This Week With Jesus

Ephesians 5 15- 17 -  So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times! Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants. (5:15–17 MSG) Watch your step! This statement is so familiar isn't it? . Parents say that to children, people use that as a warning to others and so on. This is a life warning. But read further, it is also guideline for every Christian. As we travel a path carefully chosen according to His will, word and purpose, God presents us with so many opportunities. Opportunities to flourish and prosper, and also opportunities to say NO . Opportunities to lead an exemplary life. Opportunities to use our gifts for others. We cannot pass our time mindlessly, but realize every second we live is an investment we make into life, a life after our physical death.   Just to be clear, our first death, or our physical death, is the separation of  our body from our spirit. The second death, is

If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. — Exodus 20:25 (Note : Todays reflection is adapted from the KJV Devotional, with some thoughts of our own).  In an earlier  post, we had talked about "helping God" . In our reflection today, we see how much a serious offence it can be ! Consider the quoted verse. Short. But with so much meaning and learning.  God’s altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labor  might be seen upon it. What that tells us is this: Let not man add to God's Glory with his/her own understanding (tools) and human interpretation (wisdom).  Our KJV study says - "  Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all"  Essentially what it means is that we bend th

Since Biblical times, there has been discussion and great interest by scholars on the question : What is the greatest commandment. Pastor Rajiv's talks about this in his message today.