Clothe yourself with Love Col. 3:14

Jesus asked questions that I think should be at the center of our study. How we respond shows our position in relation to the Kingdom of Heaven. Twice Jesus asked: What do you want me to do for you ? Initially, this question made me think about my own struggles and my most pressing need to be sorted out. What is it that you want God to do for you? Will your choice address your physical needs or your spiritual needs? God cares for both. How hard is it for us to recognize our need to amend our whole way of life to conform to the Bible's New Testament life? Is this the bottom line we are afraid of? That we won't be able to follow Jesus fully? Often our wants and desires show how less concerned we are with our souls’ welfare. Jesus cares about our total healing; a life full of joy and peace. To be perfectly honest, nowadays joy and peace are the most missing or rare ingredients in our lives, why? Because it’s easy to approach life the wrong way: We all have ideas of what will mak...

Why is it important for all Christian believers to study the profile of the rich young ruler? What was he like? What does his life and attitude teach us about our own lives? He is described as a wealthy, good-quality kind of person. Folks, he is us! A person with influence, who has made it in life by his achievements, and we can see it with the kind of respect he gets in the world. He has the right perspective too! He recognizes something valuable in Jesus the Son of God. He worshiped Jesus and asked him a significant question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” Those of you who are checklist people, you would love the rich young ruler. By the way, this is how I imagined him to be: He had cross-checked everything in his life! He had succeeded in many things, but this question of everlasting life was still daunting to him. Jesus was his perfect link to it! Of course, he had done well his religion homework ever since he was young! He had obeyed God’s commandments! That's e...

We are unfished products until we meet Christ. What I mean is, we are untransformed until we meet Jesus and become transformed into His likeness. That’s why we often see ourselves in the story of the children of Israel. The Bible describes the rabble among them at the time when they had just been divinely rescued from their Egyptian slavery. We would think they would be grateful to God but Moses was faced with an angry mob. Israelites were craving for Egyptian food. They alarmingly forgot their own character as God’s people and threw a fit: Very disgraceful and ungrateful! They couldn’t wait to be in the promised land and expected a champagne lifestyle all the way. No, there is a bit of suffering on the way to where God is taking you. God is definitely willing to lead us. The trouble is: we act strangely like Israel when we face suffering. We grumble and forget the mountains that the Lord removed for us to be where we are now. Moses couldn’t deal with it. The letter of James attempts ...