Would You Lord?

Would You Lord?

Lord, the pleasure of this world

Darkened my mind, and I am dumb and blind

I lost my strength searching the joy in false things

Would you show your light and truth?

Lord, the attractions of this world

Captures my mind everyday;

I get lured by the false beauty I see around

Lord would you show me the beauty of your holiness?

Lord, I can see idolizing self all around,

And I get myself involved with this trend;

Lord I know I should offer myself as a living sacrifice,

Lord would you teach me how to?

Lord, the world complicates the things

That you created so plain and simple

The worldly philosophies and theories confuses me

Would you give me the wisdom to discern right from the wrongs?

Lord, I know I can have no peace

With the things that I can acquire here

I know the peace flows from you

Would you connect me with you?

Lord, I know nothing good lives in me

I am carnal; nothing I do can get me salvation

Would you still accept me with my sinfulness…

And clean me with your blood?

Now Oh Lord, I am convinced…

That you are able to save me and lead me home

Would you train me with your love?

To depend on you and give you everything I have?

By

LPM

Confession

On Your Holy Mountain, before the prophet Moses;

You inscribed on the tablets of stone;

“Thou shall not have any other gods before me”

Yet there are thousand gods before us,

Lord, won’t you forgive us for such misdeeds?

You wrote with your own finger tips,

“Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy”

But we, these inhabitants of your created world;

Mocked you and made your Sabbath Unholy

With our man made customs and traditions;

Lord, won’t you give us another chance to change?

I know, I believed that you can do all things;

I know, I learned that you can forgive all sins;

I heard they speak, by faith in you we shall live;

So Lord, forgive us all, as you know we often fall;

And give us burning desire and hope of your soon coming;

Leading at the foot of your cross for contrite confession.

By Litton Prosad Mowalie

The Separation Motif in the Bible...A Powerful Sermon

I was so much enriched today with a powerful message that was given by Dr. Nam on Seperation Motif Presented in the Bible.

The speaker hails from South Korea and was a graduation ceremony speaker at BASC, Goalbathan, Bangladesh. He was well versed with his message and it seemed to be that He was a scholar in the old testament teaching as well as new Testament teaching of Holy Bible.

He brought out the fact of how the Bible presents the Separation Motif of God. He pointed out clearly verse by verse how God presented this separation motif in creation week, setting the Sabbath Day, in letting the first humans know not to eat the fruit of forbidden tree. The speaker went ahead with his focus from Genesis to Exodus, and pointed this motif in the Ten Plague that was set for the Egyptian and How this motif distinguished the people of God and the Egyptians. It was also pointed out in Ten Commandments. In the book of Leviticus the Separation Motif was upholded in the Temple Service where God separated Levites and priests for Temple service.
The book of Leviticus also talks about Clean and Unclean Food , in these issues too separation motif is presented

The speaker also talked about the Violators of God's Command and their results. Pointing out the important facts from the Old Testament, The speaker talked on the promises of Jesus about the Kingdom of God where those who will trust and follow His commandments, will inherit it. The parable of the Net, and the facts of who will get to heaven and who is not, the parable of talents etc were wonderfully spoken about to focus on this Seperation motif of the Bible.

The main idea of this motif was this that God in everything shown how he wants His people to be distinguisable, He wants that His people, His message, His words, His creation don't get mixed with the things that is false and ungodly. He wants His people to show to the World that He is a God different from other gods.

And therefore each of the Bible believers must uphold this distinguishing features and manifest the Glory of God.

The speaker challenged the congregation to go to the world yet separate themselves from the world.They must not mix up the false with the truth, the ungodliness with the godliness, and the darkness with the light.

The message was so appropriate for the graduating class as they venture into the world, a world completely different than their school campus. A world where they will have to tackle things alone, survive yet keep the commandments of God.


I praise God for this awesome message that was preached today for all of us. Surely it is so important for all of us to stand firm for the truth of the Bible wherever we go and whatever we do.

Survived for a Reason... Only God knows

Life is so fragile.. No one knows when his time on this earth will end. Life is basically uncertain. We live in a world where anything can happen anytime. Problems, sufferings, pain, sorrow and fights are very familiar words to the people on this planet. Though struggles are the inseparable part of existence yet we want to live, have one more day, an hour to see, taste and feel all that the world has to offer.

I am not a native speaker of English. So my words of expression, description or narration are limited. I can only write here with the repeated words that I somehow managed to store in my memory from the immense Vocabulary of English Language. Anyway I must write what I want to write..

It was on Tuesday, May 18,2010... I have been traveling in our truck accompanied by another colleague Jason from Dhaka to Hazrapur ( Bangla Hope Campus). We started from Bangla Hope Dental Clinic at around 6.30 am and headed towards BASC first just because we had to pay student subsidy there. We reached at the college by 7.30 am. Jason's brother entertained us in his house with the morning breakfast. It was good for the appetite, felt satisfied having the rice and pickle. Having done the breakfast, we headed towards the college treasurer's office to pay the subsidy. The treasure is a man of few words and calm. He welcomed us warmly and then as we kept discussing our issues , he called the cashier and accepted our check. Meanwhile someone was sent to bring some cold drinks. We did enjoy the cold drinks and refreshed ourselves. Once we were done with the office dealings, we were back to our truck, a few students came around for their pocket money, and Jason Halder as usual paid their money. Joseph Biswas one of the teacher at the college decided to gift us some mango and so he plucked some mangoes for us. After being done with all the things, we headed towards our final destination at around 9 am.

Jason drove till the Jamuna Bridge and then I asked him to allow me to drive sometime. I did take over and at beginning it was a bit zig zag driving but I started doing better once I got the car going.Though there was a sudden stop at a certain situation while I was driving , but it was a good saving and nothing happened with that. I kept driving till the Highway Restaurant, parked the car ,got a bottle of water ,relaxed bit then headed again towards destination. Though Jason insisted to drive from there, I told him I wanted to drive further. He allowed and so I drove till Sherpur , where while crossing a Lorry, my truck got scratched. Jason thought he must drive now and so he took over.

Jason was driving alright, he has some driving experience and so naturally he was driving better than what I was. He drove , we talked , laughed a while and everything seemed alright. We were almost half a km away from Hitchmi bazar, around six km away from Joypurhat market, the truck was running out of the road, I couldn't understand what was happening so I shouted and asked Jason to control the vehicle. He seemed almost numbed and without any response. The car was running in a hundred km speed. Before I could say anything else the accident took place. I don't know what happened and I can't explain how it happened. I don't even remember what I did, I knew only when the car flipped over and came in stand still. The truck hit a tree by the road side, flipped over a couple of times or more , and finally fell in a rice field by the road side around 10 feet away from the road. The only thing I was trying to believe if I was alive or dead, I was wondering how is Jason. I felt pain on my left chest and felt that the blood of spilling out of my forehead. I saw Jason's hand was bleeding as he got cuts on his fingers. The people from the nearby village came rushing to see what happened. Some ladies were shouting if we were alright. I dragged myself out of the car, somehow feel a bit alright, walked on the road side and sat there thinking how I survived. Looking at the truck, I could hardly believe that we are still alive. The people around couldn't believe that we are alive. The front glass of the truck was in pieces and it was all over Jason's and my head. Some of the by stander helped to remove the glass pieces from Jason's head. A lady came around me with some water and spilled it over my hand to remove the glasses. One of the Old lady said I was alive just because God spared my life and my mother's breast feeding had enough strength for my life. People couldn't believe how we survived from such a serious accident. I can't believe it still now.

Immediately after the accident, I called Suchitra and others over the phone. As they learned the incidents, they rushed to the spot. We were rescued in a hired truck and taken to Imu Hospital, Joypurhat for X-ray's for any major injury. Waiting for almost and hour we got the X-ray report and the doctor assured us that we are fine and will be alright very soon if proper doses of medicine is taken. Finally we got back to campus and found people waiting at the gate, some of them walked till the shops by the corner. The campus residents present at the gate heaved a sigh of relief seeing us alive and alright. This is where I got to end my small story.

The fact that I am alive today is not just because I was so righteous a man. It is not because of any merit that I acquired. I still wonder and still shocked how God has spared our life. Our life was a complete gift of God. We survived because God decided to keep us some more time on this earth. And without any doubt I can firmly say that He has a purpose in mind. And he has a purpose for each of us.

This accident may not be the last accident of my life. There might be many more which are unknown to me today. God has spared my life the last time, with confidence I can still say that He will spare my life in future too if I continue to live by His will.


I feel privileged be alive still , to be able to breathe, smell and taste the sweetness of this world, but this is going to be very short, that's the reason I am deciding to prepare myself for a world to come, a life eternal.


Praise be to God for giving me another chance to live. May His use me for His cause whatever way he wants to.

REST IN LOVING CHRIST

REST IN LOVING CHRIST

WHETHER YOU TRAVEL TO EAST
OR TAKE YOUR TOUR TO THE WEST
YOU WILL FIND NO REST
UNLESS YOU FIND THE REST GIVER
JESUS, THE LOVING CHRIST.

WHETHER YOU LIVE IN PALACE
OR BUILD THE PEARL HOUSE
WHETHER YOU DREAM WITH PATIENCE
TO CHERISH THE FUN OF SNOW AND ICE
REST AND PEACE WON’T BE THERE
IF YOU JUST MISS JESUS, THE LOVING CHRIST.

WHETHER YOU WALK ON ROAD
OR RIDE ON LIMOUSINE OR GORGEOUS MERCEDES BENZ;
WHETHER YOU FLY THE FLIGHTS,
OR EAT THE BEST OF THE BEST
EVERYTHING WILL BE NOTHING TO YOU
IF YOU JUST DON’T KNOW JESUS, THE ANOINTED CHRIST.

S0 FIND THAT ONE, KNEEL TO HIM
WHO CARED YOU WHEN IN THE WOMB
WHO STILL CALLS ON EVERY MINUTE
COME TIRED AND WEAK, COME UNTO ME
PEACE AND REST I’LL GIVE SO FREE.

The Architects of My Life

Architects of my Life

You called me
Out of your grace and goodness
To enlighten the dark cell of my mind
And I found joy of living.

You whispered in your rising tone
That I can cross one more ocean of trouble
Though I sail with my broken ship
Though waves seems unbeatable.

You said so skillfully the other day
“Beyond the cloudy sky
Smiles the sun so bright”
And there I found a hope to cherish.

“You are better than what you think
Nothing is impossible in life
Don’t worry what others say
You can make a difference”, you said.

To give unselfishly
To exercise the truth and nobility
To love despite of differences
Is all that you taught me with patience.

I found shelter at your feet
And so much inspiration in your words
That this world seems so small now
Feels like odds were my books of exercise to learn.

My tribute to you for letting me discover myself
For making me something out of nothing
For being my shepherds,
For being the architect of my life.

The Bible, Words of Life

Bible, The Word of God

“The Bible is far more than a doctrinal guide book. God’s word generates life, creates faith ,produces change, frightens the Devil, causes miracles, heals hurts, builds character, transforms circumstances, imparts joy, overcome adversity, defeats temptation, infuses hope, releases power, cleanse our minds, brings things into being, and guarantees our future forever! We cannot live without the Word of God! Never take it for granted. You should consider it as essential to your life as food”

From the Book " Purpose Driven Life"