Way to the Father's Heart

I wrote this song in 2007, when things were a mess in my life, and God was busy calling out Peace and bringing me His rest. It is one of the very beautiful reminders of how peaceful His love can be even if everything else is a mess. [Translation below] Laadu ke bacche pe hoke savaar, Aata hai shaanti ka Raajkumar, Uthane to ko mere gunaahon ka bhaar, Masih chala aata hai, Masih chala aata hai. Aankhon main leke Woh swarg ka pyaar, Dil main Woh lata ummedein apaar, Anand se Uske cchalakta sansaar, Masih chala aata hai, Masih chala aata hai. Ajab sa hai kitna Uska vyapaar, Dukh leke karta hain khushiyaan nisaar, Chinta ke badle main deta qaraar, Masih chala aata hai, Masih chala aata hai. Uska vachan suno karta pukaar, Mukti hai Usi ke lahu ki dhaar, Uske logon ki nahi hogi haar, Masih chala aata hai, Masih chala aata hai. oh.. and Laadu is an animal that bears burdens; jispe bhaar laada jata hai. 'Laadna' means 'to load'. It is smaller than a donkey, it can b

I made a choice to knock on a door not meant for me. He warned me, I did not understand. I stood outside the door. He stood with me. I knocked the door, and it didn’t open for me. He stood with me. I knocked and I knocked. He knocked with me. The door did not open. I waited. He waited with me. I waited. He tried to lead me away from the wrong door. I didn’t understand. He waited. I was knocked down. He was with me. It was an iron door that refused to relent to my knocking. He was with me. I knocked the door till I was hurting and bleeding. He knocked for me. I knocked till was exhausted and weary. He was with me. I sat by the closed door and waited for 6 years, knocking now and then, wearing myself out. Keeping patience and losing it. He waited with me. I knocked off and on. He knocked way more than I did – for me. I refused to budge from the door not meant for me. He stayed. I didn’t understand anything. He understood everything. Yet, He wa

Joshua speaks to the house of Joseph – his two sons’ descendants – to take the country that is allocated to them. There are 2 specific instructions: Cut down the forest Drive out the Canaanites God was not making it easy for the people of Joseph. First, they need to cut down the forest & then wage war! He also adds that the people they fight are powerful (iron chariots) and strong. Yet, the command – and if we look at it differently – the promise it gives – ‘you shall drive them out’, though they seem more powerful than you. It requires faith and obedience to believe, to walk out & to do what the Lord says. A very interesting message here is – ‘you shall drive out the Canaanites’. As a promise, it seems the Lord has given the enemy into the hands of the children of Israel & they were enabled to go & conquer. As a command, it seems don’t just go to war with them and be satisfied in defeating them. Don’t keep them as slaves in some corner of their land. Don

I've learnt something about love. Love does not cause us to be weak. It makes us strong. The perfect love of the Father God makes us strong. It brings us life, joy and strength. When we love others with that love, we are strengthened within ourselves. The Word of God says - I do not have a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Problems and disagreements may arise. People are not perfect. Not even that someone special in one's life. But love overlooks. Love conquers the imperfections. No love is not blind. But love is light. When one looks at another under the perfect light of love, all things fall into the perfect perspective. Wrongs are covered, forgiven, and forgotten. Love makes it easy to forgive. Love makes it easy to move on. Love makes everything clear. Decisions come easy, and one is confident that they did right. No matter how a situation turns out, when what we do is done is love, outcome is good. Father God blesses an action done out of lov

It’s not easy? Granted. It’s not instant? Agreed. It’s impossible? Nope! The word of God helps us guard our mouth. The Holy Spirit reminds us. But, we do need to ask His help and depend on Him. Psalm 34 talks about the mouth in two verses. Ps. 34:13 states that one must keep the tongue from speaking evil and deceit. Well, that's the challenge! However, the key to this problem lies in the first verse of this Psalm. In Ps. 34:1 , the Psalmist says – ‘ I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. ’ It’s tiring to attempt to hold our tongue in our own strength. We have tried and failed. Times innumerable! It only serves to show us how incapable and inefficient we are without God’s help. James 4:7 states the same principle, the same key - ‘ So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you. ” Submission to God is the key to resisting evil ; such that not us, but the devil flees. Jesus Ch

Just another day! Or is it!? So, here was this woman, a Samaritan, who was having just another day. She came to the well to draw her everyday water. It may seem she just happened to meet Jesus who was resting there from being on a journey. He was on the way and she was on the way. That day her way crossed His – or He crossed her way with His own – ‘ needing to go through Samaria ’ [ John: 4-4 ]. Was it a chance, an accident? It looks like it, initially, but by the time Jesus is done there, [ J ohn 4:41-42 ], full-fledged plan of God was being revealed, executed, and put into action for many people and generations. Let’s look at the conversation that our Savior stopped to have with a Samaritan woman – a conversation that changed her life and through her, of many others in her village. Jesus initiates the conversation John 4: 7 : Jesus asked her for a drink. This, in itself, is wonderful. Jesus initiated the conversation. There are a few examples in the gosp