Don't find love...

Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall.Once you accept someone for who and what they really are, they will surprise you by being better than you ever expected. LOVE is loving/accepting a person with all his/her strength and weaknesses.Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.When two friends fall in love they learn they are meant for each other. When they fall out of love they realize they want to keep each other forever.Find time to realize that there is one person who mean so much to you, for you might wake up one morning losing that person who you thought meant nothing to you.Love is seeing yourself through someone's eyes and finding yourself in somebody's heart.Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever.A ball is a circle, no beginning, no end. It keeps us together like your circle of friends. But the treasure inside, for you to see, is the treasure of friendship you've given to me.Letting go has never been easy and holding on can be as difficult. Yet strengths measured not by holding on but by letting go.True LOVE doesn't have a happy ending, that's because true love doesn't have an ending.Men vs. women: Men would rather sacrifice love to conquer the world. Women would rather give up the world just to be with someone worth the sacrifice.Decision should not be the choice of your heart or mind but sensible balancing of both.Some thoughts are better left unsaid, some feelings are better left kept to yourself, but love has it's way of expressing itself despite the silence.The happier the memory, the deeper it hurts.There are so many stars in the sky only some are radiant enough to be noticed. Among those you choose to ignore is the one which was willing to shine for you forever even if your glance remained elsewhere.It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy with someone else... but it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

CHRISTIAN FAMILIES: THE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CHURCH

What is a home? The home is a little society, a community formed by people living together. The way we run our home will determine whether there will be peace, love, and fidelity or not. Families that are established on the precepts of the Bible act as a strong foundation for the church.

Many homes just exist as a lodging place rather than a place to live. There is no time for fellowship, family altar or Christian instruction. No learning opportunity for family members, no growth in grace, no prevailing prayers and faith. In each home, we need spiritual reformation. The home will be in a chaotic and restless condition if the parents and kids are pulling and going in different directions. God is God of unity and He wants unity of purpose, firmness offaith, confidence and courage. God our heavenly Father wants all the members of the family to stand shoulder to shoulder in the fear of the Lord.

God’s purpose in the beginning was to have the family established in love, harmony and security. Although it is not always smooth going, we can always be victorious and avoid many heartaches by doing things God’s way. Love is the power that keeps the family chariot in the divinely appointed path. Love helps the flame of peace and joy to leap higher in the family.

Let us consider three areas of aspects of love: -

a) The Tender Love Of The WifeMany times there are preachers who say love is only commanded of the husband as stated in Eph 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.” Yes, that is right but they do not realize that love is also demanded of the wives. A tender feminine kind of love that befits a Christian woman should be manifested in the family. (Titus 2:4-5) states: “That they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to lovetheir children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”

The Bible says that the teacher i.e. the aged woman should teach the younger women to be sober and to love their husbands. Aged women, by virtue of their spiritual life, by virtue of their walk and experience with God and standing with God should teach the younger women who are just getting married what they have known, what they have discovered, learnt from life’s lesson and gone through.

In Eph 5:22, “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” The Christian woman already knows what it means to submit and the Christian man equally knows what it means to love. At the point of salvation both have learnt to surrender to the Lord. There are many men but you have this man in particular to submit to, and there are many women but you have this particular woman to love. Therefore, love and submission demands mutual respect.

We love and submit to Christ Jesus because we know that He is God’s Son. We know His titles, His qualities and characteristics. We know that all judgement is in His hands and we know that He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. So because of the respect and the honour we have for Him, we must submit to Him. While we were unbelievers we did not submit to Him because of ignorance, we did not know Him as such.

The moment you realize that you ought to honour and respect your spouse, you ought to stop looking out for his / her fault. If you are engrossed in looking at his / her faults or exaggerating his / her faults and failings, you will be making reconciliation and restoration difficult. Please take away your eyes from the negatives and begin to look at the positive contribution that your spouse has made thus far to the family. Wives hear this: the authority of your husband over you must be greater than the authority of all other men. Husbands hear this: your love and protection upon your wife must be greater than the love and protection upon anyone else, your mother included.

Beloved Christian couple, live exemplary lives and let Jesus Christ be the centre pillar of your home in Jesus’ name, Amen!

To be continued…

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.