ஆதவன் 🔥 911🌻 ஜூலை 27, 2023 வியாழக்கிழமை
"திக்கற்ற பிள்ளைகளும் விதவைகளும் படுகிற உபத்திரவத்திலே அவர்களை விசாரிக்கிறதும், உலகத்தால் கறைபடாதபடிக்குத் தன்னைக் காத்துக்கொள்ளுகிறதுமே பிதாவாகிய தேவனுக்குமுன்பாக மாசில்லாத சுத்தமான பக்தியாயிருக்கிறது." ( யாக்கோபு 1 : 27 )
AATHAVAN 🔥 911🌻 Thursday, July 27, 2023
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” ( James 1 : 27 )
People make various efforts to show their godliness in this world. Many who make such acts want to show their piety to others. There is also a desire to get appreciation and acknowledgement from others. But our Lord Jesus Christ taught that such acts of devotion should be private.
We should pray in privacy, with the doors closed so that only the Father can know our prayer. Fasting should be done in such a way that others do not know that we are fasting. Similarly, offerings should be done without others knowing. But many Christians today practice none of these things.
Many stand on roadside and praying, taking videos of their prayer and charity works and publishing them on Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media, paste advertising posters as fasting prayers etc. These are becoming acts of Christian devotion. This is because of their pride. It is a surprising sad fact that these people who memorize Bible verses with their numbers have lost the knowledge of the verse that "God opposes the proud" (1 Peter 5:5).
And some express their devotion by garlanding images of Christ, lighting candles, burning incense sticks etc.
But today's verse says that to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world is pure piety before God the Father. That is, helping the poor and keeping our body pure without subjecting it to sin is said to be true devotion to God.
Before helping the poor, we must first live holy so that we are not defiled by the world. In other words, engaging in cheating, bribery, embezzling someone's property and giving a portion of that money to the poor is not an act that God wants. But in today's advertising world, the world respects those who do so. Hence, those who want worldly glory engage in such activities.
Beloved, God does not approve of some extraneous devotional activities or unnecessary publicity efforts. Helping the poor with honestly earned money and keeping our body clean without sin is the kind of devotion that God wants. This is the devotion acceptable to God the Father.
God’s Message:- ✍️ Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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