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All my days were written in your book before one of them came to be
Finney Cherian

                In one sense everything about this era is different and in the other sense nothing about this era is different form the past generations. If you look at our life today as opposed to those fifty or hundred or two hundred years ago, clearly all you can see are changes. Primarily, technology, medicine, knowledge, transportation and communication have changed to make our lives infinitely better. On the other hand all these improvements have not really changed the anxieties, worry, unexpected tragedies of life. We can send a man to the moon and explore the vastness of the universe, put satellites in orbit that relays information in an instant, but we have not found a cure for the common cold. Ironies are everywhere, so what remains the same? The answer is human beings. We might be able to travel faster and have access to instant communication, but along with the advancement came greater complexities of life that puts the pressure on man to outdo and outperform himself all the time. It is unimportant that corporate profit was record setting the last quarter, the question is what about this quarter, its unimportant that you put in ungodly hours at the office last month, how many hours did you work and how much business did you bring in this month. The question is what does Wall street and Madison Avenue think of you now? You see, along with the advancement, problems have also increased for man.

                 Man might be able to build a space station to live in the deepest of space but man can never outturn the challenges and problems of life. There is still only one place that man can look to for answers and that is still God. The problems of man are universal, the pressures of man are constant till death and way of life still rests with God. Man's problems of sickness, disease, anger, fear, wrath, worry, anxiety, discouragement, disappointment, discontent, disillusionment, jealousy, ignorance can never be eradicated, with man's solutions. As long as these intangible evils abound, man's only hope will always be in God. Good jobs, education, money might be good as a soother of symptoms, but only God has the cure. And that cure is found only in Jesus Christ, He never promises to take away our problems, but he sill give us the strength to overcome.

                 And, that is exactly what God is looking for, overcomers. Most of us want to be overcomers but end up being murmurers. We murmur about everything, from sun up to sun down. Complaining and murmuring are for the weak and faithless and not for overcomers and God despise murmuring. When we murmur it shows to God our lack of faith in God to sustain us, and that God somehow is not in charge. But if we really understood the verse above from

                Remember, the only thing that matters in life is what God thinks of us, because if God is for us no one can be against us. And, God through Jesus Christ, cared enough to write in his book all the days of your life, even at this moment when you are reading this, it did not happen by chance, God willed it to happen so that you will put your faith in Him, who is the source of life.