells of God,
If all day long his every breath
Answered Thy slighted not'
Bent, twisted, gnarled, time-eaten,
But a glorious thing this tree,
With hands and heart uplifted
Seeking the face of Thee!

O Thou who made us wondrous fair
This trilling thing, my tree,
Because its every hour is lived an offering unto Thee,
Oh, take me, root and branch and all(The years go on apace!)
Grow up in me that radiant life
That shines, Lord, from Thy face!

Give me 100 men who hate nothing but sin and love God with all their hearts and I will shake the world for Christ!” - John Wesley

Live Life To The Fullest

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. - Jeremiah 29:11

These are fabulous words.

The bit we often miss

Now look at the promises in the next verses:

"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

- Jeremiah 29:12-14

“Yay Lord!” I hear us all cry. Verses 11-14 are just the tonic we need. But did you see verse 10 - it’s going to take a while to happen.

This is what the LORD says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place."

What should we do while we wait?

What are we meant to do for those 70 years?! The answer is to be found in verses 4 to 9

"This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.

Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

Bottomline: Enjoy your life that HE has given you. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

I Am Legend - I am The Great I AM

It was Christmas yesterday. Time was spent in fellowship with brothers in Christ. Watched I Am Legend with them before battling it out in battlefield 2. Though I found the movie really boring and that it could have done much better in terms of action and effects, the movie did bring about some thoughts.

I am Legend - Light up the darkness

Will Smith's character seems like a Christ figure. He is the I Am Legend. God says that He is the great I Am. In the previews Smith is immune to the virus that has effected NYC. He is the only one alive, everyone else is dead. Christ being the only one alive when everyone is dead in sin. And Christ provides the "immunity" to the dead. Smiths character says, "I can help you. I can stop this."

In the movie there are two kinds of people left in the world: Light-dwellers and dark-dwellers. Will Smith is one of the few light-dwellers left in the world. The majority however are crazed zombies who can only come out at night because sunlight will burn and kill them

Towards the end of the movie, (Beware: Plot spoiler!)

Smith comes out as a Christ-figure before the raging zombies, holding up the blood that might cure them if they would only accept it. Smith culminates the Christ-parallel by giving the blood away and then sacrificing himself in order to make the blood available to other people.

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Not to over-spiritualise the movie (the movie also have dialouges and imagery of Christianity),

Much like a documentary that can be found on discovery channel, the movie introduces the theme of Light vs Darkness, the foundation of the Christian Faith and interestingly the struggles of a person of faith.

A show that brings out the heart of Christianity amidst the proliferation of meaningless movies.

I rate it 2.5/5 stars though, for the lack of better effects and action. :p

The Best Gifts

To your enemy, forgiveness;

To an opponent, tolerance;

To a friend, your heart;

To a customer, service.

To mankind, love;

To every child, a good example,

To yourself, respect,

To God, yourself