AS THE YEAR FADES BY….

The Holy Bible says, “When anyone is joined to Christ, he is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

At the onset of every New Year, it has been a very familiar and easy task to promise God, ourselves and our dear ones that we would be a better person in the coming year. Spiritual progress in every effort, expectations of richness, promotions, appreciations, sound health of mind and body are some of the desires that make up almost everyone’s wish list.

With great enthusiasm, determination and a handful of promises we gladly mark our entry in the young New Year, but as months pass by our eagerness and fortitude begin to fade; turning us into victims of failure and melancholy.

The Holy Bible says, “Don’t deliberately torture yourself by giving into depression…..don’t worry all the time. Worry never did anybody good and it has destroyed many people. It will make you old before your time.” (Sirach 30:21-24)

When His anger was about to destroy the sinful Sodom, God remembered Abraham’s nephew Lot and send His messengers to save him. When hesitant to obey the messengers, Lot and his family were carried by them out of the city.

Then one of the angels said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won’t be killed.”

Yes ,dear faithful readers of Living Word, for the past seven months you were led by the message  of the Word Incarnate by me. Am sure that these words  have truly, strongly inspired and influenced your mind and heart; creating assurance and great hope for a simple yet holy way to create a new joyful life and atmosphere.

Through this everyday interaction I could make you realize your miseries and awareness for the cause of it. Due to certain carelessness, derailment from your responsibilities, be it owing to unfavored circumstances, consciously or unconsciously the significance of being a truthful individual to God and self was diminished.

Let your heart not be troubled!

In the present day , you have been united with Jesus Christ, your Savior and Master, who skilled you to live in love with a mind leaning to charity.

Whoever joins to Christ faithfully with an earnest heart is a new person.

You may ask how?

I tell you, for the reason that those who decide to work with Lord Jesus, the light, who is capable to illuminate your darkened area with His brightening Light; by forgiving your errors. For those who thirst for His way His power comforts and consoles.

For His merit, God the Father of mercy, pardons your past trespass events; once again accepting you as  His child. We are made worthy to turn to our Sovereign Lord, who through the passion of Christ not only changed us from enemies into His friends but also handed us the task of making others His friends.

Christ Jesus, without any stain or sin, came down to this earth as per the Will of God, to share the burden of our sins and sicknesses, setting us free. Today, He stands as a mediator between us and God to speak about our good deeds and allow us to merit and share in God’s righteousness.

Let us pronounce His mighty name and glorious deeds.

Just as the angel warned Lot and his family, our guardian angel too constantly advices us when we fall into the bad mood of regurgitating the past sorrowful events.

Don’t look back and stop! Get up! Go forward like a cheerful person with a pleasing attitude that will bless you with a long and worthy life.

I take great pleasure to honor and appreciate St.Paul for his zealous heart filled with Evangelic Spirit  and true conversion from his precedent  malicious past. He, who was a persecutor of the Church himself says—such person can only be righteous and profited in the sight of the world by obeying the commandments of the Law. The very hour he understood the knowledge of Christ is much more valuable than his past life, St. Paul reckoned everything as a complete loss and threw it all away in order to gain Christ and to be absolutely united in Him.

He says boldly, “I have no longer a righteousness of my own; but the righteousness that comes from God is based on faith.”

What matters is your faith which can lead you to hope and generosity; generating the energy to run towards  your goal. He strived hard to win the prize that had already been won for him by Jesus Christ.

Salvation of our soul is the occupation given by God our Father. Let us also run towards the goal to save our soul. A constant spiritual labor is very essential for the success of this run especially when we come across various trials, hardships, failures, rejections etc.. and to overcome the evil which arises from flesh, actions of the devil that surround us.

Like a good soldier, we need to fight against the temptations of sin and overcome the evil one. For this very reason, we ought to focus our direction to God by knowing Him and ceaselessly continue doing good to burn your lamp of faith.

Today being the last day of the year, let us take a look at ourselves and check on our actions and self examine how well we scored in our race this year,  that is passing from us now. It is the right occasion to invite forgiveness for all those duties we failed to do. It is also the best time to scrutinize our errors and selfishness; to check our conscience and our reactions at the time of crises etc..

Meanwhile let us not forget that it is also the right moment to thank God for His abundance mercy, protection. For granting us each day each of the year- irrespective of whether we thanked Him or not.  His caressing comfort we often fail to acknowledge and His leniency to us – His children.

As a resolution, if possible make a promise to God that you will own a personal Bible and take some time out to read a passage daily. During those days when tough and fatigue takes over your routine, do promise that you will not sleep unless you take the Holy Bible to flip the pages and hold it tightly across your heart.

May the Lord bless you and take care of you. May He be kind and gracious to you. May the Lord look on you with favor and give you peace.

With love filled blessings,

Your Sister in Christ