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When I am came work this morning before starting I read news that Washington Mutual bank failed like many other banks in USA. I have my account in WaMu. I think my monies are safe but those who had more than $100,000 their money in that bank might have lost significant part of it. This was the first time in this economy crisis I and my family were touched directly. But apart from this I’ve know many who were severely affected by other economy crisis around the world.
First time when I went to South Korea in June 1996 the Korean won was very strong compare to dollar, 700 Won (Equal to 70 Cents) was 1$. When I went back in 1998, just prior to my going back there was such a huge drop of market and economy, which affected many Asians countries, but Korea was in the center of it. So just in few month when I went back now $1 was equal to 1400 Won, and in years to come it settled around 1100 Won. I know a guy from church Mr. Park (Most of the people are Park, Lee and Kim in Korea) very helpful to International students like me. He gave me place to stay in his office in downtown Seoul. Me and other friends have seen him working very joyfully during night selling organic juice making good money that he even helped so many other international students. After these crises he lost his place in the night market. There was no more business and the last time I saw him, because he needed money and I was the one who helped him little bit.
Few years ago India Today magazine ran an article around the palaces in India. It was mostly about what happened to some of the kings who used to be King and used to own their Kingdom in new India only few kings could survive. There was a picture of an old man, looking very poor and had no possession sleeping right in front of the old totally neglected palaces and the caption read…. King of the castle. He used to be the king once upon but now he just a door kipper.
So the question one must ask as individual, family, nation and world. Who holds our future? Is it some economy? Some status? Health? These all will come and go. Yesterday’s king is today’s gatekeeper. Yesterday’s dalit (outcast in India) is today’s minister! In this changing times who holds your future? Can you cling on to someone or something when all hell seems to break right upon our head?
Rajiv Pathik (http://ccm-int.com)
Monday, September 29, 2008
Why does Time Divide at Christmas?
I was just on the threshold of my twenties while the whole world was going crazy behind millennium magic. My questioning and ever curious mind was searching clues in that number 2000! It was the end of another thousand years for human-beings. I traced back for one more thousand years and stopped at the event where whole history collapsed and time had new beginning all together. At that point bookish knowledge of B.C. (i.e. Before Christ) and A.D.(anno Domini-in the year of our Lord) made all the senses to me. I was always fascinated for two things – Time and Space! The very fundamental elements for anybody/anything’s life! No one can get out of the realm of them and still the very little we know about them. Well accepted Oxford dictionary falls short to define Time – http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/time?view=uk
One could easily figure out – how tiny we are to comprehend the brilliance and beauty of Time!
This “Time” – breaks into two with the birth of Jesus!!!!! Why? Why does whole human history cling between the hooks of “Before Christ” and “anno Domini”?
Irrespective of any religions if one can think of ‘The God’, in His identical nature, must be “Timeless”. The reason behind is that if someone is in the clutches of time, he or she must be having some beginning and end too! God can not have the beginning or the end, if ever He claims to be God!
Now with this little and yet very essential background, I want you to have a look around the world and if one can be honest with oneself, look into own heart. At macro and micro level you will find that we are living in a very perverted world. Despite of having spared food for dogs, millions of people die because of starvation everyday. Such an imbalanced world we are living in! We know how wicked thoughts we carry into our minds. Everyday newspapers just display the despair of our state of mind and not a single man has ever escaped from it.
This certainly was not the intention of the Creator of this world. Being the Just God, he knew that there is no one in the human race to take the guilt of each individual and to pay the penalty of the sin. Bible says, "Every man is sinner and falls short to the glory of the Lord". So God himself laid a rescue plan for everyone of us. He decided to come on to this earth in the flesh of human and to pay the penalty of the sin on the cross by sheddding His holy blood. Yes, Jesus is that very God who came into this world. The Bible clearly points it out that "God is Love", and in Jesus it is actualized.
Now, going back in "Time" or for this matter on "Time", What could happen if Creator himself allows his-self to the rules of His creation? To illustrate it, imagine A painter who himself becomes painting and limits his-self to the canvas! Here lies the answer of breaking of the Time into two pieces. Time which is continuous in nature as they call it (refer again Oxford or Wikipedia), pauses on the day of Christmas, because its own creator was submitting Himself to it. Many thinkers have tried to comprehend this brilliance and love of God, out of them all I believe Augustus (one time atheist and then came to Christ!) is very proximate in his expression. He says, "In Christ I see, water becomes thirst, food becomes hunger!" The Bible clearly depicts that we can not guage His love!
So Christmas is about God's love personified in Jesus Christ and two pieces of Time are the strongest witnesses. It also says that His life is verifiable and true, whatever He claimed, He proved. Just explaining one of them, He says "I am the Life and the giver of eternal life." He died on the cross for our sins, what if that was the end of the story?....His claim was wrong then, and his disciples would have slipped away instead of spreading gospel and would have died for their faith.....But that was not end, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day and proved that neither time nor death can bind Him and He rules them. He is Timeless and He is God.
Our mental faculties can justify this truth, and still it is very possible to have stubborn heart to follow Christ. He is ever-ready to accept each one with open-stretched arms. He says, "I knock on the door and whoever opens I'll come in and have ever-lasting fellowship with him/her." I knew being a hard-nosed atheist then, I could have escaped from all the rallies of reasons, but how could I've hidden from His love. And that took me to accept Jesus as my personal God and saviour, and I thank God for His love and mercy upon me. I welcome your queries/comments on havejeet@gmail.com Thanks for spending one time-slice of eternity with me!
One could easily figure out – how tiny we are to comprehend the brilliance and beauty of Time!
This “Time” – breaks into two with the birth of Jesus!!!!! Why? Why does whole human history cling between the hooks of “Before Christ” and “anno Domini”?
Irrespective of any religions if one can think of ‘The God’, in His identical nature, must be “Timeless”. The reason behind is that if someone is in the clutches of time, he or she must be having some beginning and end too! God can not have the beginning or the end, if ever He claims to be God!
Now with this little and yet very essential background, I want you to have a look around the world and if one can be honest with oneself, look into own heart. At macro and micro level you will find that we are living in a very perverted world. Despite of having spared food for dogs, millions of people die because of starvation everyday. Such an imbalanced world we are living in! We know how wicked thoughts we carry into our minds. Everyday newspapers just display the despair of our state of mind and not a single man has ever escaped from it.
This certainly was not the intention of the Creator of this world. Being the Just God, he knew that there is no one in the human race to take the guilt of each individual and to pay the penalty of the sin. Bible says, "Every man is sinner and falls short to the glory of the Lord". So God himself laid a rescue plan for everyone of us. He decided to come on to this earth in the flesh of human and to pay the penalty of the sin on the cross by sheddding His holy blood. Yes, Jesus is that very God who came into this world. The Bible clearly points it out that "God is Love", and in Jesus it is actualized.
Now, going back in "Time" or for this matter on "Time", What could happen if Creator himself allows his-self to the rules of His creation? To illustrate it, imagine A painter who himself becomes painting and limits his-self to the canvas! Here lies the answer of breaking of the Time into two pieces. Time which is continuous in nature as they call it (refer again Oxford or Wikipedia), pauses on the day of Christmas, because its own creator was submitting Himself to it. Many thinkers have tried to comprehend this brilliance and love of God, out of them all I believe Augustus (one time atheist and then came to Christ!) is very proximate in his expression. He says, "In Christ I see, water becomes thirst, food becomes hunger!" The Bible clearly depicts that we can not guage His love!
So Christmas is about God's love personified in Jesus Christ and two pieces of Time are the strongest witnesses. It also says that His life is verifiable and true, whatever He claimed, He proved. Just explaining one of them, He says "I am the Life and the giver of eternal life." He died on the cross for our sins, what if that was the end of the story?....His claim was wrong then, and his disciples would have slipped away instead of spreading gospel and would have died for their faith.....But that was not end, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day and proved that neither time nor death can bind Him and He rules them. He is Timeless and He is God.
Our mental faculties can justify this truth, and still it is very possible to have stubborn heart to follow Christ. He is ever-ready to accept each one with open-stretched arms. He says, "I knock on the door and whoever opens I'll come in and have ever-lasting fellowship with him/her." I knew being a hard-nosed atheist then, I could have escaped from all the rallies of reasons, but how could I've hidden from His love. And that took me to accept Jesus as my personal God and saviour, and I thank God for His love and mercy upon me. I welcome your queries/comments on havejeet@gmail.com Thanks for spending one time-slice of eternity with me!
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