My soul glorifies the Lord! (Luke 1:46)

Gazing at the Lord Jesus Dear friends, Greetings! Today is the Feast of the Visitation.  Today I would like to share with you on "Gazing on the Lord." Gazing is different from glancing. Gazing is a steady and more intent look, while a glance is a hurried look. In the Bible we read quite a lot about gazing. Gazing has to do with not only our eyes, but more importantly, our mind, and even our spirit.  What happens when we gaze? We look at something intently, and so allow a reflection and more importantly, an impression of the same object to be formed upon our minds. If we gaze upon good things, that has its effects, if we gaze upon bad things, that has its effects too. Our minds are indeed, are constantly "looking at" or considering or "seeing" something.  Just think of the human eye - can the eye be without sight? It is constanly looking at or seeing something. The Lord tells us, "The lamp of the body is the eye." (Luke 11:34) The eye fills our

Dear friends, may I present to you some very important Scriptures which if you can take time to read and treasure, will be a great fountain of life all through our lives - some of the "I AM" sayings of Jesus. Reading them, may we be attracted more towards Jesus, and discover Him as the real answer to our search - here they are: 14 "I AM" sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of John John 6.35 "I AM the Bread of Life. He that comes to Me shall not hunger: and he that believes in Me shall never thirst." John 6.48 "I AM the Bread of Life" John 6.51 "I AM the Living Bread which came down from Heaven. If any man eat of this Bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world." John 8.12 "I AM the Light of the world. He that follows Me walks not in darkness, but shall have the light of life." John 8.58 "Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM." John 9.5 &

"Saved in hope" Dear friends, Greetings! Today we share a little about being saved in hope. St. Paul writes to us in his letter to the Romans that we should have hope and that it is in this hope that we shall be saved. What is hope? Hope is a looking forward to something new, something better and this hope springs from faith, faith in the power of God. Again, why is it important to have hope? When God looks down on the earth, what does He see? "Now the earth was a formless void, and there was darkness over the deep. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters." (Genesis 1:2) Is God interested in the earth more than He is interested in His children? Not at all! We are God's greatest creation, and God is always concerned about us. God is watching over us. The Bible tells us that "The Lord looks down from Heaven at the children of Adam, to see if a single one is wise, a single one seeks God." (Psalm 14.2). When God looks down upon the earth, He sees

Becoming an infant Dear friends, Grace, peace, joy and all good! Today I share with you a little about becoming an infant. Yesterday I had already written to you briefly about ascending by humility and also about considering our own littleness and insignificance as one of the stepping stones or foundation stones of becoming humble. Today I share with you about a particular aspect of humility which is becoming "infant-like". Who does not love children? And who does not love infants! I have seen even teenagers who distance themselves from their parents or relatives because they feel they do not understand them; but when such teenagers see an infant, they smile, run to them and clasp them in their arms. And if this infant seems happy to be in their arms, the joy of these teenagers know no bounds. We all love infants, and our Lord loves them even more. What are the qualities of infants which make them so endearing? One great quality is their innocence. What makes them inno

Ascending by humility Dear friends, Today I would like to share with you a little about ascending by humility . We can consider an airplane as the subject of our reflection. The airplane is made to fly. It is also meant to fly high and not to fly in the lower levels where there are dangerous objects which may obstruct its flight. In the same way we too are created to fly high. The very nature of our soul is to fly high. To fly, an airplane needs fuel. If it has no fuel, or its runs out of fuel during flight, the airplane loses altitude and when the fuel runs down completely, it loses altitude fast! Now we come back to our soul. The fuel for our soul is humility. When we are truly filled with humble thoughts, we are already pointing in the right direction, which is upwards. Depending on the measure of our humility, the angle of our ascent increases. If we are downright humble, we fly straight up, at an angle of 90 degrees. The fuel is the amount of humble thoughts and considerations w