I am and therefore God Is! Who Is Your God?

I suspect that much of our suffering is often than not a result of ignorance and our failure to understand God and the concept of God due to the littleness of our finite minds

Our problem is neither God nor existence that we cannot fathom them. Our problem is the littleness of our minds that cannot grasp Big minds like Him. We are midgets in a desert of life trying to figure out the geography of the surroundings and that without a Compass  and again often with wrong tools, too!

If you can't step into your soul, I fear that you are not ready to step into your day today and now! Double check and just make sure you know who you really are today. It may save you from almost half of your potential pains as the day unrolls. Wised up?

If you can't step into your soul, I fear that you are not ready to step into your day today and now!...

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Surprised by Justice: Where are those Accusers?

“When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.”(John 8:10-11, KJV)

 

It seems that it is easy to throw stones at offenders of our norms than it is to mend our own fences and hide our own nakedness. Of course, that should not be a surprise because the benefits of stoning others especially when they are on the wrong side of the law and “condemned” are obvious.

It does not only feel great and fulfilling to do so because it feeds our animalistic sadistic craving for carnival, but more importantly it temporarily covers our own criminal nakedness.
The more zealous we appear in purging out the “evil” from others and our society in general, the more saintly we appear to onlookers and the least suspected we stand in the arena of evil. It is that simple!

Goliaths Too, Fall

“And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.”( 1Sam 17:49I Samuel 17:49,50 KJV)

If there are any take home lessons from the duel between the Biblical Goliath and David (1Sam. 17:1-51) then perhaps one of them is this:  giants too, fall. What that means to me is that I have to perpetually be on the watch against that blinding pride that evacuates the Holy One of Israel out of my life and leaves me vulnerable to the “stones”of the enemy.

Goliath had no reason to lose the battle against David. First he was well poised in stature. Standing at about “seven feet tall” (1 Samuel 17: 4, NET), who would dare come closer to him? Besides, his entire body was cast in iron armour. It is no surprise to me that no one did (1 Sam. 17:4-11). The man was in all human appearances and terms unconquerable! Period!

OF CANAANITES AND GRASSHOPPERS!

“And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it,[is] a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”—Numbers 13: 32-33, (KJV)

Today, I thought that we should reflect on “Canaanites” and“Grasshoppers”! The text I have just quoted above talks about “grasshoppers”and “the land”— terms which refer to the “children of Israel” and the country of Canaan, respectively. I have taken this story from the “Big Book” some call the “Bible”.

I have not fallen for this story just because it can teach somebody some morals—no. I have done so because it is real and not merely a mythical fantasy from some mythology books of the East.

Preamble

For those of us who may not be very familiar with the story behind the issue the excerpt brings up, here is a brief preamble:

The Israelites had completed about two years of wandering in the wilderness after evacuating Egypt at the behest of Yahweh, their God (…). By this time they had reached the borders of Canaan, their destination.Therefore, their leader, Moses decided to send twelve spies to snoop on the land and how they would attack it. They did and the excerpt is their“intelligence report” to Moses in the hearing of all Israel.

 Wrongly Convinced Spies

As their report reveals, what the spies saw in Canaan intimidated them. It was not just such a wonderful country where anyone would want to live but it also had the best of men in the world—strong and tall! Giants as they call them. The spies were ashamed of their own stature and despised themselves for being what they were.

They did not only believe what the Canaanites said about them but they also convinced themselves that they could not do anything and they were probably right! “Grasshoppers” without God can do nothing. Therefore,quickly, they moved a motion asking the leadership to suspend any military plans they had against these giants because, in the opinion of these spies, no one could stand the latter.

WHEN YAHWEH BECOMES YOUR POSTMAN

“Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.”—Isaiah 65:24.

Back in 1924, during the Great War, a young Spaniard soldier sat in his tent writing a letter to ask his captain to give him Saturday off so that he could observe the Sabbath according to his faith. He was a Seventh-day Adventist. He had been praying to God for his captain to grant him the opportunity. But it was hard.

This day, as he was just about to finish his letter, he heard his name being called to go out for an inspection. At that moment a wind began to blow and blew his letter away from him.

After a fruitless search for the letter, he simply decided to go ahead and attend the inspection and continue the search for the letter later.

To his surprise, he was returning to his tent after the inspection when his captain upon seeing him, called him to his office. 

THE BIGGEST BIGGER OF THE BIGGEST IS HERE

“The LORD is with you, mighty warrior…”—Judges 6:12

A father once asked his little boy to go and buy a packet of sugar and some basic stuff for the home in the night. The hour was very late into the night and it was dark. The boy felt fearful but he had to oblige. Noting the fears in his son the father promised to stand on the road to watch over the little one as he went to the shop just a few meters away from their home. 

“Go, son. I am here watching over you. Nothing will harm you. Go. Run. Fast. Okay?”

“Yes, dad. But promise me. Won’t you run away the moment I move away from you?” 

“No. Son. Go! Hurry up!”

The boy started off. Every step he turned back to check if dad was keeping the promise. 

“Dad, are you there?” he asked every time he turned.