Letters

My First letter to you, O, New Believer!

MAY GOD BLESS you, my only prayer!!

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April 2006

“They are constantly in my thoughts. I cannot stop thinking about them.”

Psalm 77:12 (Bible, O.T)

I, salil, a bond slave of God, greets you with life, my prayers and blessings in the name of Christ, Lord Jesus. Amen.

Dear Brothers and sisters, first of all I would like to tell you; why a personal letter? I, a bond slave of Christ am writing to you as a person (believer) here and not just as a gospel preacher. Here in this letter I am salil (in Christ) and Christ (life in salil). I am here not representing any creed, influence, persuasion or even conversation but rather I am focusing on FAITH, eternal LIFE and on true REALITY. Since I am your friend and you know me personally so I am writing my first epistle in person. May our LIVING GOD, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER bless us both to understand and to write it. May the LIFE flow (as the expression of God). Amen.

“The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus Christ gave me.”

Acts 20:24 (Bible, N.T)

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.”

Proverbs 11:30 (Bible, O.T)

What the Christian (Christian: Christ living in us) Faith (FAITH in true, real, living, One GOD) is all about?

Christ: God becoming Man in a mysterious, divine way under His infinite wisdom and according to His eternal plan (His Economy) to save perishing souls (from death) and to impart everlasting, eternal, divine life. LIFE is ‘GOD Himself’.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone who believes into Him would not perish, but would have eternal life.”

John 3:16 (Bible, N.T)

Christians are the many sons and daughters of One Almighty Living God. Christian Faith is nothing but to live and enjoy God and to listen God through Christ Jesus (the first born among many), by the Spirit- and that is:

“God is the creator of ‘ALL’ and we are created in ‘His’ image. Through Adam, ‘Sin’ came into mankind’s blood. We all died that day only with Sin being in us. In Spirit we died and are dead!! God is so holy, so pure, and so righteous that no impurity (Sin/sins) can stand before ‘Him’. We are fallen from birth and hence are short of God’s glory.”

Christ Jesus died for our sins on the cross (since no one else died for our sins) and also proclaimed in truth and reality of the things which ‘He’ did to bear testimony to ‘His’ Father God. He was resurrected on third day and in resurrection He became a life giving Spirit dispensing the processed Triune God into Man. Hence God can fulfill the eternal purpose of making man to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.” Finally man can express God throughout eternity.

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 (Bible, N.T)

“Even as it is written, “there is none righteous, not even one;”’

- Romans 3:10 (Bible, N.T)

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” - Romans 3:23 (Bible, N.T)

And that’s why Jesus’ death on cross as a normal human being (sin free) is important. Jesus said: “I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”

John 14:6 (Bible, N.T)

If we come before Christ as a sinner and Jesus as our only savior, He is willing to forgive us from all sins. All thing of the old creation (with our forgiveness in Christ) will change and a new life (God Himself) with a new creation will come in the reality of Christ.

“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;” - Romans 3:24 (Bible, N.T)

“Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,”

Psalms 103:3, 4 (Bible, O.T)

Now ALL the powers are yours for God is in you. The Lord has paid for our sins and that we are now free, out of all of bondages. Welcome into the Kingdom of GOD. You only need to ask forgiveness for your sins and you will repent before God. What an amazing Grace!! We will be sorry for what we are in Sin. The Almighty, our living heavenly Father from now is our food, cloths, drink, and our life supply.

“But God commends His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”

Romans 5:8 (Bible, N.T)

To believe that Christ died for your sins, with thanksgiving in our heart, is to enjoy the assurance of God’s forgiveness and saving love.

“O, the love that drew salvation’s plan,

O, the grace that brought it down to man,

O, the mighty gulf that God did span

At Calvary

Mercy there was great, and grace was free,

Pardon there was multiplied to me,

There my burdened soul found liberty:

At Calvary”

Jesus said:

I am your friend and I came here to bear testimony to My Father. So do you… for what I have done for you. (Of course He was talking about the redemption and the forgiveness of sins. And the freedom experienced and Joy outflowing afterwards.)

The reality and awareness of the seriousness of Sin/sins is one of the bases of Christian faith; for no where we have awareness of sins as ‘Sin’. We know many things about sins but they are religious and doctrinal knowledge having no life sense in reality before God. So nor do we feel it in our spirit neither we have any knowledge of life. We are also vague of what sin is and what not?

“Anything which is not of God or not God alone is Sin. God is Divine, Divine is Life, and Life is Eternal, and anything lesser than Eternal Life is shaking hands with Satan and Death.”

The eternal life is ours; it is for all believers who believe in the Resurrection of Christ. The Resurrection of Christ is the only recorded act of such a powerful, wonderful work of God in the whole HISTORY; beginning from the creation until today!!

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not merely a fact or a crucial truth but the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important thing in the whole universe till Creation. The resurrection is even more important and valuable than the Old Creation itself. Resurrection is UNIQUE, GOD HIMSELF ACTING AND WORKING ON, and is LIFE. As a whole Resurrection is the very action of the Jesus’ testimony that the eternal life, GOD, our forgiveness (REDEMPTION) from sins, God’s love for the humanity and finally the eternal Life is all TRUE and are from GOD alone, and is only through and in ‘Him’.

Now the resurrection is unique, important and mysterious. It is amazing yet divine for the fact that ‘death’ and ‘destruction’ is the ultimate result of ALL except one almighty God. God is life and ‘He’ proved this very fact in the resurrection of Christ. Christ death was for our sins and ‘His’ resurrection was the proof of divine promise which Jesus gives us that after forgiveness from sins and once the barrier of our own existence and our sins removes, God is fully ours and hence the life of God is ours.

Did you know that all the Bible,

Is a will, a testament?

Everything that Christ accomplished

Is for all God’s children meant

As His child you are included,

For His word stands fast and true;

So by faith you now inherit

All that He has done for you!!

So, from the resurrection we have faith of not only eternal life with God but also of victory over death and Satan in this human life only. The path to this is not any religion, nor any theory or human concept, neither any method, principles, techniques or our own self beliefs and philosophy.

The path to salvation is a living person, name Jesus. He loved us that He died stretching His hands and saying ‘this much I love you’… He still loves us in the same way, He is eternal, God never changes… He is still weeping for the lost souls, still bearing testimony in saints and into this world. He knocks on every door of heart and conscience for repentance and forgiveness and to have supper with Him.

God is one and His ways are mysterious yet so sweet, simple and easy for us for our goodness only. We love such a beautiful God. We are not into temporary peace, not into anything of ours but of God alone. Christ gives us life and rest everything gives us choice between “Good and evil” and “sins”. Brothers be careful for the ‘good’ of “good and evil” is the ‘good Satan’ and the ‘bad’ of “good and evil” is the ‘evil Satan’, but finally is not both of them are Satan only? And the choice two is Sin himself again, Sin is Satan. Satan is death. Pray. Pray with this letter as the first epistle is about to finish… receive the resurrection and you will see GOD, you will dine with GOD and you will rest in GOD.

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

Though all its force against it may combine

Death only gives it opportunity

To show the boundless power of life divine

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

All of God’s fullness it will manifest;

God’s righteousness and holiness it yields,

His glorious image by it is expressed

Oh, may I know this resurrection life,

In every kind of death its power outpoured,

In my experience ever realize

This life is naught but Christ my living Lord

Even the music, joy, peace, gifts, love is from God but nothing can substitute for the Resurrection. Nothing can substitute for the Resurrection of Christ. Amen. Meditate on the Resurrection… pray, cry to Lord, make petitions, seek for wisdom, and do whatever you can, in your strength… God knows your strength and will burden you according to your capacity.

Once you have the Resurrection Life (the regenerated life), once you have understood the unique uniqueness of Christ Resurrection… then you have already affirmed the battle already won for you, in Christ.

Ask Jesus Himself to tell you about His Resurrection, and He is willing to tell you from the long before, Amen! that He got the chance to hug you, kiss you, love you, His lost precious child… amen.

I a bond slave am witness to this, I am crying on my part… Jesus on His part… you on your own part. Praise God and let nothing deviate you from knowing about the Resurrection. Amen.

“That everyone who believes into Him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone who believes into Him would not perish, but would have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

John 3:15-16-17 (Bible, N.T)

“By thy death and resurrection,

Thou wast made God’s first born Son

By Thy life to us imparting,

Was Thy duplication done

We, in Thee regenerated,

Many sons to God became;

Truly as Thy many brethren,

We are as Thyself the same

“Jesus is coming soon.”

Trust ‘God’

Love and Kisses

Your friend: Salil

God bless all.

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” -Colossians 3:16 (Bible, N.T)

Amen and Amen

[Note: /*This letter of mine is in response to Sanjeev's intimacy with his girlfriend, which latter on turned into a sinful affair of fornication. When I came to know about this my heart was burdened for my old school friend and I wrote this letter to him.*/]

March 2005

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” -

Romans 3:23 (Bible, N.T)

My first letter to Sanjeev

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I, Salil, a servant of GOD wish you warm greetings for the day which the Lord has given us, together. Grace be to you and peace from GOD our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. It is with great joy I am writing to you but with a clear understanding of what I am going to say.

“Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them those put their trust in Him.”

Proverbs 30:5 (Bible, O.T)

Listen carefully my dear brother and friend! Let me tell you from my own experience of sin and fornication.

Once my spirit told me, “What benefit have you gained? I ask you? Is this pleasure you call, is this what you dying for? Shame on you flesh, shame on your little faith, shame on your blindness and pride. You are dead in your spirit, do you know that? And God was angry with you and you were (/and are) disappointed with yourself, with your flesh and heart. Nothing is hidden from ‘Him’. It’s like playing naked, no one seeing in the crowd. Do you know this? And when you got no one, you destroyed your own family, over and again.”

But Hallelujah,

Praise the Father and the Son
that redemption’s work is done
Magnify that precious Name
Christ, the Lamb of God, who came.

Before you can sense yourself, ‘He’ understands you and ‘His’ redemption is for real, but remember my dear friend, that the redemption is not to harm you but for your salvation and I know this and I can testify this because of my faith.

I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Behold, I freely give
The living water; thirsty one,
Stoop down and drink, and live.”
I came to Jesus , and I drank
Of that life-giving stream;
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in Him.

“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”

Romans 4:7 (Bible, N.T)

Ask and find, look and see all around you, you will find everything of the Satan but not of the Father God. It doesn’t matter you believe or not, what matters is that- find your purpose and truth of this life, and that you can only find, when you assume a GOD.

“It is not that we actually want an absence of fear or anxiety, what we really want and need is the presence of peace, and it is only with GOD that we find this.”

Long before all these things happened I told you all about. It’s not a joke, it’s not a game. It’s not a matter of feelings and emotions. But what matters is ‘Truth’ and ‘GOD’.

1. Find First: Is there really a GOD?

2. Know ‘HIM’ and start living on your life’s purpose.

I can tell you one thing dear; my beloved friend_in_brother; believe me!! There is a GOD, a true GOD, a living GOD, and one GOD and there is an “eternal life” and “eternal death”. And there is Heaven and Hell!

You are who you are for a reason

You’re part of an intricate plan

You’re a precious and perfect unique design,

Called God’s special woman or man

You look like you look for a reason

Our God made no mistakes

He knit you together within the womb,

You’re just what He wanted to make

No, that trauma you faced was not easy

And God wept that it hurts you so;

But it was allowed to shape your heart

So that into His likeness you’d grow

You are who you are for a reason,

You’ve been formed by the Master’s hand

You are who you are, beloved,

Because there is a God- ever same! Amen and Amen!!

If you think your life is worthy and full of enjoyment; no problem- because then you need not to fear Hell, because it can not be worse than this miserable life. You understand what I mean to say; yes!!! I believe so. Look into your eyes brother, you are no more a God made human but you are a dead flesh, decayed inside and covered with a smiling façade. But our real face is weeping, sad, and heavy. The burden which is more than our capacity to lift!

Thus said Jesus:

“Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Matthew 11:28 (Bible, N.T)

You can not understand this troubled situation. Your flesh is your prison and your spirit is suffocating there. I have no other choice than to do to this. I had to write to you. What can I do? Have pity on me. Think of my tears, which have been spent on you, in prayers, for years. I myself don’t understand how blind have you become?

My prayer to our Father GOD is:

Oh GOD!! My Lord! Praise to ‘You’. All glory to ‘You’ alone. You know us better than everyone else and you love us … and, and that’s the only reason for our existence in this infinity. My friend is my dear; please make your divine temple into him. Think of him. Show your mercy and let your touch be near to his spirit. Let him know you and I want him into the kingdom of GOD, In Yours Kingdom… O Father!! … Into the “Book of Life”. Let Your Grace and mighty presence be near him so that he can believe in you.

No one can deny ‘You’ LORD, and I want him along with his family into the God’s family and in Heaven, we all together. I will not let him go astray. I will never forsake him and help me and strengthen me so that I can become a channel of ‘You’ for him. Let your mercy be with both of us and let yours will be done and not ours. Dear FATHER this appeal to ‘You’. And I love you GOD!! In Christ’s name I pray. Amen.

Father, give him an iron rode and power and might to rule over his flesh and soul. He along with his spirit can live with ‘You’ in “Yours presence”. Save him from all evil and suffering. Show him his real purpose. Thank You Father. Amen.

Well you see how to communicate with our Heavenly Father, Our GOD. Worry not for GOD loves you. You are special like every one of us; we all are special in ‘His’ image, for we are created in ‘His’ image. We are created in ‘God’s image. Wow!! Is not this beautiful? Amen. HALLELULJAH!!!

“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;”

“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them,”

Genesis 1:26a, 27, 28a (Bible, O.T)

And that’s the reason ‘He’ choose me with the burden for you and for all others I know in Chittaranjan and Mihijam around me directly or indirectly. How can one love God and not be burdened for others, for the love of God is so calling, close, and touching infused with the real reality that I can not deny this burden. This will be like quenching our spirit. And I say to this BURDEN Amen and Amen!!

Because He first loved me;
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me:
I trust Him, I trust Him;
Wherever I may be.
My soul is full of glory,
I sing because I’m free;
I love my blessed Savior,
Because He first loved me.

No one in this world is a 100% atheist. No one can be!! Whether you are an agnostic or an atheist or a blinded believer… I don’t know but what I know is that you are not in God and in Life. On the contrary you are far away from life not because you want it but primarily due to ignorance and due to the Devil’s lie. This is the story of all. This was the case of mine few years back, when I was not in the faith God. So we all are equal and same and are helpless and unfaithful and full of dirt and sin within us. No matter how we look from outside!!

But let’s check life, take this opportunity and see for yourself and your life will be different. Dream a dream, and a dream of you and your DIVINE Father, with no ends but with lots of love alone. Taste the true pleasure. Check out the real life. Be away from the evil and also from doing well (/good). Yes!! Be away from good also… they too are DEVILISH. Come closer to the GOD that’s all you need to do. Rest you will do and know by yourself through your Heavenly Father.

If I will try to explain all these things now, it will never end but surely the paper and ink will go. For this is a matter of life and reality, a matter of practicability and not mere teachings. This is not something called religious doctrines or wonderful teachings… looking good in books and on written but not practiced in to the real world. Today the world is drifting away from the GOD. But the story is same in all times, in all nations always. But the saints (all Believers are (called) Saints) and the Believers were (/and are) always corporate with God. Amen. Sing and praise God!!

So allow me to share it with you humbly, in short and bold:

What one gets from the Sin, is not certain and is a lie. But what we loose is open to our eyes, loosing everything of ourselves, drop by drop, moment after moment, when we sin.

You ask me why I love the Lord.
Well, friend, just let me say
Life was not worth living
‘Till the Savior came my way.
You say I lose so much in life.
Yes, friend, PRAISE GOD, I do.
I lose the sin and sorrow
which was all I ever knew.
I lose the days spent seeking joy
The long nights full of tears
I lose the heavy burdens
Which I carried through the years.

But friend, I would not have them back
for all that you could pay.
My life was not worth living
‘Till the Savior came my way.

My Prayer before GOD (for you) is that:

May GOD be with you while you read this (again and again), and give you wisdom to understand it!!

“NO ONE CAN WRITE THE DESTINY OF OTHERS”. “AND EVERYONE HAS TO WORKOUT HIS OWN SALVATION”. YOU YOURSELF HAVE TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS FAITH.

Oh! Just Believe!!

We all are with you. But you have to take your first step out of your free-will. The decision should be of yours only. That’s all you need to do, and rest GOD will willingly do. Isn’t that interesting!!

Prepare yourself, cry before GOD if you find it tough to believe… He will be with you that very moment… in-fact He is with you right now, while you are reading this letter… waiting for your cry to Him. Oh GOD!! OUR WONDERFUL GOD!!

PRAY AND PRAY!! ASK TO ME IF YOU WANT TO SHARE AND TALK. I AM ALWAYS WITH YOU.

PRAY AND PRAY!! IF YOU NEED GOOD BOOKS, HELPFUL BOOKS ASK TO ME FREELY WITHOUT BEING SHY AND HESITATE. THOSE BOOKS WILL BE A GREAT HELP AND AN ADDED BENEFIT TO YOU.

PRAY AND PRAY!!! REST WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN GOD- WHAT WORRY THEN “FOR GOD IS SOVREIGN” AND KNOWS EVERYTHINGS AND WILL GUIDE YOU IN DIVINE MYSTERIOUS WAY. Amen.

He satisfies continually,
Each moment of the day
His love can fill your longing soul,
And care for you always.

Oh yes! My Savior satisfies;
As nothing else can do!!!

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

Matthew 5:3-12 (Bible, N.T)

“I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. Amen.” Revelation 22:20b, 21 (Bible, N.T)

Thank you for reading me. Be in touch and talk to me personally. That will equal to 100 of the letters like this.

Thank you. Good bye.

GOD IS WITH YOU AND LOVES YOU!!!

In divine friendship

Love and kisses.

Yours friend and brother

Salil

-A bond servant of GOD.

Amen and Amen

“That everyone who believes into Him may have eternal life.”

John 3:15 (Bible, New Testament)

My third letter to Sanjeev

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(May 2006)

GOD loves you. Read this letter with an open heart. My prayers are with you, and I am praying for you, May God’s presence be with you in understanding this third letter.

“For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.”

Matthew 7:8 (Bible, N.T)

My many greetings to you; in the name of our Lord, GOD. I am writing my third epistle to you from train (to Ranchi). I am not alone and I am writing to you having your memories with me. I got no place to even stand and so I am sitting on the train’s gate and I am feeling very deep sleep. Let God help us in saving me from dying and from having you my third letter written to you. The first one is safe with me. I wrote it a year ago for you but those days you were too busy with your world. My second letter to you is probably with Deepak or I might have lost that one. I wrote that around 6 months back.

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”

2 Corinthians 3:5, 6 (Bible, N.T)

I covered the outline of faith and my personal feelings about God and about you. So I will repeat the content again here in this third letter. I may loose everything of that while writing. I believe God moves believer’s pen and the blood of the saints is the ink.

Our dedication and expressed love for one another is the flow of words. You might be sleeping now, so may the LORD bless your sleep and keep your family in peace. Amen.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

Hebrews 11:1 (Bible, N.T)

To my right is a lame, dirty beggar and just to my left, (physically in touch with me) is a dirty beggar with dirty cloths. To my front is the vision of night, dark night with moving objects and chilled breeze. In my back there are two extremely poor women (not beggars) sleeping with dirty leaking water from the basin and people feet’s crushing their body. Just two day back I came in 1^st AC and I am now surrounded by beggars. You see this is life. We all are like king and slaves. Symbolically when we are with God, our spiritual condition is like our 1^st AC experience and when we are in our emotions, religions, philosophy, psychology or whatever (which is not GOD alone) then we are like dirty beggars. We are then poor in our spirit. Outwardly we may look good, beautiful, handsome, charming, influencing, and intelligent, brave, religious, holy or whatever good (or bad) but in truth we all are truly decayed from within.

“I have written these things to you that you may know that you have eternal life, to you who believes into the name of the Son of God.”

1 John 5:13 (Bible, N.T)

“The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.”

Romans 8:16 (Bible, N.T)

We all need forgiveness from our sins and first of all we need to understand in our conscience that what sin is? We need redemption first and then enlightenment. We need repentance for then we can see the kingdom of God. We already have lots of teachings, religious doctrines since our childhood but now no more teachings!!!

In heavenly love abiding,

No change my heart shall fear,

And safe is such confiding,

For nothing changes here

My hope I cannot measure;

My path to life is free;

My savior has my treasure,

And He will walk with me.

No more!! We need life, truth and God ‘Himself’. We need not to learn about God rather we need to enjoy our living God. GOD is for our life supply. God is life.

This is my story, this is my song,

Praising my savior all the day long;

This is my story, this is my song,

Praising my savior all the day long

Perfect submission, perfect delight,

Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;

Angels descending, bring from above

Echoes of mercy, whispers of love

Perfect submission, all is at rest,

I in my Savior am happy and blest;

Watching and waiting, looking above,

Filled with His goodness, lost in His love

Now, interestingly when the beggars came in Kulti station (especially the lame one); out of love I stretched out my hand to support him. The love of God was flowing through me that time and I felt infinite love for him that moment. I wanted to share about God and peace to this needy poor man. But even though I was happy (I don’t know for what reason) I was in full love toward him, nevertheless I never imagined that he is going to sit here, just next to me. He was happy with me and he sat with me.

Oh, LORD!! Now the real human nature came. I thought what a dirty man he is; Oh God save me let him go somewhere else. I don’t want to loose this place, so please do something. I disliked his presence with me. The Sin was with me, inside me.

“But everyone shall die for his own sin;”- Jeremiah 31: 30a (Bible, O.T)

All of my expressed love for him (that beggar) vanished in a moment. All my charity, sympathy went away. And slowly-slowly I started hating him for his smell and on my cursed journey. However he didn’t go anywhere else and after sometime he told me he is not alone (and he was not like this before). He used to be a vegetable merchant and slowly- slowly he loosed everything and now he is having nothing. He is having a dear wife who is a beggar, too. (Of course he never mentioned that they are beggars… but always referred themselves as poor).

They had no children to enjoy!!

He was just like us from inside, but from outside he was with fungi, bacteria, viruses and plenty of diseases and clothed in dirt. However he was just the same like we are- a human being. And GOD was watching all these things. I felt for the first time in my life- they (the undesirable-no matter whosoever) are just like us (In real experience). We all are rotten from within but some are dirty outwardly and some are good looking. We people of this society (poor, middle, and rich) are dead within (the same way the beggars and the undesirables are) and decayed, cunning, liars but pretending ourselves good from outside.

This is a lie and a façade on our face. Our real face is ugly. Thus said God:

“Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.”

Amos 5:23 (Bible, O.T)

Now, consider both a beggars and a general man. I ask you, is it a big difference in the life span of 60-100 years (between the beggars and general man). I don’t think so. The beggar will die in his poverty and the rich will die too in his riches. But what is the end result; they both are sinners in front of God and need repentance and forgiveness.

They both need to come to the love of God. They (/we) all need God in this regard. We are helpless and I love that we are helpless so we can come to God. Our God enjoys in helping. What a beautiful enjoyment and joy we have when we come to God for help. Amen.

All categories of human social status are missing one thing in common and that is “GOD”.

Jesus said: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Mark 1: 15 (Bible, N.T)

Well; in my case too, till Dhanbad came they all went away without even looking at me. However when Ranchi came in the early morning I was in repentance before God (For my human nature). I was not in the true love with that beggar. I was not in the peace before God. One side I was happy and rejoicing for God’s mercy and insight, the other side I was deeply grieved in my heart and my heart was heavy. I prayed, and I prayed. I was helpless and God was my tower of strength that time.

“I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”

Jeremiah 31:19b (Bible, O.T)

“Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.” – Luke 7:50b (Bible, N.T)

“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.”

1 John 3:1 (Bible, N.T)

May be the next time in the same situation (or not) – matters not, I will be able to love even a dirty beggar and I will be in a passion to share about God so that to hug him and then to share to him about God’s love for the mankind. May God help me in this regard. May God bless us both (you and me) to have “GOD ALONE” flowing in our blood!!!

Start enjoying God as your food and drink!! Sing and pray with the hymns!!

“HALLELULJAH ANYWAY” (praise God anyway; praising God anyway)

I am thine O Lord; I have heard thy voice,

And it told thy love to me,

But I long to raise in the arms of faith

And be closer drawn to thee.

Draw me nearer… nearer, nearer, nearer blessed lord, To

The cross where thou hast died

Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessed Lord,

To thy precious bleeding side

Yes!! God is here today; believe me, with you, and waiting to love you, and to touch you. Please… let ‘Him’ and let ‘God alone’.

Yes, ‘He’ will ponder every care,

Consider each detail;

You, your burthen, let ‘Him’ bear,

‘He’ will not, cannot, fail…!!

“Jesus is coming soon!!”

Love and Kisses

Your friend: – Salil.

Trust ‘GOD’!!

Good night!! Good bye!!

Amen and Amen!!

“Leave your gift there before the altar, and first go and be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”

Matthew 5:24 (Bible, N.T)

My first letter to Ripon

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June 2006

God’s revelation to John regarding the seven Churches and so said the Lord God:

“I know your works:” (- 15a)

“I will spew you out of My mouth.” (-16b)

“For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.”

Revelation 3:15, 16, 17 (Bible, N.T)

Shortly after one verse Jesus says;

“Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with Me.”

Revelation 3:19-20 (Bible, N.T)

This is the Grace (God will do for us) of God in Christ Jesus through His Spirit for the whole human race; HIS ETERNAL SALVATION for all, including you and me. Amen.

May the Lord Almighty forgive me; in action the person I talked of eternal salvation first is the person I am writing the last. I well remember the day when you told me that you are now like a white sheet and before exploring Christianity, (since then you are talking of Religion and not of God) I would like to know my own god. You said: “for this I need time” and from that very moment- I never forced you for anything; absolutely nothing! You yourself can testify it!!

While I am writing this letter with a great Joy; I am also suffering from the heavy burden in my conscience and grieves (in my heart) for your becoming an extremist (again in a religious way forsaking God).

“They are constantly in my thoughts. I cannot stop thinking about them.”

Psalm 77:12 (Bible, O.T)

Let us begin with my humble apologize to you if I hurt your sentiments anyhow and in anyway. Also I humbly seek and ask your pardon for this letter if you find it worthless and hurtful. Moreover I believe that God, the unique healer and Peace will heal every need of yours and May you have Peace in Him. Amen!

I am sorry that I was not able to properly explain the things to you yesterday. But believe me, God is here today with you and me while both writing and reading this letter.

Now why a letter? A letter because – to tell you the exact wordings and then to fellowship with you, together. This will lead us to faith; unlike a religious controversy which God never intended.

Dear brother, why should we point to other’s weaknesses and failures. In a literal sense (language) they call it ‘touching the nerve’. ‘Touching the nerve’ (with any intention which is not of God) results into dreadful and spiritual death; while the person who touches the nerves becomes an instrument for Satan to bring unintentional evil. Please dear friend you should focus here and repent before God, for at the end nothing will remain and matter except our own personal relationship with God. Do not focus on Christian charity but on God’s love and compassion. The all inclusive Christ should be the focus.

Faith comes from God (alone) while religion came from human race and therefore is devilish (serpentine) in inner nature. In essence we (the whole fallen mankind and the corrupted creation) are serpentine in nature and hence religions too, are serpentine in nature. Do you see this my dear friend and brother?

“May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ”- 2 Thessalonians 3:5 (Bible, N.T)

Dear Ripon, I humbly request you to have a continuous fellowship with the brothers and sisters and so to receive first the God’s unending love and then finding other things for you (but when you first believe in the God). Cheating in CCNA and jumping the gate is not the same; just like cheating in CCNA and not lying to Anuj that I don’t have the question paper is two different things. When one evil thing can be a ‘temptation’; another can be a ‘willful evil’. Moreover let me tell you that our job is neither to judge anyone nor to condemn anyone. Everyone is fighting and is aware of his/her deeds. Let me give you an example here: If we think that by telling everyone that “you are doing this wrong and that was evil”, we are doing a righteous job, then in actuality, we are being deceived by the old serpent! It might be true for others but then it is death for us every time. Every person knows what he is doing and is fighting (although man is born blind) but let us listen to what God says on this:

“For God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

John 3:17 (Bible, N.T)

Dear Ripon the Bible is very different on this matter. The Bible says: do not focus on the good and right and also do not walk by law and by your sight but by ‘Faith alone’. Jesus came to earth for accomplishing the complete victory over Satan (the old serpent) and death (the things of the old creation) and thus He also redeemed us (as well as the old creation) from the bondages of law and human conducts and ethics in His all-sufficient death and wonderful resurrection . Christian ethics is nothing but to enjoy the Life of God, and exercising the spirit. You see when one exercises his spirit everything of the filthy sins will become like as white as snow.

Let us see this from the essence of the Bible:

When I am in Adam, though I may not sin,

Unto death, a sinner, sentenced I have been;

When in Christ I need not righteously to act,

I’m already righteous, justified in fact.

Man (people) need love and are very week, serpentine yet innocent in ‘fact’; come to God, Ripon this is the time and I will wait upon you till the end of the time: Do you see this? I often pray these words:

But, fragile are those souls and week

So this is why your words I seek

And pray thee give me words to say

That I, not one soul, turn away.

Lord, give me the right words to say

More hearts are breaking everyday

That, Lord, you long to overflow

With love and mercy; Lord, let me know.

Oh we need to be saved. We need to turn aside from the self- seeking, self-righteous way. The Bible says: “There is none righteous, not even one;”

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”

-Romans 3:10,23(Bible, N.T)

“For we account that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.”

“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;” -Romans 3:28,24 (Bible, N.T)

And: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; Not of works that no one should boast,” -Ephesians 2:8-9 (Bible, N.T)

Saint Sarmartas mean the word of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew, that: “I prefer a person who has sinned, and knowing that he has sinned, has repented, over one who has not sinned and consider himself very righteous.”

Here I give you some versus to ponder and meditate. These are the very words spoken by the Saviour (Lord Jesus) Himself. Do consider it yourself. May the light shine and the darkness vanishes into the Glory of God.

Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of My Father who is in the Heavens.

Matthew 7:21 (Bible, N.T)

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.” -Matthew 5:7 (Bible, N.T)

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill.” -Matthew 5:17. (Bible, N.T). Verse 44 says:

But I say to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

Do not judge, that you be not judged.

Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be open to you.

Matthew 7:1, 7 (Bible, N.T)

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. – Matthew 6:33 (Bible, N.T)

If talking in the sense of God’s life no one is different than others in sinning. There may be many good persons and upright man whose moral conduct is better than of mine and whose steps are more according to the law whereas mine not that accurate to the law; but then we as a believer are under His divine Grace:

In the book of Hebrew (Bible, N.T) we see a great hope. In this hymn we see the Joy of finding that hope:

Naught have I gotten but what I received;

Grace hath bestowed it since I have believed;

Boasting excluded, pride I abase;

I’m only a sinner saved by grace!

Only a sinner saved by grace!

Only a sinner saved by grace!

This is my story, to God be the glory,

I’m only a sinner saved by grace!

Tears unavailing, no merit had I;

Mercy had saved me, or else must I die;

Sin had alarmed me, fearing God’s face;

But now I’m a sinner saved by grace!

Only a sinner saved by grace!

There is much hope today!! From now on I will not let you go astray! Only you can step forward Ripon! People are as they are whether eating or clothing; living or music. We have to love them as they are. In words of Mother Teresa:

“You see, in the final analysis,

It is between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway.”

Whether food or whatever. Faith as Jesus gave us in the Gospels will tell you furthermore:

Faith always has a good report!

I walk by faith

And not by sight

I am a faith person

I refuse doubt

I refuse fear

I am a child of faith God

My faith works

And I walk by faith

And not by any human law!!

“Hallelujah anyway” means “praise God anyway; praising God anyway”. Is not that beautiful? That’s living faith in a living God.

To sum up let God end this letter by His divine words as our life supply:

“And knowing that a man is not justified out of works of law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we also have believed into Christ Jesus that we might be justified out of faith in Christ and not out of the works of law, because out of the works of law no flesh will be justified.”

Galatians 2:16 (Bible, N.T)

After two verses Paul says:

“For I through law have died to law that I might live to God.” – Verse: 19.

I finish here and let God continue from here being with you. May the grace of God be always upon you. Peace be to you. Amen

Love and Kisses.

Salil

Trust ‘GOD’!!

Amen and Amen

“In His will is our peace.”
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

My Second letter to Deepak

June 2006

See, Father, Thy beloved Son,
Whom here we now present to Thee;
The all sufficient Sacrifice,
The sinner’s one and only plea.

Through Him we pray for all we love,
For all by pain or sin oppressed;
For souls departed in Thy fear:
O grant them eternal rest.

My dearest Deepak, my most beloved friend in Chittaranjan; my heart! My many Greetings and fresh flowers to you in the name of our Living God -Christ Lord Jesus. May the living Faith and His abundant mercy be upon you and I. Amen!

God loves you and is truly merciful upon you for the words you heard from me which was of God Himself have come into your heart. There is peace. This peace is a great calm. May this peace be with All! This very peace is actually a Person, He Himself, the All Inclusive Christ. He abides in us and we abide in peace for the peace abides in us, mutually.

God constantly reminds me about you in both my prayers and concern. This very name ‘Deepak’ has become lovely to me. I do believe that God is going to stir this name and your heart for His purpose. But first of all I must tell you that I am writing to you while returning from Ranchi. It’s very hot in train. However I am not alone here but with multitudes of God’s wonderful creation (man). I enjoyed the conversations with some of the young travelers on God. I regret that I am not fully for God (like Apostle Paul) or otherwise I would have followed these boys to their salvation. Anyhow I believe that God has His plan and a set time to fulfill everything, any day, anytime.

“After the Lord resurrects you, He makes you fruitful. He brings others into your life. He brings someone to whom He wishes to commute divine love…. The love you will now express is simply the movement of the resurrected life within you.” - Madame Jeanne Guyon

I have already written to Sanjeev, Avijit, and Amit and to one of my flesh brother. I, in my all ability is nothing and useless but with God’s ability flowing through my blood and nerves, I do my best to not exercise my ‘self’ (which is a hindrance to divine life) but let God Himself dispense Him into us. His dispensing is our living and our living is by faith, realizing who Jesus Christ is. I believe you’re the pillar upon which God is going to build His faith among our friends first and then the revival will come to many. Amen. Our dear friends (Nand and Abishek) are happy and fine. Nand’s closeness to faith is increasing and I am having regular contact with him. To Abishek when the time comes I will share the marvelous Gospel.

“It’s different for other people; but we in our green youth have to settle the eternal questions first of all. That’s what we care about.”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You are different from others, even from Shakespeare. His faith is shaking but to you God has given a good heart. Let this heart be useful to God and let no rocks and thorns occupy this good land. Eat Christ and be saved from worldly corruption. To you (while I am not able to be in a regular touch), I believe that God Himself will be your portion. You are strong but that is not enough, you must be diligent in pursuing Christ and to be the one who tastes after Him, in Him. So you are the desired one. I encourage you in good cause lest one becomes a stumbling block to you. Many troubles, temptations, rebuke will come from the enemy and men. They will laugh on you and they will mock you. But you (O son of faith) do not be afraid, for the Lord is with you. Be strong in your faith. Learn to pray and pray quite frequently. Speak out your prayer from your mouth exercising your spirit and not in mind. Please avoid praying in the mind.

“Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart – naught be all else to me, save that Thou art; Thou my best thought by day or by night – waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.” - 8th Century Irish hymn

Do not get deviated by man’s speaking and words no matter what they say and whoever they may be. But be close to God, Life and to Faith. You are not alone, we are the countless saints in the God’s family and we all are the many members of the One Body of Christ, the Household of God, ‘His’ Building. You are a saint and you can be a channel for God to heal a many countless burdened people. People are hungry both for food and for the Life. So, you see a lot of work is needed to be done. Be not a weak and coward brother but face the evil in face, with eye in the eye. God is with us, with you and with me. Amen. God is not a product of human philosophy or religion, but our God is a real, living God. He knows us and He will provide you your wants and need.

“And with great power the apostles gave testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. For neither was anyone among them in need; for as many as were owners of lands or of houses sold them and brought the proceeds of the things which were sold. And placed them at the feet of the apostles; and it was distributed to each, as anyone has need. And Joseph, who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated, Son of encouragement), a Levite, a Cyprian by birth, Who possessed a field, sold it and brought the sum of money and placed it at the feet of the apostles.” – Acts 4:33-37

Open your heart and try to be in fellowship together and tell me how I can be in touch with you. Please do not hurry in responding and so to enter into religion. No! Never, But be calm and patience and wait upon the Lord. He will call you Himself and His call will be undeniable to those who are pure in heart. Be prepared to meet thy Lord. He is coming soon. Please start reading the Gospel of John, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, and then the Gospel of Luke, and the Acts.

Faith is a gift from God. Believe is a personal matter. Dear brother Deepak you are now a matured person and you can understand all these now. The truths are waiting to set you free. Be hungry upon the truths and eat Jesus daily.

“It is natural to admit the existence of a God as soon as one opens one’s eyes…. The creation betokens the Creator.” - Voltaire

Faith is the most important thing and you can gain it in the Gospels. Faith comes from hearing; hearing the Word of God. Faith is a free gift from God, Oh dear just look to the Christ alone. Christ is our faith. In the writings of Apostle Paul (the epistles) you will build up your faith. Start reading, and read eagerly, vigorously, fast, and as if one is starving to read. Hallelujah, What a reading! Amen. May the Lord be merciful to you and bless you abundantly.

“When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.” – John Piper

May God help you and give you wisdom. Peace be unto you. Read all with an open heart. Look to the real self and the filthiness inside us. The self is dead and fallen. It is corrupt and with full of sins. Repent from your sins. The Gospels will give you the real understanding and the conviction of sins.

“Either sin will keep you from the Word, or the Word will keep you from sin.” – John Bunyan

We all are sinners in the eyes of God. We all are equal since we all are sinners, no matter greater or smaller. God is Holy and Pure so any impurity (sin) is enough to separate us from the divinity of God. So we all are equally guilty and convicted before God. We all are unholy and our God who is a waiting God, is waiting for our response, here and there, everywhere, always and ever until we return! He wants His sons to return home.

“Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.” - A. W. Tozer

The Lord God will touch a many through you so it is not only a matter of Life and Death for you alone but also a matter of Eternal Life and Death for many the ones those who are waiting upon you or will be in your circle of contacts.

“By those who come near ‘Me’ I will be treated as holy, and before all the people I will be honored.” - Leviticus 10:3 “…but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” - 1 John 1:7

May the Lord give and supply abundant faith and burden to you and this is also my prayer to the Lord on behalf of you. And at last but the instant reminder of our rejoicing that God is for our enjoyment, for our real satisfaction and not for mere teachings. May God give you this understanding. Have your copy of letters from Avijit and Sanjeev and share yours with Shakespeare and Avijit. To Sanjeev, I will give myself, a photocopy of this one.

“I bow to the sovereignty of God my heavenly Father; I have no will but His.  We know that God is love, and if, with love of which there is no measure, there be conjoined wisdom which makes no mistakes, what becomes us, His children, but to be full of thankfulness?” - R. C. Chapman

Goodbye. Have a blessed day.

In divine friendship

Salil

PS: Brother Chapman once said, “There are many who preach Christ, but not so many who live Christ. My great aim will be to live Christ.”

“Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God’s glory!”

David Brainerd (1718 -1747)

May 2006

My First letter to Avijit

“See that no one leads you astray.” – (Matthew 24:4b, Bible, N.T)

O Dear Avijit, my dearest friend, my beloved friend since my childhood. My many Greetings and fresh flowers to you in the name of our Living God!

Give my regards to your parents and Uncle. May God bless you and may you accept God’s love in your soul. I am writing to you so that I can deal the most important business with you. The business I am talking here is none other but the Salvation in the Living God. Peace be upon you!

“As lyre and the musician,

As thought and spoke word,

As rose and fragrant odors,

A flute and breath accord;

So deep the bond that binds me

To Christ my Lord!

- (Narayan Vaman Tilak)

I am writing this with half of my self sleeping in the train; my way to Ranchi, sitting on the door, praying and writing so that I may not die tonight (by falling from train, although Praise God that I have already finished one letter). This is among my toughest time … and I am in my Lord. I take refugee in God.

“This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus – that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!” – (John Paton)

My beloved Avijit, its three in the night and this time reminds me of something most important of all time in the whole history. At three in the afternoon, Jesus died and took away our sins. Even ‘He’ died as Sin! He changed and made everything ‘New’. Amen! He died to forgive our sins and to impart everlasting Glorious God-man life to us.

“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! – (John 1:29b, Bible, N.T)

When He was being crucified, the clouds came (Dark Clouds) as God was dealing with the mankind’s sins. And it was dark, just like three in the night. So I am burdened to share all this with you. Look my brother_in_friend, my dearest friend_as_brother, our country is a religious country and no religion is better than others… including the religion Christianity. But here in this letter of mine in which I am not preaching, but having conversation with you and I am focused on Faith, Reality, and Life and on my own Testimony.

“Jesus, Savior, once betrayed,
Sacrifice for sinners made,
Wretched, lost, to thee I fly;
Save, O save me, or I die!”

• An old Hymn of petition

I am not an extra-intelligent person, I am not the most-wisest person, I am not the most knowledgeable person either, and I am not considering these cases, too. But believe me dear, “God is real, God exists and He is the Creator.” Just look to this Universe and the vastness of the Creation. Even the complexity of human life is worth wondering and note-taking!

“Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.”
- (J.B. Priestly)

Dear Avijit, Isn’t that we all are unique in our talents; we all are unique in our purpose… God gave us just what we can handle better. But one thing God gave to All; to everyone of us with equal share and do you know what that is? It is the “Free-Will”. We are free to choose and free to do anything (but only until we are no more but dead)! Our Free-Will to make decisions and our Free-Will to choose God or anything else than God Himself!

“How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you—for that is the meaning of your life.”
- (Martin Buber)

Brother as I am in half sleep I do not know how to write what I am writing? But surely God is moving my pen, I love God and I trust God with all my ability. Brother the society you are born into is bound to make you a “religious sinner” or a hypocrite (at worst) or an atheist or agnostic (at best). So nothing to worry, this is the same common story of all the people, all nations, and all countries, all cultures, and all the religions, since the ancient to until now.

“In my pursuit of Truth neither I had love for India, my country nor any feelings for mankind, my species. Oh one day I saw light! I had no respect for man and I had no inclination for whatsoever good things you name. Do you see a worst person here? Oh I was and I found Truth. A worst person found it. Miracle! This is miracle!!”

And Christ is still searching and weeping being sorrowful; knocking and bearing testimony to All creatures … of the true love of God which He has for us. God loves us with more than the love we love Him. God is our true Father. God is the sole Source of everything. Our God is a living, One God. He is a living God. Aren’t you happy?

“There is no other God beside ‘Me’. I am a righteous and rescuing God; there is no God apart from ‘Me’. Look to ‘Me’ and be saved. All the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.” - (Isa. 45:21, Bible, O.T)

God is not energy, something supernatural, something which is into our minds, heart or thought. God is neither flesh nor mind. But God is Spirit! God can not be created into the laboratories. But He is the Creator of the whole Universe. Can anyone in your knowledge explain the mystery of LIFE, CREATION, UNIVERSE, and so on. The list is very long. NO. I tell you – no one can! But the very hidden God is revealed in Christ!

“Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” – (1 Tim. 1:17, Bible, N.T)

So be faithful and you are important. God can’t be explained in Philosophy. God is simply God. God is Divine and Holy. God Himself alone is Life, Rest, and Ultimate Reality. All else are empty teachings. Man is utterly empty and so are his teachings. The World is utterly void of satisfaction and so are its offerings. So be careful dear of all what you hear and look around you.

“It was not man who implanted in himself the taste for what is infinite and the love of what is immortal; these lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in human nature, and they exist in spite of his efforts. He may cross and distort them; destroy them he cannot.”
- (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Faith is not easy to gain so start thriving for it. Jesus is willing to help you and our God who knows everything understands your heart. Pray and God will hear you. I am with you my friend and I will be with you, as I love you, telling you always until anyone of us first die. Aren’t you happy to see… how much love God is able to put in us? We were so evil, so ugly but now we are the sinners saved by His Grace.

“Love is an exotic; it is not a plant which will flourish naturally in human soil, it must be watered from above.” – (C. H. Spurgeon)

“The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of the New Testament faith.” – (A. W. Tozer)

Yes!! I thank God, I cannot be holy of my own, but God can save me still when I am a sinner under His infinite Grace. Then He will mold us, shape us, and fill us with His Life.

“But to those who did receive Him He granted authority to become God’s children, that is, to those who believe in His name, who owe their birth neither to human blood, nor to physical urge, nor to human design, but to God.” – (John 1:12, 13, Bible, N.T)

“The deepest longing of the human heart and the deepest meaning of heaven and earth are summed up in this: “the glory of God”. The universe was made to show it, and we were made to see it and savor it. Nothing less will do.” – (John Piper)

My second letter will follow this one, at least you can hope for it dear. And share this with Deepak and Shakespear. Keep this with yourself (the original) and read it alone with an open heart. Repent and Pray.

Good bye and good night.

Love and Kisses

In divine friendship

Salil

(Oh what a Salvation is this that “Christ liveth in me.”)

PS: “Our God is a living God”.

“When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found in it the key to your own heart….”

Dear Aditya Don’t Settle for Less

May 2007

“For you are people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession, out of all the people that are on the face of the earth.” -Deuteronomy 7:6

Dear Aditya, my many greetings and love to you. May the fragrance and aroma of the fresh Spirit be with you. Amen. In this letter what my true burden for you is that: please don’t settle for less!

Don’t settle for less Aditya

Don’t stop, don’t regress

You have greater things inside

You have yet to hit your stride

Too often we stop

Too often we drop

The dreams we once had-

We settle for the bad

You’re made for the top

You’re cream of the crop

You’re not second best

Don’t settle for less

With fellowshipping with brother Mukul and the Lord God, what I feel is that IF you want to lend your heart to the Lord, then do stay in B-706 with brothers and sisters. Brother and sisters in Christ are the best, finest, pure and the true intimate friends. No worldly gimmicks can fade this fact. I read your testimony in Mukul’s computer and I Praise God for your testimony!

Dear brother, after we go to NDSU, you and Mukul are the ones who have to bring the souls from poverty to riches, from suffering to Joy, from pain to eternal internal(-external) pleasures, and from the inner voidness (emptiness) to the real (true) Satisfaction. Is not that something wonderful in your portion? Ah! The Lord always sent disciples in the group of two and never alone. Those who have the privilege of laboring for the Lord alone are truly blessed and are few. However you consider before the Lord and I wish that you must stay in Brother’s Apartment!

Prateek and Divyanshu are good or bad are not my concern, was never the concern. The children of God does not look on external Good or Bad, Right or Wrong. They look only to Jesus, the All in All, the All-Inclusive, the Lamb of God. So please don’t think that I am asking you to choose good from bad. No. Rather I am asking you to Consecrate yourself fully before the Lord; I am asking you to Pray earnestly before God and seek what His will is. What eternity is in the portion of Good and Bad? It is death! Don’t you know in Genesis 2:9, it is between ‘God’s Life’ verses ‘Good and Evil’? So what benefit is in bringing Aditya from one place to another on the basis of ‘benefit’, ‘future’, or ‘good place and bad place’ ? This is the way of blind, rebelling religion! But on the other hand our concern is One True Eternal Living God Himself and His Life and His Life supply. Amen.

Please do allow me to share an example on the blindness and shortness in our eyes. Let us consider that Prateek is your friend. Fine! You love him and he loves you, too. You both are well adjusted to each other and understands each-other. Alright. Now I am in no way that close to either of you. But my writing covers both of you. Alright! This shows that you both are in my heart also, true. But: I, speaking to Prateek and Aditya is not a matter of my emotions and my likeness or gossip or back-biting or of my self will. But in God’s Love, Light and Life the words proceeds out from my heart. I consider both of you as my own brother. And I am subjected to my Father, too. Now who is greater: The Father or the brother? Whom do I need to obey and treasure more? Aditya do you see this principle?

The believers are not only our brothers and sisters and our intimate friends but are also now in ‘the Son’ (Jesus). And the Son is in Father, with Father, and is Father. So all the believers are also (in like manner) in Father, in Father’s Life, Likeness and Nature. (But not in the Godhead.) So our treasuring brothers and sisters (intimate friends) in Christ is equal to Obeying Father and treasuring Father God. While our sticking to worldly thoughts, feelings, consideration, friends, relatives and family is actually our treasuring ‘the self’. In hard and fact speaking, actually it is not Aditya treasuring Prateek (in the above example) but Aditya treasuring Aditya. It is ‘the very self’ which is above all in the fallen Human life. In worldly sense my loving and caring to Prateek is actually my loving and caring to ‘myself’. Ah! It is tough to see this now (initially) but I tell you to consider it. This will require (demand) your intimate fellowship and relationship with God to see these facts. In God’s Light even the most white things will appear dark and with full of filthy sins. Have you ever experienced this? I believe you must have, at least a few times, if I am not wrong. But I pray, May the Lord have his mercy upon you to see this truth, that actually it is ‘Sin’ and ‘the self’ above all in our natural human life. Oh how pitiful!

Again coming back to the central line of this letter, what I feel that you need to pray more. I believe there is a lack in your prayer life. Do you see this, Aditya? I, humbly ask you one thing to fellowship with God. You ask what Your Will is, Father God? O Lord Jesus, O Lord Jesus: If I stay in B-706, will that be good for You Lord? Or if I stay with my own, with my friends, will that be good for You Lord? I am weak Lord and I cannot even enjoy You as I should enjoy; but Lord let me know what is Your Will concerning me. I pray for my friends, too, Lord let us see Your Light. Lord above all -Let me know Your Heart’s desire and Purpose and Will for me. Amen.

Brother if you pray such a prayer and in like-manner (even once) you will have a inner feeling or definitely a verse from His Word that you should consider the Lord, and Lord’s interest, immediately. So your staying in B-706 is not merely an outer matter of Brother Aditya’s staying in Brothers Apartment but moreover it is an intrinsic matter of the Body of Christ. Your staying is not only a matter of your interest but moreover it’s a matter of Lord’s interest. It is a testimony. It is a wonderful blending of believers. There will be the mingling of God and Man through continual fellowship. You will enjoy Lord more and in a practical sense. You will be able to see your purpose and destiny (Hallelujah the New Jerusalem). God’s desire is nothing less than God Himself. He wants a corporate expression of Himself through Man throughout eternity. Do you want to taste God in this way? Then do consider and pray earnestly, crying and making petitions before Him. The Spirit and blessings will be out-poured and you will have the newness of Spirit. Amen.

“But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” -2 Timothy 2:22

May 2007

THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK IN LIFE

Hello dear Chetan! My many greetings and love to you! To tell you honestly what I especially feel burdened for this letter is to fellowship with you that ‘Reading’ is important in our life. Moreover a right kind of reading habit can in-fact change our life. Reading changes our whole perspective and the angle from which we look unto things. Reading books are good. Actually first we all need to see that reading is a good habit, and we all should gain this habit. However I am going to reveal a secret to you. We saw a good reading habit is needed for our life to develop and grow. Further we also know that there are many things in this Universe to know about and to read and learn. So what actually to read? What must be read? What is the most important thing about reading? This all hidden and complex things are what I am going to tell you, shortly. Oh! Can you feel your breath? You are going to know the secret and understand a mystery. Praise God!

“In the beginning God (Hebrew-Elohim) created the heavens and the earth.” -Genesis 1:1

Throughout my whole experience and believe, I strongly feel that one must read Genesis and the Gospel of John in his life. These two books are the most important book in this Universe as long as you do not believe in God or you can not feel peace with God. And if you are a believer then even you must re-read these two books thoughtfully, seriously and in depth. You are then in a situation which is unavoidable. You must read it all again. Anyways don’t think that this is also good or that is also good. I like this or oh! That book is awesome. The above both books are something so wonderful that the more you see, the more you are going to love it. The more you dig out, the more you will feel to read, and re-read it. Even hundreds and thousands of times will seem insufficient. Yes! I mean it! This is true.

The story of reading doesn’t ends with bringing a habit of reading into us but something more is there. Some read to entertain themselves, some read to explore, some read to know and accumulate knowledge. All reading has purpose. Many read just for the sake of reading and few become friends with books, they can read anything. All these depict our living and habits. But why do we read? Do you ever thought this before? Why reading is important? Why books are so prominent in our human history, and in our evolution of understanding. Dear brother and friend, you must see one thing that there are lots of hidden plot and scenes behind the stage. All things seem to be happening at the stage but actually there are more noise and works behind the scenes. The stage is little in action but the backyard is full of action and planning. Do you see this? Similarly there are many principles all acting under divine guidance. God is a living God. God is active and in action, too. Nevertheless there are many other things at actions too. Satan is subtle, and loves to hide himself. He works and comes subtly. He loves concealing things. Man is fallen and corrupted. Our body has become flesh with full of lusts, evils. But praise God that there is light.

The Bible is a wonderful book. It is wonderful because it is the Word of God. The living God has revealed Himself as the written living Word. But brother the same written words can be the word of letters or it can be a Life giving source. We must see this principle clearly. We saw that how people read and why people read. Many types we saw in the above paragraph. All those types signify that man is reading for knowledge and self. Man loves ‘knowledge’. Man treasures ’self’. Is not that what you love, too? I feel you must be encountering this fact. This is man’s situation. Man does not love ‘Life’ but appreciates knowledge above all things. Their life is knowledge. True Life is God Himself. God is the source of Life. Satan is the source of knowledge. Knowledge appears to be good from outward but conceals death beneath. There is death at the end of knowledge. Knowledge can not give Life, neither can it create Life. Life is eternal. God is eternal. Anything other than the eternal God will perish one day. God Himself is the causeless cause. He is eternal. Life and God goes together. On the other hand all things will eventually die. We will die. The stars will die. The stones will die and even the galaxy you live in is going to perish one day. Everything has one common, same fate at the end, and that is death. But praise God that Life is Life. Life is something which is opposite of death. Death can not concur Life. Is not this is awesome and Life giving? Oh! Praise the Lord for His all-sufficient death on the Calvary!

The heavens God’s glory declare,
And the sky the work of His hands.
From day to night, to all the earth,
The things of God they speak forth.
God’s eternal power and attributes
Though invisible to human eyes,
Through creation they are made manifest,
By things made are realized.

Dear Chetan! Now I am going to reveal to you another secret. That is ‘the Book’. The Genesis is the first book of the Bible. Genesis is written by Moses. This book contains the seed of all the books of the Bible. Plus this book contains the History of Mankind, Man’s fall, Development of languages, coming of idols in human concept. Oh this book is simply marvelous! The Bible is derived from the Latin word ‘Biblio’ which means ‘the Book’. So the Bible actually means ‘the Book’. A book which contains Life and God’s History with man. The Bible is the book which mentions God is both personal and impersonal. Further God as personal has a divine Economy (plan). Man is the center of this plan. Praise God! Similarly the Gospel of John is the fourth book of the New Testament. It is written by apostle John. This book is the story of Jesus and about His divine attributes (i.e. that He is the Son of God; God Himself).

Our main topic is reading. Let us not get deviated from the central line. Up-to now we saw that Bible is actually a book or more accurately to speak a collections of books (total 66) written by 41 different authors of various languages, at various places and over the time span of 1600 years! This is simply marvelous! This is wonderful! Yet all the books are on the same line and speaking the things of God, on one central line (according to the present truth). Oh! We really need God’s mercy to see this clearly. Now let us just look to the Book of Genesis and Gospel of John, separately. Do you like this? Alright lets go further.

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;” -Genesis 1:26a. And

God gave Man the dominion over all the things of earth. (b).

The Book of Genesis! This book is a real pearl to the whole Universe. All man and woman those who can read should read it. Those who can not read it, (like the tribal people) need to hear the Words of Genesis. But Why? What is this book, you must be pondering? Your wondering is correct and if you are not wondering than start now, for we are going to a vast speedy ranch. Hallelujah!

The book of Genesis starts with the story of Creation which alone is the only Source in the whole Universe of divine Word concerning divine creation, that God created. God is creator. All these are because God is. Simply speaking Genesis tells us one simple thing that if you just look to this world, stars, and space your deep within will tell you that God is the creator. And we along with all these things including this visible Universe are His wonderful Creation. Amen! Is not this wonderful, amazing? Praise God! Genesis of-course starts with the details of Creation but it has unsearchable insights, we need to go ahead. The book then presents us the picture of Two Trees. Oh this is awesome, and great. I love this. Man was placed before the Two Trees, the Tree of Life and the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. Do you see this that the first tree mentioned is the Tree of Life. This Tree of Life is actually Life, the eternal Life. The Life which is indestructible. Such a Life is God Himself. He Himself. Amen! And to tell you more, God’s intension is that man should abide by the law of Life. Man should contain this Life. It simply means, Man should contain God Himself and express Him. What is God’s purpose? God’s purpose is to simply make man to make man express God in life and nature, but not in the Godhead. WOW! In another words, God made man to make man God in life and nature, but not in the Godhead. This is the divine Economy, the Household management of God, the Father. The personal God! Do you see this?

“Then the Lord God (Hebrew-Jehovah) formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” -Genesis 2:7

God as impersonal is the Creator and the reason behind all reason. He is the Causeless Cause. He is simply existing. Since God is a living God He express Himself. Only living can express. Whereas God as personal not only created and Caused but also made man so as to express Himself through man. Beautiful! Is not this beautiful? Are you satisfied? Are you following me? God is the Father, a real living eternal Father. God is ever new! Nevertheless God has a personal relationship with man. His creation’s center is man. Oh! Man is important. And above all God wants that man should contain God just as a vessel is made to contain something. Man is a vessel too, with three parts. The spirit, the soul, and the body (Genesis 2:7, see above). The spirit is the organ to contain God. Since God is spirit and we have a human spirit, therefore beware it can catch fire. By the mingling of this two spirit. There can be fire all the time, anytime whenever this two spirit comes closer, together! Whenever they touch each other. Oh this is the picture of the Tree of Life signifying Life as its fruit and God as its Source and Content. I Praise God for such a Tree. Praise God!

“And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” -Genesis 2:9

Next is the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. The first special thing to notice about this Tree is to see that unlike the Tree of Life and opposite to it, the name of this Tree is not the Tree of Death. The name is however the Tree of Knowledge. The Knowledge of Good and Evil. Another thing to look is to see that here, in this tree it has two kinds of fruits. One is the Good fruit and another is the Evil fruit. And moreover the ‘Good’ is mentioned before ‘Evil’ here. Oh! Pitiful is man’s condition today. With full of rocks and thrones and hard heart. The mind is ‘Restless’ and the man lives in ‘in-consistency’. ‘Boredom’ and ‘Anxiety’ are the pillars of our lives today. Yet we fail to see the Source of all these. The source is the same old one, the Tree of Death. Right. Yes the Tree of knowledge is actually the Tree of Death but as we saw that Satan loves to hide himself. All things of death are subtle, it does not appear at face. Nothing is true and actual in Death. Death is result of Satan. The source of this Tree is Satan. Every one loves knowledge. Since our childhood we crave for knowledge. Knowledge is in our blood. We all know that the first couple Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. The result is death. Not physical death but the spirit which is the organ (as eye is the organ to see) to contain God’s spirit become deadened. Our Soul became ‘the Self’. And our body became the very ‘Flesh’. Oh! Just look to the damage caused by this Tree to mankind as a whole. This is serious. Did you ever noticed this before? The Man fell and the Mankind is fallen and corrupted with ‘SIN’ in us as our constitution.

Actually we are not in sin but the Sin is in us. This this a wonderful revelation we can see in Genesis. When I first saw this I was full of excitement. I said Wow! Let me share a little of it. Just look the distinction here. The versus is here between ‘Life’ verses ‘Good and Evil’. WOW! No where in the whole world, in any other written book so far you can see this. This is simply WOW! Amazing marvelous. Life is of God and the Good and Evil is of everything other than God Himself. Here Good is mentioned before Evil. This is important to see. Good is actually more dangerous to God’s purpose and Good is actually a bigger stumbling block to ‘God’s Life’. Evil is simply Evil. But Good is also Good-Evil. A Good Satan and a Evil Satan. But both are SATAN. Both are death at end. The Source to both Good and Evil is the same -the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Or we can say, the Tree of Death. Nowhere in the whole wisdom of this world you can see this distinction. Everyone is drawing, sketching between Good and Evil. But Praise God that the Book of Genesis shows us that it is actually not between Good and Evil but between ‘Life’ and ‘Good and Evil’ together. The Man focuses on Good verses Evil. But God’s interest is on ‘God’s Life’ verses Good and Evil’. Do you see this Chetan? It is not a matter of Right or Wrong, Right verses Wrong. It is also not a matter of Good verses Evil, Good or Evil. But by simply speaking, in Genesis it is between God’s Life verses everything else which not God Himself. It is Eternal Living Life verses everything else! I am very much glad to tell you this. May you see this picture! Amen!

The Good and Evil operates on Man day and night. The Life of God has no trace in Man. Life is inward. Life is an inward matter. However Good and Evil outward. Life is within. Good and Evil without. It is actually ‘Sin’ in us that makes us slave to SIN and the principle of Good and Evil. However there is a Hope. We thank God that we have a book, the Book of Genesis. Genesis means starting and Creation and beginning. All the beginning which your mind can tell you has a seed in this very Book. This book is simply wonderful. I just touched the first three chapters of Genesis. I hope this much is enough to make you feel to read Genesis. And I believe eventually you will fell in love with it. Amen!

Now let us consider the Gospel of John. The gospel of John is the last Gospel written about Jesus Christ. It was written in about AD 90. This book too, like Genesis has a wonderful beginning. The book begins saying,

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” – John 1:1 and “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” -John 1:5. Wow, what a profound beginning!

The Gospel of John has a wonderful History. First the three Gospel came with the all most similar narration. Initially (AD 30-AD 67) the believers heard and believed into ‘Christ’ just by hearing the word of mouth about Jesus Christ. What they heard and what they believed, you might be little confused about this? What is actually the Gospel? And above all who really Jesus is? All these questions will be answered by the Gospel of John! Then came a time when there were many- many believers in Christ. Soon the Gospel spread to whole of the Asia minor, North Africa, Arabia and to all Greek land and dominion. While the eye-witnesses were proclaiming the truth by the word of their testimonies about the Resurrection of Christ Lord Jesus, there was a urgent need for the written account of all the things accomplished through and in Jesus Christ.

Let me rephrase the above point. First of all, we need to see that the Holy Spirit (God Himself, since God is Spirit and God alone is Holy) is behind every Book of the Bible. It is actually the Work and inspiration of the Spirit that the Gospel of John came through Apostle John. Look Chetan! The God, as a Personal God loves us and directs us in everything. On the other hand God being impersonal and impartial does not make us Robots. He is the Authority. He is the Creator. He is behind all and in all. Everything is through Him. Fine, but what I mean that the words in the Gospel of John are of-course the revelation of the Holy Spirit, while on the other hand the author (here Apostle John) is nevertheless is independent in his expression and feelings, and requirement. Oh this is marvelous! And this is also little complicated for you. I believe that I have made it clearer here.

I give you an another example. Simply saying the Book, Genesis and the Book, the Gospel of John are the breath of God. They are the written Word of God. God is the original author. Since Man is the center of God’s plan, so God works through Man and with Man. God is the real author but the hand is of Moses and John. The ink is their living faith. While what is being written is God Himself but the writing is of Moses and John. The shape and size is of God and God Himself again but the boundary is being drawn be the Moses and John. In God there is Freedom and Life. God is the unique Content and the sole authority of both books but then nevertheless each author is having his own unique expression and writing. Do you see this, Chetan? Are you getting it now? Simply Praise God if you got it, otherwise God bless you!! However, this is important and worthwhile to mention.

“The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, yet the world knew Him not. He came to His own home, and His own people received Him not. But to all who received Him, who believed in His name, He gave power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. -John 1:9-13

Mysterious Christ, Savior mine,
Manifested God among men.
God infinite, in eternity,
Yet man in time, finite to be;
O Christ, who is God’s embodiment,
God is mingled with man—what good news!
As God yet man, He would enter us
To be our portion blessed.

The Gospel of John did not came merely to present the Truth in written for the multitude of believers unlike the other three previous Gospel (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) but to complete the Gospel. Again I must repeat, actually all the Books came in accordance to Will of God and in its own pre-destinated time however John wrote the last Gospel in accordance with the completion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. John presents a wonderful ‘Life’. This wonderful Life is a Living Person, Jesus Himself. Wow! John presents Jesus as the One who is All in All, the All-Inclusive Christ, Son of God. Amen.

So the major question is what does the Chetan have in the Gospel of John? What portion is for Chetan, who has by no means any portion in Jesus or who He was? In truly speaking who has no portion in Truth and Spirit of reality. This may seem true and at the same time hard to you. But is not this true? If this is true, we go further.

We saw that Genesis records a History which we can not find at any other place. We may find in parts but then that too, distributed and dislocated in various books, source and places. I mean, for example if you want to study that when Idol Worship originated? When Man built the first temple? Then you have two choices. First is that you go to the Book of Genesis and turn to the Chapter six and eleven and start reading. On the other hand, the second choice is that you go to Google, Yahoo search, go to book stores, buy multitudes of books and then visit and tour many countries and read their myths and stories. Then finally try to make a conclusion. In reality today Man is torn out between these two choices. But I suggest before going to Google search or Yahoo search one must read Genesis and then all the reading, studying and searching will make real sense and true sequence. Do you see this, Chetan? This is true and I do mean it.

But one can not get the whole picture just out of the History of Man. One can not see the blossoming tree just out of a seed. Do you remember that Genesis has the seeds for all the other Books. So to see a blossoming, full grown, life enriching plant you need to turn to a full grown tree. You need to come to the Gospel of John. The reading has no sequence (that first Genesis, second John) but what is important that both the books must be read. Anyone can be read first. But to you I suggest Gospel of John will be a wonderful beginning. Afterward you can read Genesis. Since no on e goes to work, empty stomach. You need some strength, right. Similarly until one has true faith, God will be not having any importance in our lives. So you need some initial boost, something to press-on! Something we call solid Living faith. Am I right?

I believe that you have a nice mind but a rocky heart. I do believe that your eyesight is also improper. Your ears are week and dumbness have made you paralyzed. Your legs are week and your hands are whithered. The skin of your flesh is too thin and the blood is dark black. Hey don’t get panic dear brother, actually thats the natural situation of all Men. Look dear: our heart is rocky since we do not know what Love is and in our own strength and best capability, what we can offer best is Life-less, Love-less love. We do not have any natural inclination towards self-less Love. That’s very simple. Similarly we are short-sighted and blind because we can-not see the Spirit, God’s Life, and Most Important to God. We are even that badly blinded by ‘Satan’ and ‘Lie’ that we can not comprehend God by even looking to this illogical, unreasonable, in-explainable, science-defying vast Infinite Creation! Chetan: do you see this now?

And we are dumb and deaf because neither we can hear God, our own spirit, our conscience, and to God’s calling and even to the crying of this letter nor do we have the lips and tongue to shout to the Lord, Praise God, ask questions, be honest to ones dead situation and finally to humble ourselves before God declaring that we are not gods but You are the Father God, the very Creator God: So have Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Lord! Amen.

And your legs are week just like any other natural born Human Being because we can not leave our standing to follow God, we can’t walk across the river to declare the Wonderful testimony of Wonderful God! We’ll not follow the Lord, we can not stretch our Love and Hands to others and finally our feet will rise but to only Anti-God! What ever our legs covered are for Satan, for self and for the Great Lie which is from the beginning. Our hands are whithered because we are paralyzed by the Sin since our birth, our hands can do only Good and Evil but nothing of God has any share in our natural hands. Our hands are actually whithered because we can not serve God with our hands, and most crucial that we don’t want to serve God with our hands, the whithered hands. Even He won’t except your jobs (offering, works) from your whithered hands. Do you see this Chetan? Oh! This is important.

Your skin is of flesh that is of Satan but even worst that is too thin to accept anything: Dirty movies, plays, and songs, Human Philosophy and Knowledge, the same Knowledge which is actually in against with God’s Life Giving Spirit and Choice. Ah! What a curse? Do you see that the whole world is actually nothing more than dirty movies, plays and songs. And our and yours skin is very thin to resist that! This is really pitiful. Shame for Man whom God Originally Created, with His own Life. May the Lord have mercy on us! O God, burn, burn in us, until there remains but only ashes! Burn, Burn, O Lord, Burn, burn O Lord; I am ready for this burning! True. Isn’t this wonderful to see our actual condition? Do you see this?

Finally Our blood is Dark Black because we all are born of Vipers. In one sense we are born of our natural dear Father and sweet Mother but on another sense (and in truly speaking in the Light of God,) we are actually born of Vipers. Since there is no trace of ‘God’s Life’ in the human flesh of which we are born of, we are actually condemned to death. We are not in sins but firstly Sin is in us. Our very blood is ‘Dark Sin’ and our composition is of Sin. Have you encountered this within you? I believe we all do encounter this very fact within us! We are in-capable of Loving God, we are in-capable of being Holy, we are far bellow the Righteousness, we don’t even want them, even to talk about them. This represents the very proof of this divine Fact. Do you truly enjoy God? Do you truly feel close to God’s Love and Life, and Light? Do you see the riches of God covering everything of yours? No! In no ways! Am I Right? Actually Chetan, we are like this and need His mercy and divine enabling! All these are in the Gospel of John with full of abundance, overflowing and many other riches. The Lord Jesus Himself is the unsearchable riches. May you taste of His riches in the Gospel of John! Amen.

God made man a vessel he
with a spirit, soul, body.
God to man his content be
that through man His Glory see

Man without Christ will perceive
that all things are vanity!
Human life is meaningless
without hope or purpose!

But when man takes Christ as Life,
He’s in spirit born anew.
When he daily lives by Christ,
Vanity is turned to song!

When in Glory Christ returns
Glorified our body be
To His Glorious Body conformed
With Him for Eternity.

Finally before concluding this small letter to you, O dear love, I would like to present my last burden for this sharing. In the Gospel of John we see that: Messiah is a Hebrew word; Christ is the Greek translation. Both actually men the ‘anointed’. Christ is God’s Anointed, the One appointed by God to accomplish God’s purpose, God’s eternal plan. Jesus (Yeshuwa in Original Aramaic), the Father’s only begotten Son declared God by the Word, Life, Light, Grace, and Reality. The Word is God expressed, Life is God imparted, Light is God shining, Grace is God enjoyed, and finally Reality is God realized, apprehended. God is fully declared in the Son through these five things. Amen! Is not this wonderful? Wow. This is simply Wow!! Also in the Gospel of John you will see two great divine revelation and enjoyment: A) The Eternal Word incarnated coming to ‘bring God into Man’. (John 1:1 to 13:38). B) ‘Jesus crucified’ and ‘Christ Resurrected’ going to prepare the Way to ‘bring Man into God‘, and as the Spirit coming to abide and live in the believers for the building of God’s habitation. (John, rest of it). Wow! Jesus crucified while Christ Resurrected. Bring God into Man and bring Man into God. Wow!! Do you see this Chetan?

Now to conclude I humbly want to share with you, my heart’s most precious song:

See, Father, Thy beloved Son,

Whom here we now present to Thee;

The All Sufficient Sacrifice,

The Sinner’s One and Only plea!

The Sinner’s One and Only plea!

Through Him we pray for all we love,

For all by pain or Sin oppressed;

For souls departed in Thy fear:

O grant them Eternal Rest!

O grant them Eternal Rest!

And we saw that reading is important. God is important. Life is important. Our reading should be for Truth and Life; a purposeful reading. A reading not just for knowledge but for something higher, that is to gain God’s Life and God’s heart purpose. And both the Books, Genesis and the Gospel of John presents a wonderful picture of Faith, God and Truth. I Genesis we saw the History of Man, Reality and Truths and God’s History with Man. In the Gospel of John we saw, God’s testimony to man, Man’s restoration to God, and finally the building of God. Finally, God will gain His purpose through Man and Man will express God in Life, Likeness, and Nature throughout whole eternity, mingled with Him as One Spirit, One Body in Christ.

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1 All the Bible Verses are from the ASV (American Standard Version) and RV (Recovery Version).

The Hymns and songs here are used from Hymn books and uncopyrighted Christian Internet sources.

The words are my specific burden in my conscience for you regarding the book of Genesis and John.

The above letter has not been revised by me. All grammatical and spelling mistakes and errors are unintentional. Especially the Articles.

I heartily welcome any communication from your side. May you show up the germination of Divine Life.

I believe that this letter of mine is clear in expression and motto to you. And I do believe that you have and you will have the deep interest in reading, especially a burden for Genesis and the Gospel of John.

At last, I must ask forgiveness and pardon from you if by any mean I hurt your sentiments and feelings.

Finally, God Loves you and so do I.

NARAYAN VAMAN TILAK

(1862 – 1919)

• A lover of Christ in India

Narayan Vaman Tilak was born at Karazgon in Bombay district in 1862. He belonged to a family of Chitpavan Brahmins and his father, Vamana Rao was a government registrar. His mother Janaki Bai, was a pious woman of poetic temperament, and she along with her father, who lived as a shadhu in the evening of his life, was the early influence on Narayan.

Tilak wrote of his mother, Janaki Bai, “My mother, I do not know how, was a woman of faith and love. Though she never talked to us of Christ, yet she taught us to fear God, and love all.” The deep personal devotion for God that marks so much of popular Hinduism was clearly evident in Jankibai and her father.

Through his life and writings, Tilak made a massive impact on the life of Marathi people in the early part of this century. His poems and hymns have been acclaimed by all, and it was through his literary work especially that he left his mark. His overwhelming emphasizes in both the Hindu and Christian phases of his life were on the realm of spiritual and eternal.

When he left school he got married, but leaving his wife at her home he spent the next few years of his life as a wanderer, living by his speeches and songs in different places and working as teacher in various schools. Tilak later began a settled home-life with his wife and children and became an editor of the Vedic Literature, beginning to study the Hindus sastras more deeply. He studied the Bhakti literature of Maharastra to learn more about India’s cultural and religious heritage. This was also the time when he became actively interested in the political awakening in Maharastra and began to think of the future of India as a nation.

In 1883 Tilak received a Bible from a European traveling companion. For months he carefully read and studied the words of Jesus, commenting that “My mind is being drawn towards the faith in Christ. Here appears a faith capable of giving the mind of man, peace, devotion, righteousness, [and] Salvation.”*

Tilak developed a love for his country in his school days that he kept throughout his life. He mentioned in his ‘Will’ that he loved his country more than any other, and he worked for the development of his nation. He said that a Christian has to be a lover of his country and wrote several poems expressing that love. In the poem ‘My Motherland’ he wrote that his love for his country influenced him to follow Christ.

Too often the Indian Churches (of his time), influenced by the West (and not by Christ Himself) have a foreign appearance. Tilak insisted that the Indian Church should become truly Indian in character by introducing Indian forms of music, worship, and financial resources. He introduced the melodies of Indian devotional songs and wrote lyrics and Bhajans in Sanskrit and Marathi.

Tilak wrote both Marathi and Sanskrit poetry, but mostly the latter, his themes including children, flower, motherland, and devotional topics. Tilak wanted to give a historical expression to the larger Church as ‘a Universal family of God’ to be known as real friends of men and real patriots, through whom the world would gain once more a true vision of the Lord Jesus Christ. His desire was that Christ, who was originally oriental, might become oriental again, and Christianity might gradually lose its foreign religious aspect and become entirely spiritual.

He was a true child of God. In poetry he beautifully expressed his experiences of union with Christ:

“As lyre and the musician,

As thought and spoked word,

As rose and fragnat odors,

A flute and breath accord;

So deep the bond that binds me

To Christ my Lord!

As mother and her baby,

As traveler lost and guide,

As oil and flickering lamp flame,

Are each to each allied;

Life of my life, Christ bindeth

Me to His side!

As lake and streaming rainfall

As fish and water clear,

As sun and gladdening dayspring

In union close appear;

So Christ and I are holden

In bonds how dear!”

Editor’s Note:

Although our dear brother and lover of God was much in love with Christ, he still was in motherland, human based forms, and expectations. He was un-aware of the God’s New Testament Economy and regarding the unsearchable riches of Christ. As we can see from our dear brother’s life that he loved the Bible and Truths, and God did used him in an untold ways; however I would like to bring few crucial points to the readers:

1. We can see the life of a changed person just by the Gospel. Our dear brother was a true lover of Christ yet he was in the Gospels.

2. He clearly understood the Church as the one big family of God which is un-separate from God but he was still not in the vision of the Body of Christ, the New man, the Bride and the corporate expression of God-man,…

3. Our dear brother still never experienced the all inclusive Christ, Christ all in all, the Mingled Spirit, the reality of the Body of Christ, God’s heart purpose, … in short once again I will bring the point- Actually what I mean by saying all these is that, ‘if a person’s life can be gained for God in this way just by the Gospel, how much one can be useful in God’s hands by going further unto the writing of Apostle Paul and John.

May you understand me in my motive of writing this Note.

Love

New Believers Series: II

Why Jesus’ Disciples Were
Willing to Die

What compelled the 12 apostles to endure persecution and martyrdom?

Three days after being crucified and buried, Jesus was missing from his burial tomb. The tomb is still empty! John witnesses the Jesus’ words on Cross. The 12 Apostles witnessed Christ rose from dead. They witnessed the direct work of God. Perhaps that’s why they were willing to die and to be long suffered.

And theirs wasn’t a mass suicide, where they bonded together in some delusional facade. Each of the 12 apostles left family and jobs, traveling to distant countries, preaching that Jesus died and came back to life. The 12 disciples chose to die prematurely for something they knew as under the new creation and for Christ Jesus!!!

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his soul-life shall lose it; but whoever loses his soul-life for My sake shall find it.”

Matthew 16:24-25 (Bible, N.T)

What do make sense are the historical facts. Even while being tortured, Jesus’ disciples insisted that they, as well as hundreds of other Jews, had seen Jesus alive. When some were arrested and ordered not to speak about Jesus’ Resurrection, they responded, “We cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard; the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

The 12 apostles and others knew Jesus had been beaten, whipped, and nailed to a cross, where he died in public display. A spear was thrust into his side to confirm his death. Roman soldiers were stationed at Jesus’ tomb, because Jesus had stated that three days after being crucified, he would rise from the dead. On that third day, the guards fled (God works in mysterious ways), the two-ton boulder sealing the tomb’s entrance was up a slope, and Jesus’ body was gone. Inside the tomb, the apostles Peter and John saw the burial cloths still lying there, empty.

After that, Jesus’ disciples saw him physically alive multiple times. They even had lengthy conversations with him and ate with him–all after his death by crucifixion. These 12 disciples went to their deaths proclaiming what they had no doubts about–that Jesus had risen from the dead, proving that he was everything he claimed to be…the Son of God.

What do you think??? You may not ever have to die for your belief in Jesus like the 12 apostles did, but you can become just as sure. To learn more about Jesus and the Resurrection, read the section called “John” in the Bible.

The Twelve Apostles:

1. Peter (Simon): Crucified upside down

2. Andrew: Was Crucified on X shaped cross

3. James, son of Zebedee: Beheaded

4. John: Exiled for his faith, died of old age [or perhaps been killed]

5. Philip: Crucified

6. Bartholomew: Beaten and then Crucified

7. Thomas: Speared to death in India

8. Matthew: Killed by an ax-head (halberd) to death

9. James, Son of Alphaeus: Stoned to death

10. Judas Thaddaeus (Jude): Stoned and crucified to death at Edessa.

11. Simon the Cananaean: Crucified

12. Matthias: Stoned and then beheaded (Chosen by other disciples to bring the number back to 12)

13. Judas Iscariot (the traitor): Betrayed Christ; Died of guilt

New Believers Series: The Twelve Apostles

The original twelve apostles may be considered, to be some of the most blessed people that ever lived. Often referred to simply as “The Twelve”, they were chosen by Jesus Christ Himself, and actually lived and worked with Him during His Gospel Life.

The names of ‘The Twelve’ are listed in 4 places in The Bible (Matthew 10:2-4, Mark 3:16-19, Luke 6:13-16, Acts 1:13) with some minor differences due to the various uses of first, family, or nicknames at different times.

Some have commented how wonderful it must have been to have been chosen as one of the Apostles, or to have been among the earliest of believers who actually saw and heard Jesus Christ in person. It certainly would have been a great honor and joy to have been among those pioneers of the true Church Life. They were expected to go out into the whole World and be an active witnesses of what they saw and heard. That was their purpose. That was their life. And that was their living.

The Bible does not record what happened to all of the Apostles; however there are other references also (for example “The Fox book of Martyrs”) along with the Bible, to their life activities and martyrdom. From these sources, a general consensus has been established among historians.

“The Twelve”

1. Peter [who was Simon]

Peter was reportedly crucified, upside down, during the reign of Emperor Nero.

2. Andrew [brother of Peter]

He was crucified on an X-shaped cross, two ends of which were in the ground. Hence the origin of the term, “St. Andrew’s Cross”.

3. James [the son of Zebedee; the brother of John]

James was “put to death with the sword” by King Herod (Acts 12:2). He was beheaded.

4. John [brother of James; the son of Zebedee]

John took care of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, after the Crucifixion (John 19:26-27). He went on to write the Book of Revelation while a prisoner on Patmos Island.. He may be the only apostle who escaped a violent death. However it is very likely that after he wrote the book of Revelation, while a prisoner of the Romans – he too may then have been killed.

5. Philip

Reportedly suffered martyrdom at Heliopolis, in Phrygia. He was severely flogged, imprisoned, and later crucified.

6. Bartholomew

He was one of the disciples to whom Jesus appeared at the Sea of Tiberias after His resurrection. He was also a witness of the Ascension. He traveled extensively throughout the world. Probably tortured and crucified in a distant land where he also translated the Gospel into that country’s native language.

7. Thomas

He was also called Didymus which is the Greek version of his name. Not easily convinced, he has the nickname “Doubting Thomas” because he wanted to actually see and touch Jesus after His Resurrection. Certainly a good witness for us today, because he wanted indisputable proof of what he was expected to report about, and he got it. Amen! Came to India and traveled and preached up to China. Eventually Martyred in India. Thomas was reportedly killed with a spear in Southern India.

8. Matthew

The former tax collector, he was killed with a halberd (a pike fitted with an ax head) in Nadabah.

9. James the son of Alphaeus

Stoned and clubbed to death in Jerusalem.

10. Judas Thaddaeus [Jude]

The brother of James often called Thaddeus. He was crucified at Edessa.

11. Simon the Zealot (the Cananaean)

He traveled widely, and is believed to have been crucified in what is today Britain.

12. Matthias

He was stoned, and then beheaded at Jerusalem. Chosen by other disciples to bring the number back to Twelve.

13. Judas Iscariot (The traitor)

Betrayed Christ; hanged himself on a tree, died of guilt.

“OTHERS”

1. John the Baptist

John the Baptist was beheaded by Herod. (Matthew 14:1-12)

2. Paul

Beheaded under Nero. “…the soldiers came and led him out of the city to the place of execution, where he, after his prayers made, gave his neck to the sword.”

3. Barnabas

Barnabas is believed to have been killed (perhaps beheaded) about 10 years after Paul.

4. Luke

Luke was the author of the Gospel which is called by his name, and also the Book of Acts. He was hanged in an olive tree in Greece.

5. Mark

Mark was reportedly torn to pieces by a mob in Alexandria after he told them that their god, a statue carved from stone, was worthless.

6. Stephen

The account of Stephen is very well documented in the Bible [Acts chapters 6 and 7]. He is generally regarded as the first Christian martyr. It has been estimated that about 2,000 Christians, along with Nicanor, one of the seven deacons (Acts 6:5), also suffered martyrdom during the great persecution that arose after Stephen (Acts 8:1).

7. James [the flesh brother of our Lord]

He was elected to the oversight of the churches of Jerusalem; and was the author of the Epistle ascribed to James in the sacred canon. At the age of ninety-four he was beaten and stoned by the Jews; and finally had his brains dashed out with a fuller’s club.

8. Timothy

Timothy died in A.D 97 due to the severe beatings from pagan worshipers during a religious festival after Timothy rebuked them.

How to Choose the Right University for You

God being First; brother Lee said: “A human being’s second responsibility is to shake hands with education,” Education and knowledge never end and the same holds true for one’s quest for higher education. But the question is ‘how to choose the right University?’ Right University, right education is important for you to be used by God effectively for your entire life. Just consider how consumers today face increasingly complicated levels of decision making, from choosing a vending machine snack to selecting a pair of athletic shoes to buying a new car. But choosing the right University is more important than few consumer choices – a decision that will affect your daily living during your college years and influence the rest of your life. Doesn’t it make sense to give it serious thought? Do consider this before the Lord! For some, this choice is easy. Maybe you were admitted early decision or have a clear first choice. For others, the decision is more difficult. Perhaps you have not visited many of the Universities on your list, maybe you and your parents disagree about what is best for your future, or perhaps you just can’t seem to figure out what you want. No matter the reason, you must decide by the June 15^th reply date. What should you do?

There are six considerable tips that I feel good and useful to all the young brothers and sisters those who have yet to make decision or can’t decide.

God and God’s Life: First of all we all need to see that God and God’s Life is the most important thing which we can enjoy in our daily life and we can share with our friends. No matter what you choose or which campus, today’s young people are filled with doubts and anxieties about their future. There is no hope in their human life. There is no meaning of Human Life. We must consider before the Lord that we can be His flaming testimony carrier and whichever course or campus we go, we must ‘fire’. Hallelujah that Arson is no crime. Burn and burn others in the sweetest Love of the Lord Jesus! At any campus we can save people and can stand on the ground of the Church. We can give our testimonies and we can gain many young people for the Lord! However this is minimal and we must consider that the Lord’s heart’s desire in gaining us is for something more. We must return our best in whatever we do for the Lord. So let us consider the other practical points concerning our University choice.

Expand your research:. Are you choosing between two university or several? Have you narrowed down your choices? Are you comparing financial aid packages? What are the factors that you will use to make your decision? Now that you know what your options are, it is time to begin or continue your research. Hopefully you already know why most of the universities are on your list. What are you looking for? What does each university offer? Consider how each university matches your interests: academic, extracurricular, social, and otherwise. Use the universities’ websites, talk to friends, e-mail professors, visit the campuses. I just mean do your best! Have discussions with your family and Church. If you have not already visited the campuses on your list, now is the time.

Prioritize: When choosing the best University, it is helpful to narrow your choices by deciding which of the Universities best fits your needs. The choice of the university, first of all, depends on what type of occupation you would like to acquire. If you select a private university, make sure that the selected study programme has been accredited and that the degree of the university is recognized at the state level. When you have clarified whether the intended study programme is accredited, you have to find out the duration of and the tuition fees for studies. The key aspect in making the choice is the quality of the studies: gather information on the reputation of the university and the professional level of academic staff there! Competitiveness in the labor market is important when making your choice.

Be honest with yourself: While many options can look good but most important we need to be honest with ourselves. For example, if I like small campuses and if I can get into a University of great reputation with its fees very high and the campus too crowded, then joining that University will be ‘not being honest’ with me. Moreover pray before the Lord that your choice should be honest to Him and you. It is important to remember that there are many factors that play into the decision of which university to attend. Going off to university often signifies the beginning of a more adult life, so this decision can be influenced by anxieties about leaving home. The anxieties should be left for Amen! Be honest anyway!

Go with your guts: We’ve been through the rational decision-making processes like making pro- and con- lists and prioritizing. However, intuition is often our best guide. Once you are decided, go for a kill. For instance as soon as I got in N.D.S.U (North Dakota State University), I got excited!! Somehow I just knew it would be the best place for me. Oh! What a privilege that I can be a burning testimony for the Lord in the North Dakota State University. Hallelujah! And I was right.” Pay attention to your gut. Trust the Lord God!

God is your shield: Here is the good news: there is no such thing as the wrong choice. Like any experience, college is what you make of it. Take advantage of opportunities, choose challenging classes, become involved in your interests (e.g. learning music for hymn composing), and your decision will prove to be the right one. Chances are that you will be happy at any of the universities on your list if you just understand the Lord’s Will a little more! After all, you applied to them because you discovered they were good matches for you. If you later find you would rather be somewhere else, you can always consider the transfer option. That’s perfectly fine! Hey the whole Universe is of Lord’s; and the Lord is yours! What else do you want to have. However most students are happy with the choice they made, and graduates often look back, saying: “I am glad I went where I did, but I think I would have been happy and successful at many other colleges, too. After all it’s God purpose to bring me up, shape me up through such nicely arranged environment! I am glad that I was a testimony in North Dakota State University and God gave me such privilege. Praise Him, God is Sovereign!!” Amen and Amen!!