The Kite on a String

A kite was flying high. As she soared above the treetops, she looked down on the house tops and smiled in glee. She felt the tug on her string and she thought if only she was not restrained by that string, how much higher she could fly! She felt she could even fly over the moon! What the kite did not realize was that without that string holding her, she could not be flying at all and if the string snapped at some point, then she would have crashed and come to nothing. All those who have flown kites know this to be true!

I heard this story many years ago, on our 20th wedding anniversary from (Late) Rev. Bramwell. I do not remember the text on which he preached that day but this story has stuck with me ever since.

Many times, we think we are being restraine...

The Man who built on the Rock……

Jesus gave the example of a wise man and a foolish man when He taught about who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt 7:21-27). Very commonly we hear this story being interpreted differently. The wise man is supposed to be the one who built his life on Jesus, the Rock and the foolish man was the one who did not have Jesus in his life.

If we read the above passage carefully, it very clearly says in v24,26, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice, is like a wise man who built his house on the rock……But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand”.

Both the wise man and the foolish man had ‘known’ Jesus. Both ‘listened’ to His words. Whi...

Experiencing God Today

Henry T. Blackaby in his book ‘Experiencing God’ says that during Bible times, people came to know God through specific experiences. Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah. When the ram for the sacrifice was provided providentially, he came to experience God as a “Provider”. Hagar had given up on life in the desert of Beersheba. But when God opened her eyes, she saw a well of water. Hagar called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?” Moses at the Red sea was not intimidated by the situation but experienced God as the ‘Deliverer’.

In the same way, we too experience God in many ways in our own lives.

Who am I, O Lord God?

King David was not a saint. He went through trying times following his fall. He had problems from within himself as well as from within his family. But David constantly sought the Lord and strengthened himself in the Lord. That is why God found him as the ‘man after His own heart’.

God communicated three things to David through Nathan (1 Chronicles 17:7,8). “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel. And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the earth”. God also said in v11, “I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom” and in...