Seek HIM (Youth Post)

The journey started right from childhood, even while the child starts crawling. The kind of stories the mother tells us goes into our minds and stays there influencing our personae in the days to come.

During my good old school days, entertainment was limited to the print media and Radio, a privileged possession of a few. “Phantom” was one of our favourite heroes whom we read and saw in the pages of “The Illustrated Weekly of India”. He was the hero of the jungle. He had the sense of danger any time and appeared instantly to knock out the evil doers, mostly outsiders in the peaceful and wealthy jungle (there was even a gold island). Over years, our world extended into Cinema, and later Television, the number of such Heroes also increased some forgotten and new ones acquired as we grew in age and maturity. The kind of Heroes as taught in Sunday School those days were Moses, Gideon, Samson and Joshua and the likes. However in posterity I acknowledge that these were looked upon by us more as moral science and larger than life probably as there was no element of fantasy attached to them by our teachers or parents. They remained in confines as Bible story, as a moral story session.

Today in my later years, I feel that definitely “Phantom” was invented based on the morals of the Bible as he often talked about love, synergy and peace (in the jungle). Even his oft quoted slogan was inspired from Bible.

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat. The calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together: And a little child shall lead them……They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain.”  Isaiah 11:6-9

As I entered the career path, the concept of heroes shifted to our in-house mentors and CEOs and adoration for other achievers in the field.

Looking back after almost six decades of my journey of life, there remains only one ever green Hero in my life.

He has been my real time mentor, a present help in trouble, guide, protector and my only possession and guard. He is JESUS my LORD. He has been the real Hero who has been with me and continues in my journey with the same or more love and affection on me, a non entity and an ordinary person without any apparent great achievement in career or acquiring wealth at the end of an active career. But this Hero has given me peace and tranquillity and a sense of “de ja vu” always through the life in all moments of triumphs, failures, laughter, tears, poverty and abundance… He is my Lord and Saviour. Only to realise and proclaim Him as the real Hero it has taken these years. He was behind the unbelievable and remarkable strength of Moses, Samson, Joshua, and Paul the Apostle and today to the great warriors of God demonstrating miracles and signs.

Seek Him in your childhood.

Seek Him in your youth.

Seek Him in your adulthood.

Seek Him in your old age.

Seek Him all through your life.

Let the power of the Holy Spirit be vested upon all those who are reading this message to seek and find Him.

As the Lord has said,

“If you seek Me,

You will find Me.”

Prayer:
Mighty Holy Spirit, bless us and guide us to seek and commune with the Triune God- The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. Let Jesus alone be our only Hero, our role model and our Lord through our lives.

We ask this in the blessed name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Amen.