A blessed sunday
I had been thinking about self-denial for sometime now, thanks to Peter Kreeft's "Love is stronger than death". I went to chruch this Sunday and we were too few to have a youth meeting. Just Vasanth and I were avilable. Hence the hotel was closed, but I never allowed that to prevent me from having a good meal when I was hungry. This Sunday I was not just hungry for fellowship I was starved, famished and fainting. I did not want to die, I wanted to live so I decided to peep into NLAG, it had been two years since I had been to NLAG. I was too late for Power house.
At NLAG I found something going on under the banner of 'NLAG YOUTH', I never knew that NLAG had a youth, nevertheless I entered because that was what I was looking for. A lady was preaching again on Self denial. As I was sitting there all of the scattered thoughts I had had about self-denial began to make sense. I was sitting there in comeplete awe. After the message took the oppertunity to clarify a doubt in her message.
At our service at St.Georges I was reading the hymn book (something I always do when the anouncements begin) to search for some words of 'age old wisdom'. There I found the words "Love triumphs over loss". It is a misinterpretation to think that it is a philosophical statement. It is a 'highly' existential one. When I read it I couldn't understand how it could existentially happen, through the rest of the service I was pre-occupied with that but still was at loss about it.
When I was listening to the message at NLAG youth all of a sudden somehow, thoughts gelled together, it wasn't about what the lady was preaching. It was what Peter Kreeft said and God speaking and I understood it. I was having revelation after revelation. It was too good. At the end of the day I was glad the hotel was closed :) God is good.
I ended my week as usual at the Tiruvanmiur beach except that my usual friend was out of town so i took Peter Kreeft with me and a miniature book reading light. He was speaking and I was listening. I was still reading Peter Kreeft at Ascendas eating KFC burger and there was another revelation from Peter Kreeft that what God expects from us is our silence not our ramblings in the name of prayer. That He is the subject not the object of our prayers.
On the whole it was a blessed day. God is brilliant, if the category of brilliance can be applied to Him.
At NLAG I found something going on under the banner of 'NLAG YOUTH', I never knew that NLAG had a youth, nevertheless I entered because that was what I was looking for. A lady was preaching again on Self denial. As I was sitting there all of the scattered thoughts I had had about self-denial began to make sense. I was sitting there in comeplete awe. After the message took the oppertunity to clarify a doubt in her message.
At our service at St.Georges I was reading the hymn book (something I always do when the anouncements begin) to search for some words of 'age old wisdom'. There I found the words "Love triumphs over loss". It is a misinterpretation to think that it is a philosophical statement. It is a 'highly' existential one. When I read it I couldn't understand how it could existentially happen, through the rest of the service I was pre-occupied with that but still was at loss about it.
When I was listening to the message at NLAG youth all of a sudden somehow, thoughts gelled together, it wasn't about what the lady was preaching. It was what Peter Kreeft said and God speaking and I understood it. I was having revelation after revelation. It was too good. At the end of the day I was glad the hotel was closed :) God is good.
I ended my week as usual at the Tiruvanmiur beach except that my usual friend was out of town so i took Peter Kreeft with me and a miniature book reading light. He was speaking and I was listening. I was still reading Peter Kreeft at Ascendas eating KFC burger and there was another revelation from Peter Kreeft that what God expects from us is our silence not our ramblings in the name of prayer. That He is the subject not the object of our prayers.
On the whole it was a blessed day. God is brilliant, if the category of brilliance can be applied to Him.