The Essence of Life

I don't get anything what I want. I never get satisfied. My mind hurts me of an unsuccessful person in me. I feel depressed, I feel frustrated. I get angry and I use my anger to rebel against my condition. I feel anger to my family members. I myself has given me a status of a well contained individual. But I find me unfruitful. I have may be more of everything but is left unused/waste. All because I feel I am unsuccessful.

In my limitations, I try to establish myself where ever I get into. But I find it left unnoticed. I try to do many things but I get blocked everywhere. I feel everything getting blocked. I feel to me like pouring water on an inverted pot. Oh, I am staggering in my way, I feel my feet trembling and falling into iniquities. What will I do? I feel terrible. This is when tears roll down my eyes, I look up and cry to someone, whom I feel is with me when I am alone and rejected, someone who was calling me all the time when I dint remember Him, yes the one who is with us always but we never try to know. OUR FATHER.. I start hearing a voice from Him. “My child you are sad because all these time you were living for you, you were taking care to become glorified as you., to establish the 'I'. YOUR PRIDE IS BLOCKING YOU OF EVERYTHING”

Isn't this FATHER marvellous? We feel Him when we are alone, when everyone leaves us or when we are completely shattered of this world. But the reality is that He is and was and will be with us all the time. We realise Him and His love only when we find ourselves helpless, it is at that time we feel that we are nothing, all that we have are mere mirage. If the essence in us is not there, all our gains and the thing that we feel we have attained and conquered are meaningless. This essence, I wish to proclaim as THE FATHER-SON-HOLY SPIRIT.

In our emptiness we discover and realize this Trinitarian Love, or in beautiful words it is only a humble heart that find this wonderful love.

“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”-1 Peter 5:5

We always think we are someone important and we feel a need to get noticed and recognised everywhere. But we never think or realize that, the actual reason we are being recognised is because of the Gods mercy that is upon us and He is within us. In this stage, let us think about the donkey who carried Jesus in the streets of Jerusalem. All those who gathered were praising and singing spreading fresh leaves and flowers through out the way it passed. Is this donkey so important or famous that it was praised a lot? No, the praises and welcome that it got was because of the Jesus whom he carried on his shoulder

By bowing humbly for the master and carrying Him on the back, the Donkey walked in the streets of Jerusalem. An envelop of praises, showers of leaves and flowers that carpeted the street- this was what the donkey was guided into. It walked all the way that its master asked to walk carrying on the back. But the donkey did this with submission, silence and satisfaction, succeeding in the wonderful mission assigned to it by the Lord Almighty. This should our mentality while living this life on earth.

It is God who is assigning us the plan/duty of life. He selects us for a mission. While progressing in this, we should be like the Donkey. We must be always aware that the World see Jesus while looking us, the world hear Jesus while we speak, the world feel Jesus in us while we help them. We must reflect Jesus while we walk through our life. The goodness, praises, comforts life the carpeted street of Jerusalem that we experience is only because Jesus is living in us. We must recognise it and walk humbly with perfect submission, carrying Lord in our heart to successfully complete Gods plan for us and working for Him untiringly with silence.

“You did not choose me. I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and produce fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name. -John 15:16

Hence let us realize this and humble ourselves before the Almighty without whom we are nothing. Let us always remember in everything we do that it is God who build us everyday and everytime,He is our Father who loves us and cares us every second of our life.

Prayer

Lord thank you for helping us realize our value because of You in us. Help us to humble ourselves before everything and everyone so that we remain as Yours forever. Amen

Reading

John 15:1-17