Don't just sound good, Be Good!

 

Have you noticed people who only sound good but not good? We all love to be applauded, appreciated, and adored. The public arena becomes the place to display oneself. Some displays of goodness are devoid of commitment. The wisest king Solomon in one of his proverbs says, ‘Most men will proclaim his own goodness, but who can find a faithful man?’  Lies has been accommodated in this world that it is sold like a hot cake. People flaunt lies and fake commitments every day.

There is an innate desire in everyone to be recognized. All efforts are therefore made to project a pleasing image of oneself. In sounding good, people fail to be honest and truthful. We all believe that our true self is hidden in the portrayal of fake goodness. We cannot hide who we are. It is just that people have learnt to accommodate one another with their real and fake character.

Most of the time people commit and pretend to forget when they are unwilling to fulfil. Sometimes they flaunt to be good by making commitments with the underlying motive to exercise power and create dependency. Stay away from such people!

Talking about the nature of Jesus, which is as recorded in the Bible and history, The people were all speaking well of Him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth…”. It further says, “And when Jesus went out, He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick.”. All who came to Jesus with sickness - blind by birth, deaf and mute by birth, people with leprosy, were all healed. He raised people from dead too. His compassion manifested in action. He did not just sound good with a discourse on moral philosophy, He was good as a person.

Be good, be kind and be truthful. Jesus talks about the expression of a Loving God is to be demonstrated with loving people honestly. You cannot be good without encountering the Saviour. You cannot find a God in the Church, temple, mosque or in any religious places. You need to put your faith on the living Saviour and as the Bible says, “if you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord”, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”. When you encounter a true God, you become good, you don’t just sound good.

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Live your Truth -A popular philosophy!

“Live your truth” is the main reason the world is in such a mess. When every individual starts living their version of truth, there is contradiction, greed, fights, wars, and selfish ends. This is the reality today, where every individual wants others to trust them and trust their version of truth. Facts are replaced by falsehood and hypocrisy. Let me refer to an example of the Judiciary system. We all believe the court of law exists primarily to find the truth in any matter and execute justice in all the cases, though it has never been so easy and simple. When it come to the judicial system, we cannot implicate and confess that we lived our truth because we know for sure it doesn’t work that way at all. We take the liberty to adopt the ideology of “My Truth” to get our way because we are not brought before the court of law.

The matter of truth is becoming more and more debatable today. Even if there is a truth, the question, which truth and whose truth becomes the area of concern. Today, there are many motivational teachings and religious gurus emphasizing this ideology. And added to that philosophy, the icons suggest following your heart. The only challenge here is that heart is deceitful and can mislead a person either to the good or the bad based on one's state of heart. During 1150 -1000 BCE approximately; the Bible records a time period where Judges ruled the land before kings' rule. And there was a big mess in the land primarily due to one big reason, and it is recorded this way, “…every man did what was right in his own eyes.”- Book of Judges

Ideology and philosophies like these are attractive and convincing because it tries to liberate a person from the absolute truth and from being accountable to anyone. Truly our heart can understand the difference between truth and lies. And we are right. The Bible says,’ “I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God.”.  Our heart has the knowledge of good & bad and truth & lies, but it doesn’t have the capacity to follow the true direction the heart points out to. To follow the compass; the heart must identify the true living God; the moral giver who designed the moral framework.

Living our truth will bring confusion, pain, heartache, and restlessness. Jesus is the only Savior who came to the earth and claimed, “I am the way, the truth and the life”. If you make a commitment to follow Him, you are making a commitment to follow the truth which will liberate you and give you peace and Hope. He also claimed, “The Truth will set you free”. Are you disoriented, disorganized and restless? There is hope. Trust Him for help and live a life based on His moral standard. Stop living by your truth.

 

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Humans as demons!

 

India, on Wednesday, woke up to the gruesome news of cannibalism in Kerala, India. It is the case of two women who were killed in Kerala purportedly as part of a “human sacrifice for financial prosperity”. The key accused in the case is a sexual pervert and psychopath who is suspected to have eaten flesh of one of the victims. In the police report it states that the murders were human sacrifices done to appease a goddess.

It’s a spine-chilling incident which shows how degraded humans can turn out to be. In most of the crimes, if you observe, the motive for such heinous crime is invariably to please some god or goddess or in the pretext of superstition and strange religious rituals. And most of such people turn out to be psychopaths. The motives are casually tagged under superstitious belief or religious rituals and in the process, man is eventually losing the dignity of being called a human.

Bible describes man's creation as, “But I find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.”. If man is created with a balanced state of mind, then what do you think is the driving force to behave so inhumanly? The fact of the matter is that we are all created by a sovereign God, but from the moment man started to create gods and goddess of his imagination including money, wealth, prosperity, sex, they start becoming our gods. And man starts chasing it wildly and adopts any evil means to satisfy his hunger.

Stop chasing man-made religion and traditional rituals that is so much connected in the name of gods. Sadly, the stories of many such gods are filled with the incidents of polygamy, incest, capturing and making kingdoms.  These have larger impact on human behaviour. This blog is not about where the incident happened or what was the religion of the people who committed the crime, but about the perversity of human nature.

Let me quote about a person called Paul in the Bible, who after encountering Jesus got back his sanity. He says this as recorded in the Bible, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from the body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” The reason He said this is because he found humans are literally struggling to control their weird desires. He says, “but I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of the body.”. Well, do we have a solution? Yes, we do! Jesus who turned the Roman and the world history by His resurrection assures us hope in Him and through Him. He transforms our psychic mind and the state of our heart. Can we ask Him to indwell our heart. We can live in our best condition when we decide to follow His footsteps.

Reference:

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/thiruvananthapuram/human-sacrifice-accused-ate-flesh-8204280/

 

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When you want something!

 A statement and life philosophy which looks straightforward, simple and doable says, “When you want something in life, you just gotta reach and grab it!”. This life philosophy may look tempting, yet it has its own challenges for people from different walks of life. Some people can just reach out and grab what they want, whenever they want. But for some, it may not be possible at all because they may find nothing is at their disposal. Some of the factors that can impact or affect this life philosophy are the age factor, the economic factor, power factors, context and situations where one is.

We may use religious philosophies which suggest, to keep a check on our desires and wants, to avoid regrets and disappointments. Unfortunately, life isn't that easy. And that means the philosophy that suggests, to reach and grab if we want something is complex in itself. To a large extent, it cannot operate on its own but needs different components and factors to make it possible. The ‘means’ can be positive or negative. It all depends on what one wants to acquire.

The Bible says. “But a noble person plans noble things; he stands up for noble causes.”. The noble person wants are noble, his/her plans are noble, and most importantly this person ensures not to violate the right of others for what he/she wants and wishes to acquire. What you imagine to have may look so near to you. But it depends what are the means you are going to use to achieve it. Your approaches can be non-violence, genuineness, honesty, to get the things that you want. At the same time some may manipulate, be dishonest to achieve and grab things to gratify themselves.

In the phases of life, the need to complete the education, find a suitable job, have a desired successful career, own a house and a vehicle can all be a need and with dedication, sincerity and hard work, one can achieve in time. But usually the wants are unsatisfying and constantly multiply till one dies. There can be a great vacuum in all the achievements itself. The need of the soul can create a deep hunger to acquire and achieve many things that one imagines and desires, but ultimately it can be satisfied only by Christ the Savior who alters our hunger preferences. Jesus stated this powerful statement which says, “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.”. And that means one will remain in the perfect state of contentment. Without having the Savior in your heart, your life will be incomplete. A simple expression of prayer will transform your life completely.

 

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Emptiness at the top!

 

My eyes caught the statement made by this great icon Marylin Murnoe who said “I feel my whole life has been one big rejection”. Did she mean she was a big failure, bankrupt or My eyes caught the statement made by the great icon, Marylin Murnoe “I feel my whole life has been one big rejection”. Did she mean she was a big failure, bankrupt or struggled to make it to the top? Before trying to find out, let me give you the detail about who she was especially for people who are not familiar with her.

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters. She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2021) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. (Wikipedia)

´She struggled with addiction and mood disorders. Her marriages to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and to playwright Arthur Miller were highly publicized but ended in divorce. On August 4, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates (drug used to treat multiple issues) at her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a probable suicide.’ (Wikipedia)

She was already at the top of the ladder according to the world’s standards. She probably had everything at her disposal yet lived an unfulfilled and unsatisfied life. Jim Carrey the Actor once said, “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”. These are stars who made it in life and tasted the epitome of success. But it is these very icons that tell us how empty life is despite all the accomplishments, possessions, luxuries, pleasures, and experienced void in their soul. Soul in the body is not a philosophy. Soul connects with God. Our sin problem separates us from the Holy God. All our physical exercise, spiritual meditation and activities cannot comfort it. It has to have the Savior. Jesus who is the God of the universe and God of our soul once asked this poignant question, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?”. We will just be empty.  There is hope for mankind because of the sacrifice He made on the cross and His resurrection. The answer to the emptiness is when we confess our sins to Him and feel remorse for all our wrongdoings. By doing this, we experience true forgiveness from all our sins, love overflowing in our hearts and absolute peace in our soul.

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