A good prayer!

Unmask to me sin's deformity, that I may hate it, abhor it, flee from it... Let me never forget that heinousness of sin lies not so much in the nature of the sin committed, as in the greatness of the person sinned against.

A good prayer by the puritans which clearly brings out the seriousness of sin and how much it offends our Holy God! It torments me to think how lightly I view sin. It is my sin that put Christ on the cross. A violent bloody death.

Help me dear God to have your perspective on sin and abhor it greatly!

Grant me never to lose sight of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the exceeding righteousness of salvation, the exceeding glory of Christ, the exceeding beauty of holiness, the exceeding wonder of grace.

Weary soldier??

As soldiers of Christ, we must constantly remember, we are up against a lot of things. We are waging a war against the assaults of the flesh on our souls. "Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh which wage war against your soul." 1 Peter 2:11

Then, there are the onslaughts of the Enemy, the temptations, the various trials. As pilgrims, we get weary and tired. At times, discouraged! We need to remember that this is a good fight. The good fight of faith!

Jesus is the Captain of our salvation(Heb.2:10b) and the founder and perfecter of our faith (Heb.12:2a). We must look to JESUS, who for the joy set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame. We must run the race that is set before us with endurance. We must lay ASIDE every WEIGHT and the SIN which clings so CLOSELY. (Heb.12:1-2)

Let us with the apostle together say, "But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13b-14

New Job...New trials...Renewed Hope

Its been almost 3 weeks at my new job. I don't even know how the weeks have flown by. It was like just yesterday that i said good bye to my friends at MIT Design and here i am today in the IT industry. If you would ask me how the journey has been since then; I really don't know what to say.I have had mixed emotions. Times of joy and times of sorrow. I know that its the initial time and it will pass soon. But the journey seems so long.

The only thing that keeps me going is that my God is in complete control of every situation. He knows why He has placed me here. Sometimes everything seems so overwhelming that you you just want to run away. But to know that in any trial we are not alone,He is always with me and He never leaves me. At this new job I feel really lonely as its taking me a while to make friends and people here are more into their work. But at these times I have realized that its only my Lord Jesus who will be my faithful friend. I have sung the song “What a friend we have in Jesus” many a times. But the last few days the truths in those verses have been more dear to me.

I praise God for saving me and giving me a new life. To know that I have hope and as it says in 2 Peter 1:3-4 that He has given me all things pertaining to life godliness. All i need to do is completely depend on Him.

This new place, new people and new trials are gonna reveal more of my weak areas which will show me every single day as to how helpless I am on my own and thus will make me go to the cross every day.

Thank you Jesus for a being a compassionate friend, patient, loving and always faithful. Thank you for your perfect sacrifice and that in you I have eternal life.

Waiting for Christ's return

“The true Scriptural source of consolation, in the face of all that troubles us, is to keep steadily before our eyes the second coming of Christ.

We must grasp and realize the blessed fact that the rightful King of the world is returning soon, and shall have His own again; that He shall put down that old usurper, the devil, and take away the curse from off the earth.

Let us cultivate the habit of daily looking forward to the resurrection of the dead, the gathering together of the saints, the restitution of all things, the banishment of sorrow and sin, and the re-establishment of a new kingdom, of which the rule shall be righteousness.”

J.C.Ryle-"Looking Unto Jesus"

Mighty possession!

In my morning devotions, while reading through the prayer of Hannah, some verses were directly pointing to God's character. (1 Samuel 2: 1-10)
v2 There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides You; there is no rock like our God.

Think about it, our God ALONE is holy and there is no one in this universe or the entire galaxy who is like our God! And He is our God through Jesus Christ! What a great possession we have.

As His children, we are ..."heirs of God and fellow heirs, with Christ" Romans 8:17a. Hence, we can cry out with the prophet, "The LORD is my portion," says my soul "therefore I will hope in him." Lam.3:24