Thursday, March 3, 2011

Receive eternal life


What must I do to Receive Eternal Life.....................

A man ran up and knelt before Jesus, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?"
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: "Do not commit murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; do not cheat; respect your father and your mother."
"Teacher,"  the man said, "ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments."
Jesus looked straight at him with love and said, "You need only one thing. Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me." When the man heard this, gloom spread over his face, and he went away sad, because he was very rich.  
Jesus looked round at his disciples and said to them. "How hard it will be for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!" The disciples were shocked at these words, but Jesus went on to say, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God! It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. At this the disciples were completely amazed and asked one another, "Who then can be saved?"
Jesus looked straight at them and answered. "This is impossible for man, but not for God: everything is possible for God."
------(The Bible).

As part of their Social Awareness Programme, the college students who were members of the National Service Scheme were taken on a tour of the city’s slums. One of the students was appalled by what he saw: poverty, misery, undernourished children, sick and suffering elders. 
That night, while saying his prayers, he turned to God in anger and said, “Lord, how can you allow this? Why can’t you do something about it?”
He heard a voice deep within him, God said, “I already did. I created you.”

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