Wrestling with Scripture

After the creation of the world, the second most important gift God gave humankind was marriage. It was the one covenant that stood the test of time through the Bible and Jesus uplifted it even higher making it a sacrament. While the world is busy diluting the value of marriage, its worth understanding what the Bible has to say about it. Love God first and he will teach you to love your spouse better... If you think you need someone to complete you and take away your feeling of being unloved, marriage isn't your answer. Human love is imperfect and if you place such high expectations on the shoulders of your partner, you are eventually going to be disappointed. It is God's love that heals wounds of the past and gives a sense of completion. We look at Adam in the garden, surrounded by the beauty of creation, he felt the love of God and was complete in himself, yet God sees that he needed a 'helper', an Old Testament term used to describe one who gives support or

As I write this article, I am only a day away from undergoing an operation to remove my gallbladder. It is an operation I postponed for almost 12 years because I was too afraid. It wasn't serious until around 4 years back when I started getting severe pains and was advised surgery but I wasn't ready for it. Besides that I had to attend the very first session of the Ministry of the Word on the same day on which the operation was planned, so I decided to go for the sessions instead and to my surprise the pains went away and thankfully I never experienced them again. However, the stone didn't go anywhere and I tried homeopathy, for along time after but to no avail. I think I would try anything rather than go for an operation because, hospitals scared me so much. The bad experiences I had before, of being critical in hospital and of losing my mom due to mistakes the doctors made, had somehow affected me so badly that I was putting myself in much more danger delaying the