Looking to serve christ
Dear friends in Christ,
I had something in mind and just wanted to express my views. I also want your views after you finish this post.
I have framed this letter in Paragraphs for better understanding.
How is began?
Well it all started when I started to realize that our corporate world is actually run by Satan. The money world belongs to the devil and we are all getting sucked into it day by day. Some of us Christians are just not carved for this modern and corporate environment. The office of politics, jealousy with colleagues, having a boss over you all day, where you are on call to please your master every time etc. I realized that we have become like prostitutes to our job, a slave to our boss and our lives. As we get sucked into this environment, we forget god and god of money comes first as we have responsibilities with ourselves and our families. By the end of the day we are serving the god of money and are too tired to thank god or thank Jesus.
It is not that I am unhappy with my job, I love my job as an IT technician. I have a bright future in it, but I also know that the Antichrist will come from the field of computers. The internet is already full of porn and lust. Yes, we will progress in the world of Satan, we will burn our neighbors house with jealous eye, just because he has a new car and we will even sell our wife to buy a new car just to get even. The satans world of lust, jeoulosy, hatred, dislike for people, pride, the will to make more money and have a corporate kingdom will only drive our thirst to do better than others causing competition, jealousy, and to an extend that we have people like Saddam and Hitler abusing power.
Jesus was right when he said, you are not the children of this world. I realized that as I make more and more money in stocks, business and job. I am still not at peace with my life. I have seen the inside and outside of society, I have been to many countries, I have eaten the best foods but yet I am not at peace. The reason was because I was being shifted like wheat. I do well in the devils world and I feel lifted up and then the world comes back plays with me. Money boils my pot, then satan comes and pours water on it. Then when somethings, happens I am like a scared dog hiding in one place. Shivering from where the next attack is going to come. The attack may come in a the form of a breakup, financial problems, or the car breaks down and you have to buy a new one or someone in your family gets sick and one morning the news hits you like a hammer. Life is never stable, I found myself being plagued by the evil world.
Then one day, I sat down and thought, I tried to read the bible for answers, and when I started to realize my environment and the teachings of Jesus, I was saved. Yes, his words saved me. Now I am not saying that I became fanatic like a Jehovah witness, but I started respecting a man, who was humble enough to wash the feet of his disciples, I started respecting a god, who did not ask anything after he healed the sick. I started respecting a brother, who was godly in every sense and yet called us his friend. I started looking around me and my past, I started looking at the Hindus and the Muslims. How their god lashes them, if they don't go to the temple and fall at his feet. Jesus was right again, when he said beware of the wolves in sheep's clothing.
As time passed by, I realized that there is greater joy and happiness and seeing a hungry man happy with a plate of food. A warmer peace to see the spirit of Jesus dwelling in your house. A small warm and happy house. How wonderful it is to watch your kids play and have a happy wife, where we all can come together and pray in the evening. I used to dream of huge palaces and swimming pools, but what is use of that when you can only use one room to sleep in. What is use of all that wealth when the devil comes and stays with you. When Jesus was meditating, the devil said, if you worship me I will give you this whole world. Yes, the whole world means, money, land, armies etc etc. He was ready to make Jesus Saddam Hussein or Hitler, he would have given him power and wealth, he would fulfill all human desires, the cost of making wealth does not matter. Whether humans die and families get eroded. Whether you bomb a place and capture it. For the devil it does not matter, his people will do anything to get their hands on power. I am proud that our lord Jesus, commanded the devil to get away from him. We are very weak compared to Jesus, the next time a beautiful woman passes by, our eyes turn. The next time someone drives a silver Mercedes our eyes turn, but the good news is that Jesus he is our strength.
I feel the way to heaven is not in a Mercedes car but on a donkeys ass. It is through simplicity, humbleness, something like in the footsteps of Mother Teresa, or Francis of Assisi and many others who gave up everything to preach the message of Jesus. My life is at peace when I think that I would doing a small part in saving people by spreading a message of love. Thats where this idea came up, which I will talk in length.
The Idea:
Looking for ways to serve god, I was pondering days and nights. I am married and have a child. I though what is the best way to serve god. If i was a bachelor, it would be easy for me. Unlike the disciples, I also want to live on what is offered to me. Walking in those thoughts, I came up with an idea of preaching and traveling to different churches, Christian schools and then countries etc etc, if I have enough offerings, i would go further to open out training centers in poor countries and give young Christian an opportunity to learn and train on specific vocations. Open schools, hospitals, create more employment for Christians. In poor countries, some of the men beat their wives after they get drunk with frustration, as women in those countries are too simple to fight back, they are housewife's and the society looks down on women, one of the biggest reasons for that is unemployment. A lot more can be done. This thought is just a seed.
I wanted to invite people of different race and color to join hands into an organization or a group and conduct seminars in different countries etc. I feel a message of peace and brotherhood is needed all over the world. There are so many dealing with daily problems. Together we can show our face of encouragement, endurance and strength. Jesus is our hope, I imagine we can take this hope out in the world. We don't have to break our ministries or our denomination. Let us bring our ministries under a common umbrella for the purpose of Jesus. As far as I am concerned, I am not a Baptist nor an Adventist nor a catholic. I am just a follower of Jesus. I think I should not segregate myself from other by preaching denomination to my fellow brothers. I dream of a united Christian movement, where brothers of different denomination come under a common roof called Jesus. I feel denomination is man made and I am sure Jesus would not want to divide his sheep's into Adventist or Baptist.
This is just my thoughts, your doctrines are well respected and you don't have to change anyone of it to join this umbrella. The idea calls for different people of different race and denomination to join hands. If you remember the song called "We are World, we are the children, we are the ones to make a better day, so lets start giving" I think it was the movement to raise money for Africa. Something on those lines, the umbrella travels to different countries, preaching the message of love, friendship, brotherhood between Christians. It is true that united we stand and divided we fall. Satan is rampant trying to divide the sheep's, it is just like the way the wolves hunt. First they scare the sheep's, then when they are isolated they go after the weakest one and then surround him for the kill. In this world of evil, we Christians are being hunted spiritually and the wolves are trying their best to divide us. The devil is attacking the shepherd and when the pastor falls the sheep scatter into the wilderness. Jesus gave Peter the responsibility of looking after his sheep. I think we need to help him by doing our part, for the lord says that one day he will come back and if we do something today then we will be proud that we did something together to gather the sheep and the lamb.
Friends the limitations does not stop just by traveling and preaching. We have our social responsibilities in our country and state. I am positive that you will be able to open churches, schools, training centers, orphanages, home for the old and the list goes on. Yes, you will be away from your family for sometime, but this time you are employed by god. You are answerable to god himself and his spirit, we are in the business of dealing with the holy spirit and the holy spirit will take care of us. We can return once in a while to our communities and start our projects under our own ministry and then get back to world for the message. I am just offering a thought, it can be expanded with your views.
I reason I am posting it to the world is because, I would like the views from all angle. Please do let me know how you feel about it.
Dear friends in Christ,
I had something in mind and just wanted to express my views. I also want your views after you finish this post.
I have framed this letter in Paragraphs for better understanding.
How is began?
Well it all started when I started to realize that our corporate world is actually run by Satan. The money world belongs to the devil and we are all getting sucked into it day by day. Some of us Christians are just not carved for this modern and corporate environment. The office of politics, jealousy with colleagues, having a boss over you all day, where you are on call to please your master every time etc. I realized that we have become like prostitutes to our job, a slave to our boss and our lives. As we get sucked into this environment, we forget god and god of money comes first as we have responsibilities with ourselves and our families. By the end of the day we are serving the god of money and are too tired to thank god or thank Jesus.
It is not that I am unhappy with my job, I love my job as an IT technician. I have a bright future in it, but I also know that the Antichrist will come from the field of computers. The internet is already full of porn and lust. Yes, we will progress in the world of Satan, we will burn our neighbors house with jealous eye, just because he has a new car and we will even sell our wife to buy a new car just to get even. The satans world of lust, jeoulosy, hatred, dislike for people, pride, the will to make more money and have a corporate kingdom will only drive our thirst to do better than others causing competition, jealousy, and to an extend that we have people like Saddam and Hitler abusing power.
Jesus was right when he said, you are not the children of this world. I realized that as I make more and more money in stocks, business and job. I am still not at peace with my life. I have seen the inside and outside of society, I have been to many countries, I have eaten the best foods but yet I am not at peace. The reason was because I was being shifted like wheat. I do well in the devils world and I feel lifted up and then the world comes back plays with me. Money boils my pot, then satan comes and pours water on it. Then when somethings, happens I am like a scared dog hiding in one place. Shivering from where the next attack is going to come. The attack may come in a the form of a breakup, financial problems, or the car breaks down and you have to buy a new one or someone in your family gets sick and one morning the news hits you like a hammer. Life is never stable, I found myself being plagued by the evil world.
Then one day, I sat down and thought, I tried to read the bible for answers, and when I started to realize my environment and the teachings of Jesus, I was saved. Yes, his words saved me. Now I am not saying that I became fanatic like a Jehovah witness, but I started respecting a man, who was humble enough to wash the feet of his disciples, I started respecting a god, who did not ask anything after he healed the sick. I started respecting a brother, who was godly in every sense and yet called us his friend. I started looking around me and my past, I started looking at the Hindus and the Muslims. How their god lashes them, if they don't go to the temple and fall at his feet. Jesus was right again, when he said beware of the wolves in sheep's clothing.
As time passed by, I realized that there is greater joy and happiness and seeing a hungry man happy with a plate of food. A warmer peace to see the spirit of Jesus dwelling in your house. A small warm and happy house. How wonderful it is to watch your kids play and have a happy wife, where we all can come together and pray in the evening. I used to dream of huge palaces and swimming pools, but what is use of that when you can only use one room to sleep in. What is use of all that wealth when the devil comes and stays with you. When Jesus was meditating, the devil said, if you worship me I will give you this whole world. Yes, the whole world means, money, land, armies etc etc. He was ready to make Jesus Saddam Hussein or Hitler, he would have given him power and wealth, he would fulfill all human desires, the cost of making wealth does not matter. Whether humans die and families get eroded. Whether you bomb a place and capture it. For the devil it does not matter, his people will do anything to get their hands on power. I am proud that our lord Jesus, commanded the devil to get away from him. We are very weak compared to Jesus, the next time a beautiful woman passes by, our eyes turn. The next time someone drives a silver Mercedes our eyes turn, but the good news is that Jesus he is our strength.
I feel the way to heaven is not in a Mercedes car but on a donkeys ass. It is through simplicity, humbleness, something like in the footsteps of Mother Teresa, or Francis of Assisi and many others who gave up everything to preach the message of Jesus. My life is at peace when I think that I would doing a small part in saving people by spreading a message of love. Thats where this idea came up, which I will talk in length.
The Idea:
Looking for ways to serve god, I was pondering days and nights. I am married and have a child. I though what is the best way to serve god. If i was a bachelor, it would be easy for me. Unlike the disciples, I also want to live on what is offered to me. Walking in those thoughts, I came up with an idea of preaching and traveling to different churches, Christian schools and then countries etc etc, if I have enough offerings, i would go further to open out training centers in poor countries and give young Christian an opportunity to learn and train on specific vocations. Open schools, hospitals, create more employment for Christians. In poor countries, some of the men beat their wives after they get drunk with frustration, as women in those countries are too simple to fight back, they are housewife's and the society looks down on women, one of the biggest reasons for that is unemployment. A lot more can be done. This thought is just a seed.
I wanted to invite people of different race and color to join hands into an organization or a group and conduct seminars in different countries etc. I feel a message of peace and brotherhood is needed all over the world. There are so many dealing with daily problems. Together we can show our face of encouragement, endurance and strength. Jesus is our hope, I imagine we can take this hope out in the world. We don't have to break our ministries or our denomination. Let us bring our ministries under a common umbrella for the purpose of Jesus. As far as I am concerned, I am not a Baptist nor an Adventist nor a catholic. I am just a follower of Jesus. I think I should not segregate myself from other by preaching denomination to my fellow brothers. I dream of a united Christian movement, where brothers of different denomination come under a common roof called Jesus. I feel denomination is man made and I am sure Jesus would not want to divide his sheep's into Adventist or Baptist.
This is just my thoughts, your doctrines are well respected and you don't have to change anyone of it to join this umbrella. The idea calls for different people of different race and denomination to join hands. If you remember the song called "We are World, we are the children, we are the ones to make a better day, so lets start giving" I think it was the movement to raise money for Africa. Something on those lines, the umbrella travels to different countries, preaching the message of love, friendship, brotherhood between Christians. It is true that united we stand and divided we fall. Satan is rampant trying to divide the sheep's, it is just like the way the wolves hunt. First they scare the sheep's, then when they are isolated they go after the weakest one and then surround him for the kill. In this world of evil, we Christians are being hunted spiritually and the wolves are trying their best to divide us. The devil is attacking the shepherd and when the pastor falls the sheep scatter into the wilderness. Jesus gave Peter the responsibility of looking after his sheep. I think we need to help him by doing our part, for the lord says that one day he will come back and if we do something today then we will be proud that we did something together to gather the sheep and the lamb.
Friends the limitations does not stop just by traveling and preaching. We have our social responsibilities in our country and state. I am positive that you will be able to open churches, schools, training centers, orphanages, home for the old and the list goes on. Yes, you will be away from your family for sometime, but this time you are employed by god. You are answerable to god himself and his spirit, we are in the business of dealing with the holy spirit and the holy spirit will take care of us. We can return once in a while to our communities and start our projects under our own ministry and then get back to world for the message. I am just offering a thought, it can be expanded with your views.
I reason I am posting it to the world is because, I would like the views from all angle. Please do let me know how you feel about it.