Monday, June 2, 2008

What am I building my life on : Jesus The Rock or Me The Sand!

Well good to know that Campus Vibes is kick starting in a few days from now;hope our friends from Assam and different parts of the country have a safe and joyous journey to Bangalore(IT capital of India)-we hope and pray that Bangalore becomes the Spiritual capital one day !
I am here to share few key experiences I have had during the past few weeks.If you were to read the latest edition of the JY International newsletter ,Mr.Manoj Sunny in his introductory column speaks about two kinds of youth ,one the techno-savvy group and the other who have no much clue about technology and stuff(I would call them the simple beings).I gladly would love to call myself techno-savvy but sometimes as they say too much technology can spoil the bare simplicity of an human being.I sometimes feel that we all unnecessarily become sophisticated with life when we have the option of making it simple and straight forward.
Its so easy to replace the simple smile of ignorance with the more arrogant smile of -"I know everything".Now a days its easier to replace simplicity with sophistication.Let me come to what I originally wanted to share its about an incident that took place last week .I was called to lead a small time of Praise and Worship at one of our campus prayer meetings in Bangalore.I gladly said yes to them and went completely unprepared for the same.Well donno may be we all take things for granted when we are 'tagged' as an expert in something.I am tagged as an expert in Ice breaking/MC etc and that most often leads to a sophisticated feeling of pride and arrogance."Pride goes before a fall"- have you heard that before but sometimes that fall can be quite suttle.I went into the Praise & Worship fully loaded with my own creativity and capacity without any preparation and a sinful heart(Hadn't confessed for a long time ha !).Well i must say that the P+W went on well (you know you can start doing things perfectly with some practice),so after the entire gathering one young friend of mine who attended the meeting calls me aside and asks, " Did you confess chetta(bro)? I felt something saying within me that You haven't" .Boom , the truth hit hard God spoke through Him and I stood nodding my head with out any logical reason for my unpreparedness.No one ever in JY had told me about this before.It was an humbling experience because I knew that I started taking God for granted and my creativity was overriding the power of the spirit.
I hurried to the nearby church early in the morning the very next day and made a beautiful confession,a gentle breeze of peace blew through me.A simple decision to confess and a ton load of peace in return .
A simple experience in my life but one of great significance.I keep on asking myself from that day : " What am I building my life on , Jesus The Rock or Me The Sand! "

1 comment:

Jordy Michael said...

Ya.. Thomas what you said is correct. What makes us effective is not only experience but also openness to the Lord. If we build the house on the Rock (Jesus), then everything will be strong.

Keep going with the Lord.

"I have never yet found a man who has not converted,if previously I had time to pray the rosary - st.Clement