Through HIM Who Strengthens!

Colossians 3: 1 “ If then you were raised with Christ, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE ……. ” Hectic work schedules, a clinging toddler at home, routine household chores coupled with my bad health made it very difficult for me to spend some time with GOD, studying His Word and enjoying His presence in prayer. Days, weeks passed by, though with lot of shame and guilt for not prioritizing my daily routines in order to fit in THE THINGS ABOVE. Suddenly, one day I was led by the Holy Spirit to the aforesaid scripture which requires us to SEEK the things above. The word ‘SEEK’ caught my attention and I started giving a practical thought on it. " Seek " means to pursue, search for, endeavor to obtain. K eep seeking means to seek after and strive for earnestly, to strive to find something, to devote serious effort to realize one’s desire or objective, to aim at, to try to obtain some state or condition. SEEK used in this scripture emphasizes som...

Delays in our Life drive us impatient, faithless, hopeless, unwise and sometimes wild and crazy too. We are extremely happy when things happen in our timing. But sadly, life doesn’t assure us the ‘when’ in most of the instances. We as believers, have to be extra-cautious because these are the times when our all-time foe is busy working schemes to tempt us to impatience, doubt, confusion, disappointment, depression, anxiety, weariness and failing us to inherit what GOD has for us in store. Let us turn to the scripture Exodus 32: 1 [New King James Version (NKJV)] Now when the people SAW that Moses DELAYED coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, MAKE US GODS THAT SHALL GO BEFORE US ; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” By strength of hand the Lord brought them forth out of Egypt and the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud ...