Hi again‚
The other day I was watching "War of the Worlds" a Spielberg movie. It was about seemingly indestructible aliens invading our planet and about mans pathetic resistance to them. However in the end the aliens start dying one by one and the narrator says "from the moment they arrived‚ breathed our air‚ ate and drank they were doomed"." After all of mans weapons and devices had failed‚ they were undone‚ destroyed‚ by the tiniest creatures that God in his infinite wisdom‚ had put on earth".
Isn’t it amazing that ultimately when everything else fails God is the only answer? may of us call out to him and get the answer‚ many don’t call out but still he‚ in his mercy provides‚ some recognize the hand of God in that provision‚ some don’t. Why? I guess no one has the answer. Maybe we with our bloated ego do not want to acknowledge the hand of God in our lives or let others know that you are depending on God for fear of ridicule.
Long time back I remember when my sister told me her testimony of a healed ear‚ I felt ashamed of her at that point of time. I was saying to myself‚ what’s wrong with her‚ why can’t she go to good ENT and get it cured? Why does she go and attend prayer meetings with religious fanatics and claim all this? Sincerely at that point of time I felt ashamed that she should go for such a meeting.
I remember the time when we had a college mates‚ old friends‚ whatever new year eve reunion and how most of us where high and how we were having a party on the terrace of a friends place and how at the same time his relatives where having a prayer in the house below and how one of us went down the stairs and poked his head through a window and scared the wits out of them. To us at that point of time‚ the people in that room praying were a wayward bunch of fanatics who had nothing better to do on a New Year eve.
Sometimes when I look back‚ I feel maybe they would have joined hands and prayed for the wayward bunch on the terrace‚ because most of the guys n gals who were there on that day have all given their life to Jesus at some point of time in life and are in full time ministry. Only a few like me are still on the border holding it out and weighing the pros and cons. I know there are no pros and cons here but then‚ the I in me‚ I feel is yet to give up.
I had a lot of friends‚ but after I accepted Jesus the number of friends I have lost I feel is tremendous‚ some of them don’t call back or answer telephones‚ some don’t reply to emails‚ some don’t bother acknowledging your very existence‚ Some of the relatives look at you in bewilderment and ask through looks are you sure you are O.K.?
But I guess even though it hurts at times‚ it is O.K.‚ because I can pray for them without any inhibitions and know for sure that god will do his work in their lives as he did in my life .
This New Year I would like to spend some time for all the friends and relatives who have passed through my life and for all those who are still there with a very simple prayer. It says in Mark 11:24 that" therefore I tell you whatever you ask for in prayer‚ believe that you received it and it is yours.(NIV)
Lord I thank you for all the wonderful friends and relatives that you gave me‚ please bless them immensely in the year 2006 and help them to move closer to you and I want to pray for those friends and relatives who passed through my life and moved away after I came to know you‚ please bless them also immensely in 2006 and help them to know you in truth and spirit. Help them to shed all inhibitions and help them to let go off traditions. Help them to know that there is only one true God and that he exists‚ not in different sects or different forms but as one. Help them to understand in depth‚ the few basic simple teachings that are required to follow you in truth and spirit. Amen.
And hey wish you all a fantastic 2006 filled with right kind of spirit!
Lots love n prayers
Suraj Jacob
For God so loved the world‚ that he gave his only begotten Son‚ that whosoever believeth in him should not perish‚ but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16-17
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