Invest in the future, to achieve your goals!

If you want to achieve your goal, invest in the future! It is a common saying we hear from many motivational speakers. 

Goals are set individually. The goals that we set individually are impermanent. No one in the world could be satisfied even after achieving the material goals that we set. We can set goals after goals, until when? Would we be satisfied after achieving it? Is there any goal that can give a final satisfaction? Is there a final goal? The best ever achievement any human can achieve? For example, if I set a goal to gain a top degree from a top university, once I gain it, I will set another one to get the best paid job? may be after that to be rich? We can get one after another. But none of these material goals can give us full satisfaction. Every one of us are made of body and soul. The goals that we set, give us the bodily or earthly satisfaction. But our own souls thirst for something beyond this material world. We often do not listen to the cry of our own soul. It always stays unheard and unnoticed. We need to have a pause from running for goals after goals and listen to the cry our souls in solitude. Then we should be able to listen and understand the soul’s desire, the desire to reach back to our creator. That is the final goal, the goal that has been designed for us by God, our creator. God has already set a goal for us. The goal of heaven. ‘So I run straight towards the goal in order to win the prize, which is God’s call through Christ Jesus to the life above’ (Phil 3:14). We need to keep this priority in our day today life as Christians. Invest in things that will help us to achieve the prize of heaven. Spend time in prayer, meditate on our heavenly goal and live a life according to the will of God.

But, the society that we live, always distract us from our goal of heaven and drive us towards gaining money, possessions and material gains. There is nothing wrong in gaining riches in a genuine way and achieving many goals in life, but we need to set priority for our final goal. Our riches become a problem when we start loving them more than we love God. We need to set priority for God, above our material gains. When priorities are in order, we will first seek the will of God in our lives. Mathew 6:33 says, “but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

However, often we forget about our final goal and do nothing about it and be immersed in the thoughts of achieving the temporary goals. That is why Jesus said, only a few will make it. Jesus tells us in Mathew 7:13-14, “Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it. But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it”.

It is hard to achieve our real goal in life. We may fall away from the path that is designed for us by God. We need to constantly in touch with God through prayer, to stay in the path. We need to seriously think about it and come back to the track, every time we fall out of it. With our human abilities, it isn’t possible to stay in the track always, but with Jesus, we can do it. Jesus will guide us through the path, He is God and He became a human to take us all to the heaven, the everlasting goal. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Let us try to stay close to Him and be submissive to Him. He has a plan for us, a plan to guide us to reach our eternal goal of heaven.

God bless! 

Does Love Change Everything?

There is a saying that love changes everything. But if our love has not been sincere, can we expect any changes? Surely not. Often our love surrounds and concerned with good and positive things in life. It is easy to love family and friends. We often find hard to love those who do evil and betray us. Because they appear to be negative and less pleasing to us and our life styles. Do we try to reach out to the negative and less appealing things around us and in the society? If we are able to show sincerity in our love towards others, we can surely expect some changes in life and in the society- a change from sorrow to joy, from pride to simplicity, from violence to peace, from bondage to freedom. We are not capable to sincerely love others with our own human strengths and limitations. But with Jesus, who came to this world with the message of peace and love, showed us the way to salvation, has the power to instill in us the true and sincere love, when we unite to Jesus.  

Jesus tells us to love everyone, even our enemies, as He tells us in Mathew 5:44-48, “But now I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil. Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that! And if you speak only to your friends, have done anything out of the ordinary? Even the pagans do that! You must be perfect-just as your Father in heaven is prefect!”

Jesus forgave the sinners and even those who persecuted him. The same Jesus says us to follow him. He is the only way to salvation. If we follow the footsteps of Jesus, we can be assured that Jesus will hold out hands and guide us to the everlasting peace, joy and freedom. But we need to be prepared to love, love unconditionally. We must love like him and dedicate ours

elves to God in every moment of our lives. This dedication will definitely help us to practice that unconditional love, helping us to walk towards being perfect, just as our heavenly Father is perfect. Then we can see that our sincere love transforms ourselves and our society for good.  

God bless!