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Monday, May 04, 2009 

I was thinking...

God has a purpose for you, His moral purpose and expectations. For instance, He expects people to treat each other in a respectful manner. Actually He has a purpose for the whole world. And you contest it. You say you want to set up and rule in your own kingdom, and pursue your own purposes, and not serve God's kingdom.

Now, you may certainly contest and challenge God, but you will never overthrow him. That’s a permanent personal frustration! Or you not contest God, but
you do not have the power to do what you know to be right. That’s the personal problem of lack of power, even if you have the wish.

You  have a weakened will--incompatible with and disproportionate to what
you really need. It’s like trying to use a cell-phone battery to run your car. The battery really has power, but it is to be used for something else.

You also notice that you don't have control over your own will. Your will is influenced by a number of factors. For example, social factors influence your will. You do what peers in society think is right, even though you know what society thinks is right is wrong.

So how do you stop fighting God and start pleasing him? By embracing the his initiative. God has taken the initiative to bridge the gap that you have created between him and you by your moral departure. We couldn't reach Him.

He has reached us.

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Thursday, April 30, 2009 
On one rainy day in Costa Rica, I was overwhelmed as CNN scrolled news about natural disasters on several fronts:

• The earthquake in South Asia taking at least 3000 lives
• Hurricane Katrina’s death toll passing the 1000 mark
• Mudslides washing away an entire village in Guatemala, followed by an earthquake
• The fear of bird flu mutating and invading the human race

Right now, authorities are hoping that the swine flu will not turn into an international pandemic.

This is not the first time we have been met with this type of disaster. In 2005 we awaited the avian influenza, while remembering the 1918–19 Spanish flu which killed 50 million people in 18 months. And “scientists have long forecast the appearance of an influenza virus capable of infecting 40 percent of the world’s human population and killing unimaginable numbers” (“The Next Pandemic?” by Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005, 84:4:3). As death tolls rise, the questions gnaw at my soul. Why all of this apparent mindless, meaningless madness? Is God telling us, our country, our world something specific? Is this the beginning of the end?

On the one hand, I wish I knew final and definite answers. But that requires me to be God Himself. Having been relieved of that privilege and responsibility, my next best option is to seek answers in His final and definite revelation in His Word.

One of the unquestionable causes is original human sin. Sin is rebellion against God. The most radical event in early earth history was humankind’s Fall away from God, when the original humans chose to rebel against Him. That mother-of-all disasters put the earth under God’s curse. Thankfully, God didn’t turn away from his providential care for the human race (or else we wouldn’t be here at all). Sadly, humanity lost immediate, existential relationship to Him. This earth is not heaven, and often feels like hell, for it is groaning, grunting, and growling in futility. Our planet is still paying for mankind’s original departure from the Creator.

We also factor in Satan’s role in random human suffering and death. Satan defied God’s sovereignty —he cannot ever overthrow it—and was cast out of heaven to earth. Our earth began to shudder and continues to tremble.

There is hope, however. Because of the triumph of the Lord Jesus over sin, death, and Satan, we can know that one day God will pull His people out of the suffering, and this quaking earth will destruct. The Sovereign Savior will one day return to rule this earth and to guide the nations with righteousness. In that day, those who have trusted in Him will not have to deal with such terrors as the swine flue and economic uncertainties.


Today, in the face of uncertainties, we have the choice to realize our inability to predict and control and repent before God or to resist Him. People are small, weak, and at the mercy of the elements. Natural disaster calls for humility before God and reminds people to find their permanent security in God alone. Our only hope is to repent and pursue a right relationship with God.

Our planet is quaking, rocking, shaking, and will one day be destroyed. Are you ready to secure your destiny? Even things you may sincerely consider spiritual aids to personal health will only harm in the fires of judgment if you do not have a relationship with the Lord Jesus. If you are not assured of your salvation standing with God, will you contact me about the possibility of personal and eternal hope for you, regardless of your earthly circumstance?

Write to me by going to www.rameshrichard.com and clicking "Ask a Question."
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Monday, April 27, 2009 

I was thinking...

The basic human problem in relation to truth and God is a moral problem. The Bible says, "A fool says in his heart 'there is no God.'" He has not said it in his head!


If we said it in our head, we could have done something about the
problem, but since we say it in our hearts, our heart is the problem.
You are your own problem.


While you have willfully and morally departed from God, you can’t claim ignorance. You have some knowledge, even some knowledge of what is right. Those kinds of things are written on your conscience and in your heart. Unfortunately, your willful, moral rebellion clouds your reading of your own heart and conscience.

Evidence of moral departure includes the fact that you think yourself morally superior to others. You should instead compare yourself with God's perfection morality!. Evidence of moral departure includes the fact that you think you can somehow reach God on your own terms, instead of submitting to God's terms to access him. Evidence of moral departure includes the fact that you think you are basically good and do good rather than being basically bad and doing bad. Here
you are completely disqualified from perfection because you have at
least done one bad thing in your life, but you only count the good
things in your life. 


You are found guilty, before God’s perfection.

And yet there’s hope of freedom.


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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 

I was thinking...

Impatience is problem which affects many people. We all know that we should not lose our patience, but all of our knowledge doesn't give us the power to do what we have to do. It doesn't give us the power to do that which is right to do, that which must be done.

Why? Your will is in bondage. Haven't you often done something wrong and wished you hadn't done it? It fills you with remorse as you wonder, "How can I of all people have engaged in such debauchery?"

That is why you are sometimes filled with apathy, because you have gotten so used to doing wrong things that often it doesn't even bother you.

You have to ask,”Who is my will serving? And if it is serving who should be served? And if it isn’t serving who should be served, is it really my will?

Your basic problem is willful, moral departure from the truth. All humans
have willfully and morally rebelled against God and that leads to intellectual difficulties with God. 

God's Word says, "The fool has said in his heart there is no God." He has not said it in his head. If he had said it in his head, we could have done something about you. Since you say it in your heart, you have a heart problem. I can't do anything for you. But God can. The Truth Can. The Son can.

Are you enslaved?


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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 





Ramesh Richard PhD Thd
www.rameshrichard.com

The phrase, “It is written,” frames both ends of Slum Dog Millionaire which  claimed every worthy movie award in 2009. The story warms the hearts of young millions of India (and the world over) in karmic conviction: nothing can stop destiny.

Yet that same conviction generates frustration among the disadvantaged over being left out of the good life. A deep sense of injustice from an impersonal “it is written” causes confusion, resignation, even laziness in the present circumstance. If all circumstances of life are impersonally written, then one had better resign to the present situation. If one’s own and other’s situations are impersonally written, then nothing needs to motivate our initiative to personally succeed, or to help others who are caught in what is impersonally written and inexorably enforced.
One’s best options are to try the hand of luck, for who knows, lucky breaks could have been written into one’s story.

Contrary to a fatalistic, impersonal happening of life, the Bible speaks about a personal writing of each human life. “In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed” (Psalm 139:16).

A personal sovereign God has written a book on all reality, including your life. Just like SDM’s original story was written by a creative author with a thought and a plot; and just like the movie director adapted and produced the award-winning movie, God has authored and produces your life. Just like nothing in the book or
the movie happens without meaning, nothing happens to any of us by impersonal forces at work. A personal, all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful God, has personally developed the theme and the plot of your life.

God is concerned about you, and the details of your life. He has planned for them and provided for them. You are not left  to resignation nor randomness, but to discovery, and action. God’s sovereignty includes your freedom to choose as well as facing the consequences of your choice. In fact, when the Bible uses the phrase, “it is written,” it is to point to a body of writing that relates God’s
story and his plan for the human race.
 
If we judge ourselves worthy of eternal life then we would humbly accept His provision for His personal purpose for us. God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as part of His story for humanity and to provide for your entire story,
from now to eternity. He has not only written in the length of our days in his book; he has written out the way we need to live for the rest of  our days. You are a part of plan that you don’t fully know, but is working itself out daily, not impersonally, but in a supervised manner. Indeed you know the Person who wrote the plan.

You can choose to believe SDM’s view of reality—a life based on an impersonal “it is written;” or one which views circumstances knowing that the creative,
power of a Personal Author has woven an award-winning story around your life. Now, you can realize that your life is already filled with meaning, and you can begin to live it with purpose and initiative. I invite you to a confident, hope-filled, intentional relationship with the Sovereign God. The phrase, “it is written,” assumes a Writer. Write me at the website above.


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Monday, February 23, 2009 

I was thinking... about the phrase, "The bondage of the will.” Have you ever heard that phrase? We all experience it often.

Have you ever noticed that what you want to do, you don't do; what you
should do, you don't do; and what you don't want to do and shouldn't
do, you keep doing? Do you relate to that? It’s a universal problem.

Consider the simple matter of patience and impatience:

Let's say you are driving and somebody cuts in front of you. You hit the
brakes with a vehemence and lay your hands on the horn with a
vengeance. But the offender is oblivious to your attention getter. He thinks you
greeted him with a rather fine "good morning." So you get even angrier.
You want to cut back in front of him.

Or, you want to be more patient with your kids or your spouse, and guess what you are not! You know you should be more patient--they really haven't done anything against you. But you are impatient. It is not a case of not knowing
what should be done. You are not even able to do what you know should
be done. And that is frustrating!

Why? Your will is in bondage. You have to ask; who is my will serving? Can my will be freed?

What do you think?


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Friday, February 13, 2009 


I was thinking…

A journalist who has written a series of books on family and marriage is
suggesting that the longer a marriage lasts the more adjusted a couple
is to each other. In spite of a diminishing libido, “Older couples,
compared to middle-aged couples, expressed lower levels of anger,
disgust, belligerence and whining and higher levels of one important
emotion, namely affection….emotional stability steadily improves.”

Then the author considered if unhappily married people should split up. Does
divorce make people happy? Her “short answer seems to be
rarely…unhappily married adults who divorced or separated were no
happier, on average, than unhappily married adults who stayed married
to the same partner. Only one in five of them was happily remarried.
More surprisingly, a majority of those who remained married pronounced
themselves happy at the end of the five-year period.”

Every marriage goes through difficult times, rough patches, and strained
periods. If you want to leave because you are unhappy, studies and
reports show that you ought to hang on, in the middle of your
unhappiness. At the very worst, a known unhappiness (unless your life
is being physically threatened) is better than an unknown unhappiness.
And if the potential for known unhappiness to turn into known and
unknown happiness is likely as you get older, hold on. You can outlast
your unhappy marriage season to a better adjusted relationship of
affection. I know!



However, you need spiritual, supernatural, salvation to facilitate your move to maturity. Ask me how.



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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 
Whole nations, at least the entire world of finance and investment, are presently watching the unraveling of money—the "only critical ingredient of life!" No one knows what to do. Politicians are acting without integrity—but that is not new. Large banks are having to assert their liquidity, and the louder the assertions, the harder it is to believe them!

 

No one wants to acknowledge that we have reached the limits of intellectual ability. At this time, the experts are working on a bail-out plan for the bail-out plan, running to history to guide us. And yet, the valuable lessons of history seem to be irrelevant to an entirely new hyper-global reality.

 

While history can give counsel for the present, the past was never adequate to control present decisions. Earlier circumstances were unique, just like today's conditions are unusual.

 

God places socio-political-economic history at His feet. Nations and leaders (the best and most powerful) seek to shed His authority (Psalm 2:2), but that's a bad move that invites quick judgment. "We should have seen it coming, only I didn't think it would come so fast," expressed an investment banking expert. Certainly, like that Psalm notes, "the nations are in tumultuous rage." Yesterday, a rumor caused panicked hundreds to run to their banks in order to withdraw their money. "Imaginary vanity" consumes the finest financial minds of the world as they deal with a pace of change and depth of complexity never before experienced.

 

What can humanity do then? They can run to the bank; and the bankers can run to history. Instead, the Psalmist challenges us to run to the Maker of all reality—past, present and future; peoples, times, and places; and throw themselves at His feet in need. If we are wise, we will immediately give homage to the Son; we will "kiss His feet" so that God's just wrath will be quenched. Indeed there is hope, as the Psalm continues, "Happy will be all who take refuge in Him" (v. 12).

 

If you are willing to sincerely do homage to God's Son today, would you contact us? Even if you do not know who God's Son is, we may just be able to point you to Him.

 

 

 

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Monday, September 22, 2008 

Three newspapers I regularly read seem to have copied headlines from each other this last week of September 2008. Key repeated words include: crisis, panic, turmoil, woes, and fears. Recurring phrases in editorials include "day of reckoning," "uncertain fate," and "runaway greed."

There has not been a global financial crisis like this one in recent memory, especially since the whole world became financially integrated. Some experts are terming the crisis a "financial tsunami," or a "financial 9/11," though no losses of life have (yet) been reported with the crunch, squeeze, and downturn.  Yes, there have been losses of job, confidence, and pride, but we don't want to equate them with the huge losses of life, even one life, that physical disasters bring on the human race.

Decisive, quick action by those in responsible authority is needed to assure global human well-feeling. During hard times like these humans don't feel well. They feel unsafe, uncertain, and unstable. They have to redefine what they believe provides stability in the present and security for the future.

In God's Word, stabilizing the present and securing the future comes from rightly relating to the only One who stands above all earthly circumstance, across history, geography, and economics. I go to an all-time favorite of God's people to provide us a new headline.

 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (Psalm 46:1) should be super-imposed on disturbing news headlines. God is our shelter and strength, our stability and security in every form of trouble. He is our very present help in peril, and as the future becomes present continues as our present help in tribulation.

If you are not assured of a right relationship with God, please contact us. If you are assured of a right relationship with God, please let us know too.  Perhaps, we can connect our readers with each other. We look forward to showing you how you can find hope from a new headline that is just as real as today's news.


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Monday, September 08, 2008 

Category: Religion and Philosophy

So you did an honest search of your heart...

and discovered you are deeper and deeper into entrapment's shaft. You walked on what you thought was familiar ground but now plummeting down but straining up to see help's way out.  Philosophical reasoning offers hope but only if you accept the measures for true forgiveness. Are you ready to look for that kind of forgiveness? Would you accept a perfect rescuer who offers true forgiveness?

Follow this as honestly and eagerly as you can:

(1). Conscience has finally gnawed and annoyed it's way into your life to reveal that sin and standards of Perfection (GOD) are in disconnect… sin is in your life.

(2). You and I were born already 'down entrapment's shaft', and confirm our entrapment by our choices and actions. Trapped and alone we've fought, figured, and tried to finance our way out of our entrapment. Failure is obvious before God and in our own heart.

(3). Fortunately, the perfect rescuer, GOD, has come unto us and into the shaft in the person of the LORD, Jesus Christ. The offer of His earthly life and His subsequent death, burial, and resurrection on our behalf was sufficient for true forgiveness in God's economy. Does this not have the distinct privilege of perfect philosophical balance between the perfect standard of morality and justice and the perfect fulfillment and expression of love?! Even more fortunate for you is God's invitation to personally accept His offer and be free of sin's guilt and entrapment.

(4). How? By right away embracing the LORD Jesus as God's forgiveness offer to you and then making Him the leader of your life in values and conscience and action.

The Lord Jesus Christ said...

"I tell you the truth, anyone who hears my Word and believes on Him Who sent Me, has eternal life and shall not come into condemnation but has passed from death to life." Consider those words:

"I tell you the truth" - this is not theory, mythology, opinion; this is TRUTH.

"Anyone who" - from ANY background, religion, caste, place, culture. Anyone from anywhere.

"Who hears My word" - When you consider his offer, you are hearing His Word.

"And believes on Him (God) Who sent me" - Not simply belief THAT God exists, but to belief ON God: i.e., resting, trusting, and simply believing on the One Who sent His own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

"Has eternal life" - Notice that there is no doubt in the statement. Not MAY have eternal life; Not SHALL have eternal life. But HAS eternal life. . . now.

"And shall not come into condemnation" - We have failed to meet God's expectations; we have sinned, and therefore we're condemned. BUT you, who hear His Word and believe on Him, shall not come into condemnation. The Lord Jesus died in order to cover the sins that put you in hell. And he rose again to prove to you that he can give you eternal life.

"But has passed from death to life" - again a statement of reality without hesitation. Such a person has moved (past tense) from death to life.

Do you desire to receive life, eternal life ?

If yes, you can express your belief on the Lord Jesus Christ by talking to God and saying some thing like this:

God, I know I have done many wrong things and fall short of Your perfect expectations. I deserve eternal death. But I believe You sent Your Son, the Lord Jesus, to take my eternal sentence of death and that He rose again to offer me eternal life. I welcome Him into my life to become my only Savior.

Have You Talked To God?

If you have talked to God in the above sentences and are ready for His life to come into you right now and be confident of His eternal life for you after your death.

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