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Setting a standard

Date: 27-28/April, 2013

I have dated this post to remind myself for a longtime as long as I have this blog and the contents of this blog available that this is a day or these are the days I made this decision. The decision is simple, but it runs deep roots in my life as a person and more I realize this, the more I am moved by it. Here is the decision.

I SET CHRIST AS LORD [THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY] OVER ALL THAT I AM, ALL THAT I WILL BE, AND ALL THAT I REPRESENT.

For those of you who may wonder the meaning of this message, read the below. For those who the whole idea of my faith in Jesus Christ seems rather absurd and deluded, please ask me about my life, I will tell you what a wretch I been.

Context: I had gone through a cocktail of believes and faiths and some of my own creation and polytheism and universalism and inclusive and exclusive faiths and finally atheism,  with the help of objectivism. I heard the message of Christ once more evidently and clearly in 2009, and decided to follow him.

The message I heard was this, Christ also known as Jesus, was /is God incarnate, unlike the avatar form we see in Hinduism, was formed fully human and fully divine, came as to make justice of God work out in all sense, died on the cross, was buried in all real life knowledge and manner, rose again by the will of God, and his death made a way for me to be a part of him. This truth said me that in order for me to attain this new life was to accept Jesus as my Lord and saviour and to be baptized into the death and resurrection of Christ, and be born of the Spirit into this new life. I did so, in all sense, but I missed to take one point seriously, - TO SET CHRIST AS LORD. I did have Christ ordain my paths and actions and have him as a moral teacher to correct my path, and someone to follow, but the whole idea of Lordship meant very less to me. I have had no idea what is Lordship.

Yesterday, I went to RZIM-EU 's training day at Sevenoaks and then as Michel Ramsden spoke from 1 Peter 3: 15 I realized the truth about my heart, like a whole new chapter that was never opened in a book I read so often. I would in another blog write about the meeting and brag about some connections I made, but this is serious. IT IS MY LIFE GIVEN BACK TO ME, BECAUSE OF HIS LORDSHIP.

For me, Jesus had been my saviour, he had rescued me from the madness I was in and the shameful life I led and the miserable hurt I had been inflicting myself. Jesus was and is my hiding place, my safe refuge, my rock and my fortress. This means, Jesus is my comfort, my safety net, my hope in life and my strength to face another day. But, I missed out one word, the Lord.

Having Christ as my Lord should be only motive the rest of my life. Now having Christ as my Lord is a very new thing. I haven't been in Britain too long to understand lordship, nor is it practiced anywhere that I know of. I was reminded of the slavery in ancient Israel.  I am not trying to sugar coat the Bible and so I say slavery was practised every where and the Israel tribes were no exception.  But
I am not trying to bash the God of Israel also by saying that the God endorsed slavery. It was a custom that if you took money and did not pay back you were made a slave. We could see that in the  second book of Kings of Israel, (2 kings 4:1) where a man died in debt and the sons of the man were going to be taken as slaves. But the Levitical or the Holy law of Israel was this that a slave was for 7 years or till the year of Jubilee which ever came first. I am not sure of slaves from other people but life in general was given value. So, after the seven years or on the Jubilee year the slave was given a choice to leave. If the slave wanted to leave then he or she could but if the slave wanted to stay then they would get marked by jamming their ears to the door and making a mark. Yes, a painful one and I believe it was least practiced. This in my opinion had to do more with the new testament and Jesus Christ than the old. This is written in another blog.

Having Christ as your Lord is the best thing I have done ever even more than accepting him as my saviour. He is a humble and wonderful master.

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