My Dear Friends,
This letter is meant to broadcast the good news that
you cannot receive from news papers. It’s about water that quenches your thirst
in such a way that you don’t get thirsty again! Surprising, isn’t it? But it is
true. And this water you don’t get from anywhere else, you have it straight
from Jesus.
Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they will be filled.” In other words, Jesus means to say
that only our spiritual desires are capable of fulfillment. Our physical
desires cannot be fulfilled.
No matter how much we eat and drink, no matter how nice
we eat and drink, our body is bound to get hungry and thirsty again. All our
physical needs and their fulfillment are temporary; because our body is
temporary. One day our body, with all its desires and fulfillment, will die and
disintegrate into the elements from which it is formed.
This was surely not the purpose for which God had
designed our body. He had designed our body as an instrument to be used by our
spirit in order to fulfill its (spirit’s) desires. Our spirit is immortal and
therefore it requires things which are eternal.
Bible lists the desires of our spirit. These are love,
joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and
self-control. All these moral virtues are summed up in one word, that is,
RIGHTEOUSNESS. It is this righteousness that makes spirit’s immortality
desirable. This needs to be understood properly.
As we know, almost all religious traditions talk about
immortality of human spirit. It is the Bible that provides really useful
information about this immortality of the spirit. According to Bible, spirit is
destined to spend eternity either in Heaven or Hell. Heaven is the place where
God lives. It is the place of eternal peace and joy and rest. Hell, on the
other hand, is the place where Satan lives. It is the place of endless sorrows
and sufferings.
So, if our spirit has to spend eternity in Hell in
eternal suffering, our immortality is rather a curse than a blessing. The
immortality of our spirit should make us happy only if our spirit is to spend
eternity in Heaven in eternal joy. The only way we can ensure eternal joy in
Heaven for our spirit is by living a righteous
life in this very life – the life that we live in our body and through our body.
In other words, our body has a purpose far greater than
just feeding it with choice food, dressing it in nice clothes, and sheltering
it in a big mansion. Bible describes our body as the temple of God. Temple is
the place of worship – worship offered unto God. In other words, the life we
live in our body is supposed to be a worship; and because it is meant for
worshiping God, for that purpose we should preserve and look after our body and
what it requires.
Body as a temple of God requires us to live a holy life
on moral and spiritual plane. This kind of life not only helps our body but
also our spirit and ensures that our spirit spends ‘happy’ eternity with God in
Heaven. This is what our spirit
profoundly craves for.
But the craving of our spirit is not satisfied if we do
not put our body in the service of our spirit. So, we may eat the best foods,
wear the best clothes, live in the best building, gather enormous wealth, and
yet we continuously yearn for more. We are never satisfied with what we have. We
do not understand why we remain dissatisfied with life. Because we do not know
that all the time that we are occupied with fulfilling the requirements of our
body, our spirit continuously starves. It
is the dissatisfaction of our spirit that makes us dissatisfied in our life.
Therefore, Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread
alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Bread is meant for
our body and the word that comes from the mouth of God is meant for our spirit.
Until and unless we satisfy both our
body and spirit, we do not get satisfaction in life. Unfortunately, we
always manage to get our daily bread by all means; what we do not always try to
get is the word of God for our spirit.
Friends, it is not difficult to get the word of God. It
is contained in the message that Jesus preached when He was in this world. His
message is as relevant for us now and in the time to come as it was 2000 years
back. Jesus said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever
believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from
within them.”
All you have to do to fulfill the hunger and the thirst
of our spirit is to hear the message of Jesus, and believe in it. If we believe
in Jesus, we will believe in His message. If we believe in Jesus, God will send
us His Holy Spirit to dwell in us. The rivers of living water that Jesus talked
about in His statement quoted above is this Holy Spirit.
This is extremely important because the Holy Spirit
will not only help us live a righteous life, He will also make us the source of
‘living water’ for the spirit of other people. This Holy Spirit also guarantees
salvation (Moksha) for our spirit. Moksha
or salvation of our spirit paves the way for the salvation of our body as well.
God
wants that all the three aspects of our being are covered by the salvation
(Moksha) that He has prepared through Jesus.
By the way, the
three aspects of our being include mind, body and spirit. You are given
this information about the three aspects of our ‘Self’ or existence in order to
explode the myth that only spirit is immortal, the body perishes and
disintegrates into the elements from which it is formed.
God has a plan for all the three aspects of our being
and is aimed at preserving our wholeness of being. However, this is another
subject for which this little piece of writing does not afford any scope. All that is
important for you to know is the necessity of believing in Jesus - believing in
what Jesus has to say to them.
Jesus loves you, and He wants to help you and fulfill
all your needs no matter how great they are. He fulfills both your physical and
spiritual needs in such a way that you no longer have to worry about them.
To be more specific, in following respects Jesus can
help you…
1. Jesus
forgives your sins and makes you righteous
2. Jesus
takes away the curse that you and your family have been living under
3. Jesus
takes away your sickness
4. Jesus
frees you from the bondage of evil spirits
5. Jesus
frees you from death and leads you to eternal life
6. Jesus
gives you all that is necessary for your body
7. Jesus
takes away your sorrows and gives you real peace and joy
8. Jesus
removes poverty and a life of dearth
9. Jesus
gives you success
10.
Jesus frees you from different kinds
of addiction
11.
Jesus saves people from committing
suicide
Having
known in what ways Jesus can help you, we shall turn to briefly find out how
Jesus can help you in matters listed above in the posts which I am going to publish next.
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