Joy in God as a justified sinner...

Cross is the central focus for all mankind to fight for joy, and Christ’s death on the Cross is the price that purchases every gift that leads to that deep and lasting joy. Christ’s death on the Cross for the remission sins for mankind must be preached and Gospel must be preached and heralded. Even when true preaching is not available, God can meet our needs through the meditation of His Word, through family worship, through small groups where the Word is discussed and applied, through radio, television, internet, tapes, or CDs. God has called us to enjoy the blessings that comes through godly preachers, and preaching is one precious gift of God. There is tremendous joy among believers when we part take of the Lord’s Supper through the bread and the cup; “For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come” 1 Cori: 11:26. When we partake of the read and the cup we proclaim the death of Christ for our sins, for the forgiveness of sins, for the gift of righteousness, and the continued relationship with Christ and His father through the Spirit of adoption. Preaching God’s Word becomes a joy for a genuine believer, because it is ultimately for the glory of God. Lloyd- Jones, saw in Psalm 42, especially in verse 5, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance” that the Psalmist and the preacher of the Word, King David is preaching to himself, and that applies to all who preaches (believers), we must preach the Word to ourselves.

We should not surrender to the victim mentality, but had to defy ourselves from Satan, other people, and from ‘self’. This is war, and Lloyd Jones says, the main art of spiritual living is addressing yourself, preaching to ourselves, questioning ourselves, upbraid, condemn, exhort, and say to ourselves ‘hope in God’. We must constantly remind ourselves about who God is, and what He has done for us through His Son, rather than being downcast, and being depressed. Finally, it is only the Cross of Christ that can kill the joy killers in our lives.

When Christ became the substitute of sins for us, “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures” 1 Cori: 15:3, He became the substitute performer of our righteousness; “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous” Rom: 5:19; “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth” Rom:10:4; “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” 2 Cori 5:21. So the Doctrine of justification, has become our fight for our joy. It is faith alone, which sees the joy through justification; “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness” Rom: 4:4-5. One should not confuse between justification and sanctification, because that can kill the joy God has placed within us. Progressive change in believers into the image of God is not justification, and that is called sanctification; “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life” Rom:6:22. What is settled for our sins through the blood of Christ in twinkling of an eye is justification, and the moral progress goes forward in sanctification. Both are the gifts of God, and confusing them will undermine the Gospel, and turn justification by faith into justification by performance.

The effect of the Word of the Cross when one sees with the eyes of the heart, can touch anyone and we have both secular, historical, and Biblical records like John Bunyan, and prophet Micah. Micah’s guilt seems gutsy, because there was ‘reasonable’ accusations from self, Satan, and from the people around, and yet he was preaching about justification by faith. Prophet Micah lived outside of the governmental centers of power in his nation, and he has a strong concern for the lowly, less unfortunate in the society, the lame and the blind, and the outcasts, and the afflicted; “In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted” Mic: 4:6. Much of the book of Micah revolves around major two significant predictions: the judgment of Judah and Israel; Micah 1-3; and the other of the restoration of God’s people in the millennial Kingdom; Micah  4-5.  If Micah was living on this side of the Cross, he would have preached about God’s mercy, and the righteousness of Christ. In a nut shell, gutsy guilt is the opposite of cheap grace. Listening to the word of the Cross, preaching to ourselves becomes the main theme for sinners to fight for joy. The Cross, the joy, the sacrificial love all for the glory of God.   

References:

Piper, John. When I don’t desire God: How to fight for joy (Wheaton: IL, Crossway Books,2004).

The Matthew Henry Study Bible, King James version: The best of Matthew Henry’s Notes in a Handy One Volume Reference Bible, (Iowa Falls, U.S.A, World Bible Publishers, Inc; 1994).

Seeing Jesus through the eyes of our heart and mind- to fight for joy in God

There are ample Scriptures which talks about two different kinds of sight; eyes of the heart, and the eyes of the mind; Matt: 13:13; Eze: 12:2; Jer: 5:21.

Therefore, speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:  For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them; Mat 13:13-15.

Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house; Eze 12:2.

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Jer 5:21.

Seeing is essential because, God is glorified by being seen because this involves understanding, and God communicates in the hearts of people who can see. God’s glory is revealed in the nature; The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge” Ps 19:1-2.

Paul says, that the ‘invisible attributes of God in this Universe display God’s glory; For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so, that they are without excuse: Rom:1:20. When we look at God’s display of His glory from the minutest atom to the supernova, we clearly see the glory of God with much joy. It is our ungodliness and unrighteousness, whereby we suppress the truth; “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness”; Rom 1:18, and that becomes tragic. This joy killing blindness, the veil can be removed in the presence of Christ, which is through the good news of the Gospel. While Satan can do all that, he can to hinder us from enjoying that joy, when the light shines in our hearts, that gives the knowledge of the glory of God; But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ; 2 Cori:4:3-6.

God also reveals Himself through His Word, and the relationship between the Word and the glory of God is explained in Exodus 33-34; when Moses asked God in Mt. Sinai to show God’s glory to him. When we hear the Word of God, and when the hearing succeeds, we begin to see His glory, because it is written, Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the Word of God; Rom 10:17. Being enthralled in God’s glory brings ultimate joy to a believer, and is a special gift of God, and we are constantly being transformed in to His image and into His glory. Jesus expressed the love of Christ for His Disciples, in His final prayer in John 13. “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world”; Jn 17:24.  Seeing Jesus with the eyes of our heart is very much related to knowing Him; “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God” Eph:3:19. So, our challenge is, to fight to see and enjoy the glory of the ‘Risen Christ’.

References:

Piper, John. When I don’t desire God: How to fight for joy (Wheaton: IL, Crossway Books,2004).

The Matthew Henry Study Bible, King James version: The best of Matthew Henry’s Notes in a Handy One Volume Reference Bible, (Iowa Falls, U.S.A, World Bible Publishers, Inc; 1994).

Call to fight for joy in God is indeed a gift of God

Fighting for joy embracing the truth itself is a gift from God and His work is enabled by God within us. Joy is the fruit of the Spirit that grows on the tree of faith, Gal: 5:22, and not a wage that God should pay for our work or for our fight. We believers had to learn to fight against the weeds, the crows, and the rodents. The author warns against the blinding of Satan from seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in the Gospel which awakens joy; 2 Cori: 2:2. We will continue to fight for joy in a way that does not replace grace, and at the end of our lives we should be able to say that we have fought the good fight, and if the joy comes that indeed is a true gift. 

He Whose heart is kind beyond all measure Gives unto each day what He deems best— Lovingly, it’s part of pain and pleasure, Mingling toil with peace and rest- Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg (1832- 1903).

We have moved a hundred miles from Pilgrim’s Progress where Christian labors and struggles and fights all his life “for the joy that was set before him” (Heb. 12:2) in the Celestial City. - John Piper

This is both liberating and devastating because it is good news for the hopeless and bad news for the self-reliant. Sometimes people know intuitively that this delight in God is beyond their control and they believe what is beyond their control cannot be required and this could be partially right. The Word of God require us to delight in the Lord always; Phil 4:4; Ps: 32:4; 97: 12; 100:1; Joel: 2:23.

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say Rejoice (v. 4). All our joy must terminate in God; and our thoughts of God must be delightful thoughts. Delight Thyself in the Lord (Ps. 37:4) . . . . Observe, it is our duty and privilege to rejoice in God, and to rejoice in him always; always, in all conditions; even when we suffer for him, or are afflicted by him. We must not think the worse of him or of his ways for the hardships we meet with in his service. There is enough in God to furnish us with matter of joy in the worst circumstance on earth. . . . Joy in God is a duty of great consequence in the Christian life; and Christians need to be again and again called to it. - Matthew Henry

“The ordinary man may feel ashamed of doing wrong: but the saint, endowed with a superior refinement of moral sensibility, and keener powers of introspection, is ashamed of being the kind of man who is liable to do wrong.”- N. P. Williams

Ever since our fallenness in Genesis 3, we need not commit sins to be sinners, because sins power is deeply rooted within humanity, and on conversion the Holy Spirit gives the power to overcome the fallen, sinful nature. Prophet Jeramiah bemoans “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9). This proves that our hearts are deceitful, and we are disobedient, rebellious, and hardened towards the things of God ever since the Fall. King David traced this condition back to his birth: “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Ps. 51:5). This proves that inborn corruption is within us. When Paul mentions ‘flesh’ that means the natural self apart from the redemption of Christ, or the natural person.  1 Corinthians 2:14, “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned”. This means the natural person and the flesh agitates against the things of God, and such person cannot delight in God. The natural heart is so corrupt it cannot see or savor the beauty and the heart of God for that person. Paul says that the mind of the flesh is so hostile to God and it cannot and will not submit to the laws of God; Rom: 8:7-8. In other words, our own natural mind is so hostile to God’s glorious authority and cannot rejoice in God. ^“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit; Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”; Jn 3:6-7.  This means until the Spirit of God again bear us, all we are is flesh, and natural people with no spirit life, and we do not have any taste buds in the soul for the sweetness of Christ. The focus of this chapter is that the Spirit of God is free, and when one begins to see Jesus as our treasure, the Spirit has blown through our heart. Genuine repentance is a gift from God, and the central mystery of Christian life is, Christ has died for our sins, and because of his blood and righteousness we are forgiven and counted righteous by God in Christ; 2 Cori:5:21; Phil:3:9; Rom:5:19. The other part of the mystery is we are commanded to rejoice in the Lord, and this seems impossible, because of our willful and culpable corruption. So, obedience is a gift from God, and we are called to obey, so that we do not perish. Christian life is all about grace, and God continues to supply the strength to serve and believing that joy is in God, is a huge gift from God.

References:

Piper, John. When I don’t desire God: How to fight for joy (Wheaton: IL, Crossway Books,2004).

The Matthew Henry Study Bible, King James version: The best of Matthew Henry’s Notes in a Handy One Volume Reference Bible, (Iowa Falls, U.S.A, World Bible Publishers, Inc; 1994).

What is the difference between desiring and delighting in God?

^“Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.  My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever”; Psa: 73: 25-26. Asaph, the God entranced Psalmist has a great desire for God, and this desire is so strong and that makes all other things nothing. King David expresses his desire for God with the image of a deer panting for water; As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God; Psa:42:1.Apostle Paul in his letter to Philippians expresses his desire for God in the following way; “My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. . . . Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake, I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ” (Phil. 1:23; 3:7-8).

Delighting in God or rejoicing in God is found in Psalms and other books both in the Old Testament and New Testament.  Habakkuk delights in the Lord, “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation;” Hab: 3:17-18.

So we have both the desire and the delight; desiring, yearning, craving, longing, and the joy is the delight, pleasure happiness or satisfaction. There is always more in God to enjoy, because God is infinite, perfect in holiness. God is more glorified when we find satisfaction in Him alone. Love for God and faith goes together to find joy in God and faith in Jesus involves delighting in Him. Once we begin to delight in Jesus, a believing heart cannot forsake Christ for the broken cisterns of the world. In our Western Churches the last two hundred years there was incredible devaluation of the fight for joy because the truth of the Gospel is little understood. Christian life was understood as an earnest warfare from beginning to end, and the fruit bearing fields of joy in God was defended and strengthened throughout. Paul’s ministry was working for the joy of Christ for people, and maintaining joy needs work, because one had to fight against every impulse for alien joy which is apart from Christ. In Phil: 1:25, he says that he is wrestling with two competing desires: one to be with Christ, and the other to stay and minister to the churches.

References:

1. The Matthew Henry Study Bible, King James version: The best of Matthew Henry’s Notes in a Handy One Volume Reference Bible (Iowa Falls, U.S. A, World Bible Publishers, Inc; 1994). 

2. John Piper, When I don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Publisher, 2004).

What do we understand by 'Sustaining the Sacrifice of Love'

Here we are talking about the liberating discovery of pursuing joy in God which is also a devastating discovery. This is because our indwelling sin, opposes and perverts the pursuit of God and stands in our way of our full satisfaction in God. In fallenness, our pursuit of the things of the world are more desirable than God, and this perverts our thinking that we are pursuing God, which is devastating and makes the Christian living impossible. Now the hope for Christian living is found only in God, because He alone can make the depraved heart desire for God. The apostle Paul said, “If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed” (1 Cor. 16:22); Christ must be cherished in our hearts, sustaining the sacrificial love of Christ with all of our hearts, mind, soul and in our strength. When we see trials and persecutions of Christians around the world, what do we do as Western Christians? “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you” (1 Pet. 4:12). “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance” (Rom. 5:3). “Blessed are you when others . . . persecute you. . . . Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven” (Matt. 5:11-12). Fighting for joy is not to reduce the Western comforts, but is a fight to join Jesus on the Calvary road and stay with him no matter what our situations, and trials may be and looking at Jesus and the joy that was set before him and enduring the cross. The aim is not to salve the conscience of the well to do Western acquisition, but to sustain love’s ability to endure the worse, and that is may be to endure the sacrificial losses of property and security in life, by the power of joy in the path of love. Through this the aim is to make known to the world that Jesus Christ is all powerful, all wise, all merciful, all righteous, and the most satisfying treasure of the whole Universe which God has created. “Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come” (Heb. 13:13-14).

They are discovering that there is nothing new about Christian Hedonism at all, but that it is simple, old-fashioned, historic, biblical, radical Christian living. – John Piper    

Piper, John. When I don’t desire God: How to fight for joy (Wheaton: IL, Crossway Books,2004).

Complete in Thee …….

Sin affects all of us in all areas of our life and total depravity affects us mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Ever since fall, inherent sin affects manhood and we are constantly battling in the lust of the yes, the lust of flesh and with the pride of life. Genesis 3: 1-8, speaks about the Fall of man, and it is so dramatic, that our parents hid themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden, because they knew they were naked.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

The effects of the Fall are narrated in the remaining chapter of Genesis 3.

Biblical references: Gen 3:1-8 (How sin entered in); Matt: 4 (Jesus was tempted: lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life), Rom:6(Dead to sin and alive to God).

What is the moral decision about sin?
What do we understand about the moral decision we make about sin? It does take some time and some thinking to come to that position that the sin in us as fallen people must be killed and we must come to the humble acknowledgement that we are sinful. No one can bring anyone else to this humble position, except the Lord Jesus Christ who took the sin of the whole humanity on the cross when He was crucified. If I may call it, co- crucifixion, that is our sinful nature is being crucified with Christ and though we are religiously motivated and earnestly convinced to do this, the work is of the Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit. This work, the amazing work of God, for any person, who want to come to this moral decision about sin, is freely available by the redemptive power of Christ, and no flesh can do it on their own, because the glory belongs to God alone, and He does not want any flesh to glory, in His redemptive work which was done on Calvary through His Son.

How do we do this?
Take a simple analysis of our heart, and let us identify ourselves with the death of Christ on the cross, and acknowledge that our sin is dead on the cross with Jesus; lust of the flesh, the lust of eyes, and the pride of life....the sin which affects humanity in all areas of our life. Ask the help of the Holy Spirit to invade us, our hearts, the possible areas where sin can lurk, and have the Divine anticipation that God is able to help us when we earnestly seek Him while making the moral decision about sin. In a nut shell I would like to say, anything rising within us which could exalt itself against the knowledge of God. Then we can agree with God's verdict through His Word that disposition of sin, and make a moral decision about sin, "dead indeed unto sin" “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  For he that is dead is freed from sin”; Rom:6:6-7.
This indeed is a glorious privilege for all of us, to be crucified with Christ, and we begin to understand in our life on this part of eternity “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”; Gal 2:20.

What do we understand regarding 'Moral Divinity'?
“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection”: Rom 6:5.
The proof that we have been crucified with Christ will be revealed in our life, that we live on this earth. We will have a decided likeness to Him, and our personal life, will reflect the beauty of Christ in all areas and this can be called as Co-resurrection. This means the life I live, will be one like that of the likeness of the Son of God, on this earth, because the resurrection of the Son of God has imparted that authority in my mortal flesh. This new life in Christ will show itself in holiness, and the resurrection life of Jesus invades us in every part of our personal, professional, community and spiritual lives. The work of the Holy Spirit invades us in all areas of our lives, because He is not a guest, in our life, and He changes our old man and the heredity of sin. We begin to operate in a new order, because the gift of God is parted within us, and this will lead us in the path of holiness and purity of God's Son.

What do we understand by the Moral Dominion?
“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord;” Rom:6: 9-11.
In this section I would like to talk about the Co-eternal life, the eternal life with Jesus which is the gift of God. In other words once we make the moral decision on sin, the enabling power of the Holy Spirit will help us in our weaknesses, and live a godly life, pleasing God. The full life of God begin to operate within us, and that we may be filled with the fullness of God. Eternal life means living life with God, and this has nothing to do with time, and this is the life Jesus lived while He was living with us. Even the weakest of all saints can experience this power of the Deity of the Son of God once he /she is willing to let go of any strand of their own energy and will that will blur the life of Jesus. Slowly but surely when our will is replaced by His Divine will, and when our energy is replaced by the power of the Holy Spirit, God can invade every part of us. The beautiful thing which could happen when this replacement slowly happens would be that men will know that Jesus is with us and our hearts will reflect the heart of Jesus and this will draw many men towards that Divine love!

Who can fathom fully?

When I walked the steps of Jesus recently in Jerusalem and Galilee and Bethlehem, and especially when I walked the path of Jesus during his passion week my mind constantly thought about the trials and persecutions of Jesus. When I walked through the different stations of the Cross via Dolorosa Jerusalem I thought about the three Falls of Jesus: at station three, station seven and station nine. The Fall was beyond what Jesus could carry at that time and his body was weak, and He was mentally and physically exhausted and He needed help. The greatest mental agony of Jesus could be the initial separation from His Father, carrying the whole burden of the sins of world, and being persecuted, beaten, heavily interrogated by the leaders both in the religious and secular circles for trying to fulfill what His Father in Heaven had for Him. I could sit on this topic for days, because this whole scene is beyond me to comprehend and I cannot fathom why Jesus had to do this for me and for the whole humanity! Isn’t there any other way of redeeming the humanity? I can try to understand the immense love of God the Father for humanity, and still this love of God is beyond me and unexplainable. Yes, the Word of God says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”; Jn 3:16. Yes, God’s Word is the ultimate truth, but my comprehension of trying to fathom God’s love in giving His Only Son Jesus Christ seem to be partial and a mystery. In my comprehension, this seem to be an ‘unscalable mystery’.

Here I am trying to understand God and His natural attributes. God is not a fearful celestial policeman nor a sentimental grandfather in the sky, nor He is a ball of consuming fire. The natural attributes of God revealed by His self-disclosure of Scripture says, God is all powerful, transcendent who excels above all and He is exalted and eternal and the world’s Creator, who is Sovereign and the Perfect Judge. God is immanent and near as well as transcendent and He is Omnipotent, who is all powerful, Omnipresent who is in all places at all time, and Omniscient who knows all things. God never had a beginning and has no end, and He is God Eternal, timeless. God is infinite and unlimited and he is unchangeable against injustice, cruelty or deceit and yet He is love. I cannot even fully wrap my mind adequately to conceive of the infinite quantity of space, creation, the vastness of the Universe, the billions of stars in the galaxies, and the times and the change of seasons. Time and again, I come to the humble adoration of God and His characteristic attributes and acknowledge that God’s power, Omni potency is at work and in control of everything, anywhere at work. His Holiness has no limitations and no defects and yet He is a very personal God and created me in His own image after His own likeness;  ^“ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth”; Gen: 1:26. This is an awesome ‘unscalable mystery’ to me.

Time and again when I faced the ‘unscalables’ in my life, the only ‘Fount of Love’ who understands me completely was God, through His Son and His Spirit because He suffered the most, the mental, emotional and physical agony while he was on this earth so He can empathize and sympathize with my whole situation. There are no impossibilities for our Triune God, who is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent. I acknowledge that God can take me ‘my unscalables’ to the end of the tunnel because His Word says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not”; Jer:33:3. I can also say that God can take anyone by giving His answers to prayer which is beyond the realm of reason, Science, and knowledge. No one can fully fathom the depth, the beauty and dimension of the answer from God because it is so special for that person who calls upon Him. Indeed, God is near to the broken hearted when one faces the ‘unscalable’ and there is absolutely nothing which is ‘unscalable’ to Him.