The Power Of Love! ( Must Read)

A long time ago in China, a girl named Sui got married & went to live with her husband and mother -in-law. In a very short time, Sui found that she couldn't get along with her mother-in-law at all.

Their personalities were very different, and was angered by many of her mother-in-law's habits. In addition, she criticized Sui constantly.

Days passed, and weeks passed. Sui and her mother-in-law never stopped arguing and fighting.

But what made the situation even worse that, according to ancient Chinese tradition, Sui had to bow to her mother-in-law and obey her every wish. All the anger and unhappiness in the house was causing Sui's poor husband! D great distress.

Finally, Sui could not stand her mother-in-law's bad temper and dictatorship any longer, and she decided to do something about it! Sui went to see her father's good friend, Mr.Huang, who sold herbs.

She told him the situation and asked if he would give her some poison so that she could solve the problem once and for all.

Mr.Huang thought for a while, and finally said, "Sui, I will help you solve your problem, but you must listen to me and obey what I tell you."

Sui said, "Yes, Mr.Huang, I will do whatever you tell me to do." Mr.Huang went into the back room, and returned in a few minutes with a package of herbs. He told Sui, "You can't use a quick-acting poison to get rid of your mother-in-law, because that would cause people to become suspicious. Therefore, I have given you a number of herbs that will slowly build up poison in her body. Every other day prepare some delicious meal and put a little of these herbs in her serving.

Now, in order to make sure that nobody suspect you, when she dies, you must be very careful to act very friendly towards her. "Don't argue with her, obey her every wish, and treat her like a queen." Sui was so happy.

She thanked Mr.Huang and hurried home to start her plot of murdering her mother-in-law.


Weeks went by, and months went by, and every other day, Sui served the specially treated food to her mother-in-law. She remembered what Mr.Huang had said about avoiding suspicion, so she controlled her temper, obeyed her mother-in-law, and treated her like her own mother.

After six months had passed, the whole household had changed. Sui had practiced controlling her temper so much that she found that she almost never got mad or upset. she hadn't had an argument with her mother-in-law in six months because she now seemed much kinder and easier to get along with.

The mother-in-law's attitude toward Sui changed, and she began to love Sui like her own daughter. She kept telling friends and relatives that Sui was the best daughter-in-law one could ever find. Sui and her mother-in-law were now treating each other like a real mother and daughter.

Sui's husband was very happy to see what was happening. One day, Sui came to see Mr.Huang and asked for his help again. She said, "Dear Mr.Huang, please help me to keep the poison from killing my mother. I do not want her to die because of the poison I gave her."

Mr.Huang smiled and nodded his head. "Sui, there's nothing to worry about. I never gave you any poison. The herbs I gave you were vitamins to improve her health. The only poison was in your mind and your attitude toward her, but that has been all washed away by the love which you gave her."

HAVE YOU REALIZED that how you treat others is exactly how they treat you? There is a Chinese saying: "The person who loves others will also be loved in return." God might be trying to work in another person's life through you. Likewise, let us spread THE POWER OF LOVE.

"By This All Men Will Know That You Are My Disciples, If You Have Love For One Another." John 13:35

EMPTINESS - WITHIN YOU!

This afternoon, one of my friends called up seeking some sort of encouragement since he was feeling the emptiness within himself. Let me tell you, it's not only he but everyone has an emptiness in his or her life, which needs to be fulfilled. And generation after generation it's been man's effort to fufill this emptiness through different means - some try drugs, some try sex, some try movies, sports & other entertainments, some try by accumulating gold & riches of this world, some try relatives & by making more friends, there are a few try to get fufilled by seeking power,post & honor... yet man is failed to fulfill that emptiness which is in him.

Jesus said in John 4:13, "Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again."

All the efforts of man and of this world can bring only a momentarily satifaction... that's why man keep experimenting different things, but in vain!

Inorder to get yourself fulfilled- you first got to understand man's creation.

In Genesis 1:26, we read that "Then God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness..."
and
Genesis 2:7 says, "the Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."

When God created, He created a complete man without any emptiness. Thus, a man is only complete when he reflects the image & likeness of God in and through his life.

But after the fall of man in Genesis chapter 3, we read that they lost that perfection and distorted the image of God which was in them - guilt entered in their lives, fear gripped them, they started hiding from God, out of frustration & discouragement they started blaming eachother, accusing God and so on... it continued thereafter their son to kill his own brother (Genesis 4:8). The total lose of God's Glory(image) that was in man (Romans 3:23). And An EMPTINESS came in man's life.

Yes, an empty man is always incomplete - in him there is guilt, fear, frustration, discouragement, lonliness, sadness etcs. Altogether there is an EMPTINESS!

In John 4: 14, Jesus siad, "But whoever drinks of the water
that I shall give him shall never thrist; but the water that I shall give him
shall become in him a well of water sprining up to eternal life."

Colossians 2:10 says,"In Him(Jesus) you have been made
complete...)"

How can you drink of this Water and spring up to eternal life and how can you be complete in Him?

"Let the wicked forshake his way, and the evil man his thoughts and let
him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God,
for He will abudantly pardon." Isaiah 55:7

There is no way but only repentance. Repentance means that we put off the old man & the old ways and we put on the new man & the new ways. When we repent, once again God restores us in His Spirit to start doing those things which are right and reflect God's image & likeness. Obey God's Word... "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." 2 Cor.5:17
Once the image of God is restored, he is a New Creature, a complete man! There is no emptiness within...