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During one of my travels, as I was getting off the flight. I had an opportunity to see a plane take off in my sight as it was sunset time. At some take-off point, I saw how the plane flew above the sun. For a moment, my heart was captivated by that sight. I looked in awe at how man overcame nature and could supersede and take off against the earth's gravity.

I wondered how it must have been for The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright. When no one imagined flying in the sky, these brothers dared to think unconventionally. They dared to imagine something that didn’t exist in mankind. They dared to dream. Because they dared unconventionally, today, it’s the norm of conventional travel.

My thoughts went back to Bible times, people in the Bible, how when they had to follow God on an unconventional path, many were blessed. Many generations were blessed because of one man’s leap of an unconventional act.

God speaking to Abraham: Abram’s call

Genesis 12:2

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you [abundantly],
And make your name great (exalted, distinguished);
And you shall be a blessing [a source of great good to others];

God chose and blessed Abraham to be a blessing to many.

When God wanted to tangibly love people and show the heavenly father’s heart to man, he chose Mary. God chose Mary's womb when he wanted to love the world in the flesh.

Yes, Mary, the mother of Jesus, is highly favored, and God blessed her womb to bless the world.  

Every one of us has a call to answer. Jesus is calling us today to say “Yes” to him, to dream with him, to participate in His dreams for us, to rise above and reach our God-given potential, to walk in our authority with authenticity, to become all that God has called us to be, to live life to the fullest, to experience joy, peace and walk in blessings so we can be blessing to our loved ones and the world.  

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 

Let us rest in God’s love for us that God’s got us! We can lie down peacefully in God’s arms, knowing that if we say “Yes” to God and surrender to His love for us, our lives will take off just like people sitting on a flight; they will reach their destination.

I was visiting one of my sisters. After more than 24 hours of coming back home, I suddenly realize my pen drive is missing.

I searched every item, purse, and stuff that I had taken that day with me while visiting my sister. I also searched the home.

The final resort, I thought I will go back to my sister’s place and double-check for my own solace.

So, I went back to my sister’s house, not fully confident about finding it, as I didn’t remember the events surrounding my pen drive. As in, what did I do after I took the pen drive out? Where did I keep it? What happened when I took the pen drive out etc … the memory surrounding the pen drive completely was blacked out. It was as if that portion of the event was completely shut off, I had no recollection of it. I felt like a temporary loss of memory surrounding the pen drive.

Seeing my plight, my husband even offered me a new pen drive. That offer was breaking me down further at the thought of never being able to find it, so I was resorting to just buying a new one. I was breaking down with the thoughts of losing that pen drive forever and never being able to find it.

Out of broken heart, I went to my sister’s place, hoping for a miracle. My sister said, “Mahima, as soon as you told me, I searched the place. It’s not here”. I was just searching around, and after a while, my search turned into cleaning. The maid started cleaning whenever and wherever I lifted the sofas, teapoy table, etc.  

Suddenly as I was lifting one of the armchair sofas, suddenly the maid said – ‘Ma’am, it’s here”

Those words, my God, were magical, supernatural, miraculous. Words fall short of expressing my joy. I basked in glorious moments, completely lost in joy, transported to another realm. It took me some time to come back to normalcy after finding my pen drive.

What I realized after shedding a couple of joyful tears is –

It’s not the pen drive by itself that caused me so much heartbreak.

It’s what I had put inside that pen drive. My precious, priceless, eternal moments, media files, and data.

Even If I bought a new one, I would never get back the data I had put in this pen drive.

The loss of precious, priceless data was hurting me so much.   

Since I use lots of external hard drives and pen drives and if I line up all my pen drives. Each pen drive is so so so so precious because of what’s inside each pen drive.

Even if I have 10 pen drives, losing even one pen drive is so heart-wrenching at the thought of losing precious data that’s inside the pen drive.

At that moment, I had a glimpse of The Parable of The Lost Sheep, The Lost Coin, and The Lost Son from the heartbeat of Jesus.

(Bible Reference of the Parables of the lost sheep, the lost son, and the lost coin is from Luke Chapter 15)

No wonder, The shepherd left 99 behind to go in search of one lost sheep. The father, even though had 2 sons kept waiting for the prodigal son to come back to the father’s house. The woman, even though had 10 silver coins when she lost one, searched carefully and thoroughly her entire house without giving up until she found it. In all three scenarios, the parable ends with celebration when they find what was once lost.

Isaiah 53:6

We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.
    We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.

Hebrews 12:2

Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

You and I were the joy that was before Jesus that He endured the cross for us.

The creator of heaven and earth has so much invested in us that he can’t afford to see us lost forever.

Colossians 1:27

This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it’s out in the open. God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God’s glory. It’s that simple. 

Christ in you, the hope of glory!!

Happy Resurrection Day!! Happy Easter!!

May we experience the manifest hope of the glorious resurrected Jesus, our saviour, our redeemer, our rock, our refuge!!

You and I are proof of Jesus' resurrection!! 

As I was meditating on what I should reflect on my Birthday, I was led to this chapter and verse in the Bible:

Psalms 41:2
The Lord will preserve and protect them.
They’ll be honoured and esteemed.

Note: In other Bible translations of the same verse, Psalms 41:2 says -

The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the earth;

The Lord protects them
and keeps them alive.
He gives them prosperity in the land.

The Lord will protect him and keep him alive;
And he will be called blessed in the land;

Jesus says - He will preserve, protect, and keep us alive, giving us honour, esteem, and prosperity, making us blessed.

I love how these verses are written
…. He will be blessed on the earth
….. He gives them prosperity in the land
….. He will be called blessed in the land …

Jesus is very, very intentional about our life on earth. On this earth, he is going to prosper us, bless us, preserve us, honour us, and make us esteemed and blessed in the land.
 

On my Birthday, for all readers whose hearts and ears are tuned to receive from the Holy Spirit, I pray, declare, and decree that – “You will be called Blessed in the land of the living; your life will be a life reflecting God’s glory, honour and are highly esteemed as you steward your heart and Jesus’ presence.

As this year, I have been travelling a lot. I realised Ram’s car is better mileage wise for long distance out of station trip. I usually don’t touch Ram’s car as I am just used to driving my own car around.

So this one particular time as I was coming back from Kurnool. I decide I will just try driving Ram’s car. As I put my hands to the steering wheel, I realised I am able to drive and I don’t need to take special driving classes to manoeuvre this car. I drove for quite some time on the high way.

It just hit me, Ram’s car was with us from 2013 and I never even tried once to drive the car. I had this mental block that I might not be able to control the car.

All it took was one thought, desire and will to want to try out the car.

 2 Peter 1:3

Everything we could ever need for life and godliness has already been deposited in us by his divine power. For all this was lavished upon us through the rich experience of knowing him who has called us by name and invited us to come to him through a glorious manifestation of his goodness.

  Everything we could ever need for life has already been deposited in us by His divine power.

Wow!! We have so much deposited in us – gifts, talents, divine nature, and potential and much more. It would be awful to never withdraw and never live out to our fullest potential.

How often we go through life exchanging the glorious life that is possible for a cheap alternative that was never designed for us to live.

 "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter." - Francis Chan

I pray we choose every day not to compromise the glorious life that is available and get distracted for cheap futile, obsolete, meaningless, purposeless, joyless life.

"Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

Jesus is inviting us to come to Him, to experience his goodness, He calls us by name personally individually, lovingly to shower us with his goodness and to experience a glorious life that’s available and possible.  

"Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” – Corrie ten Boom

Shalom - God's Peace be upon you!!