Biblical Thoughts

    Psalms 91: 4 says His truth shall be a shield and a buckler. How can truth become a shield? Natural mind can see a piece of metal becoming a shield, not a piece of truth. First let’s look at how we turn a piece of metal into a shield? We shape them into a shield, hook them onto our hand and then use them against the fiery arrows. A piece of metal becomes a mighty weapon in the hands of one who decides to use it. A piece of truth can play a similar role. The best example is found in the life of Jesus. When satan came to tempt him saying, Turn the stone into bread (Math 4:3), he refuted him by quoting the Truth from Deuteronomy, that Man shall not live by the bread alone but my every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord (Deut 8:3). He kept quoting from scripture till satan fled. Here Jesus used an Old Testament Truth against satan. Adam faced a similar situation in the Eden Garden. In both the cases the temptation was about eating the forbidden food. But Adam...

  Jesus was both divine and human. He is one among the trinity who took the human form. He was on the earth, in flesh facing life. He descended into a fallen world from heaven where pain, sorrow, appetite, and hardships are not. How did he cope with this transition? How could he be divine while being human? How did he remain divine through the earthly ordeals? He lived an extremely short but disciplined life of Godly habits. Those are radically different from what the world teaches. What shall we learn from those habits of Jesus? ·          He stayed on God’s will Jesus’ parents took him to Jerusalem when he was twelve years old for the Passover feast. On the way back they found him missing in their company. They returned to Jerusalem in search of him. When they found him, he said to them, why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business? (Luke 2:49). Jesus was focused on being in his Father’s wi...