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Practical Christianity

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By EMN Updated: Jul 21, 2016 12:00 am

The teachings in the bible are miraculous. It is one old book anyone would say but it’s new every time we read it. God is not a subject meant for certain people to discuss. Any age group enjoy the wonderful works of God our father. Let us examine how God generously gave His only begotten child to save our life from the hands of evil. Jesus Christ who has the same power as God the almighty choose to suffer the worst of treatment so that you and I can be free and enjoy our life for the work He had already made perfected for us. The world suffers today because we refuse to love God genuinely with all our hearts. We are never punished for the sin committed but the sin itself punishes us. To live a happy and contented life God has given us the human manual which is called the ‘ Bible ‘ for us to read and carry out what it says about ‘how to live our lifes’. Some people as Christians follow only those selected scriptures which are easy to follow but being a true christian nothing of the word can be skipped or omitted. These kind of Christians cannot be trusted because they’ve failed in major areas in christian life’s. While anyone is practising the whole rules/ laws in the bible, is there any way/reason to doubt their Christianity ? Failing Christians never succeed in anything. Anywhere and everywhere they put their hands to, brings failure because God the winner man has already gone before them. It is written He is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. Also God can never be killed. Trying to cheat God can be the worst mistake anyone can think of. Even normal and namesake Christians cannot enter the kingdom of God unless we work out our own salvation. Let us not be confined Christians but learn to stretch ourselves everywhere so that anyone coming in contact with us taste the goodness of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Let us see that we are not being a stumbling block to anyone. When one is a true Christian he/she need not have trouble with anyone he/she come in contact with because the radiance of God glowing inside of him/her will automatically attract others towards them. They would rather be the persons sought after and ‘can’t live without’ kind of persons. Learning from the past mistakes and looking forward to bright future shall we learn to live in the present ? Because our life cannot be lived backward / forward nor will there be future if we ourselves perish in sin. God has meant for us to enjoy the portion He already has specified for each of us whether be it health, wealth , work load, resources , lifespan etc accordingly which is all for His good purpose and glory. Shall we run into the timetable of God and enjoy His will as His obedient children’s ? When we leave our plans and follow His plan, we can achieve even bigger and better goals than our finite minds could think of. Shall we learn to function as one body and start picking up our responsibilities which none else but you alone can do it because that very job is specifically designed and assigned for you to do it ? When we start functioning together we will soon realise that we are only helping our own selves by carrying out our duties faithfully. That’s the miraculous work of God our father whose wisdom and understanding is endless. Let us be good listeners and learners, problem solvers and not problem creators, lighten each others burden, represent and speak for weak and poor, and finally be one who hear one good and bring out something even more better than what is heard. Forgetting not “ Nothing can defeat a praying public “. Let us stand together and show Jesus Christ living through us. Lastly, let this bible verse bless us all – Now let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery. 2 Chronicles 19 : 7. God bless all !

Avika Y. Chishi
Zunheboto.

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By EMN Updated: Jul 21, 2016 12:00:33 am
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