18. March 20, 2014 -18th Day of Lent

Be Stable With God

Are we stable in our Lord? When we reflect the days of our life, some days we find ourselves so strong in God, with full belief and enthusiasm to pray, peace at mind and generous to do good deeds. Different from these days, some times we find ourselves barren, we never feel to pray, never can we think peacefully, confusions, anger, depressions, dissatisfaction, selfishness, incompleteness and lot more will envelope our minds creating a miserable fog that cuts off this divine light from us.

Why this happen? Why are we unstable in God?

This instability accounts for the depth in our belief to our Lord. We are not able to humble ourselves in front of Him, we are not able to submit ourselves to Him perfectly, we never believe in Him sincerely. Whenever we do something, our mentality is to brand it in our name and get the credit. Among our friends we try to establish our mark at some point. In our work places, we wish to get the honour for the best performance never thinking about our fellows feelings. Everywhere in the field of life, we wish our name to be honoured. This is the selfish man.

Hence if the situations turn negative, we can never afford it, we blame our condition, we may blame the process, or curse the authorities or our state of living and sometimes even our loving God. We do this to justify ourselves, to prove ourselves that we are clean and it is not our fault. We never want to break OUR IMAGE. This is the reason that we are unstable in our Lord. We always want OUR IMAGE to shine and not His.

But think of 'Jesus' the son of God who came down to Earth for saving us sinners, how did he live? We know the whole story. Yet we are ignorant. Jesus did everything in the name of the Father Almighty. In the garden of Gethsemane, when He was breaking in tears with the pain in soul..Jesus prayed to Father '“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” Even in pain, Jesus wanted His Fathers wish to be done. Jesus spoke in Fathers words, accomplished the Father’s work, and did everything in oneness with the Father.

In John 5:43 Jesus says that “I have come from my Father and speak for him, but you don’t accept me. But when other people come speaking only for themselves, you accept them.”

Jesus is the perfect model that we should reflect.

Jesus said, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do. My food is to finish the work that he gave me to do. - John 4:34

In this Lenten days let us learn to be stable in God. Whenever we are in something, let us first deny ourselves and our humanly thoughts. Let us not try to do something for our own purpose. Let us not be selfish and never try to honour our name. But the name of Lord who is working us to make us perfect and pure like Him. Remember “GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS IMAGE AND BLEW HIS BREATH IN US” so not only in image but in spirit we should be living with God giving thanks to Him in each breath.

When ever we find ourselves unstable and barren, try to reflect on our activities, we will be able to figure out something that we have done for our selfishness. Submit it to Lord, and pray to Him to fill it with His glory. As Christ lived as one with Father Almighty, We must be one in the Trinity.

“Accept my teaching. Learn from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And you will be able to get some rest.” - Mathew 11:29

Let us also be gentle and humble in spirit and accept our Lords voice everytime, so that the selfish human is always at rest in us.

Lord our dear Father help us to be complete in You and not in us. Teach us to reject the selfish human in us and to do things for Your glory. So that we can be moulded into perfection as You wish and are never unstable in You. Amen.

Reading

John 17

Psalms 51