GROWING UP in Bombay, India as a 6-year-old onward, I knew
of One American City: NASHVILLE. It was a city well etched in my mind in my early formative years.
Awareness about New York, California, San Francisco, Los
Angeles and Chicago came much later in life.
Why, you may ask?
Well.....I grew up on Late Jim Reeves & Elvis Presley music
as a kid.
My Dad had Vinyl Records and I typically developed a reading
habit very early on and I used to read the Notes on the back side of the Jacket
of these Vinyl Records of Jim Reeves and Elvis Presley and two sets of words
would stand out:
RCA & NASHVILLE
The Music of the above two Artists held its own fascination of
course for me and the fact that all this wonderful music was produced in
Nashville bore a fascination for America from early childhood.
I Never Dreamed of ever getting to America as in my mind America
was for Indians who were Scientists, Doctors or Engineers or Students who were
pursuing A Science Education and I was just an accountant.
Little did I know back then as a child that there would come
a time in the late 90s’ & a day would come when I would board a flight from
Dubai to Chicago to be involved with SAP/R3 ERP Implementation & that would
be my ticket to the United States of America on an H-1 Visa in circa 1996-’97.
Well even after coming to the USA and being here for close
to two decades, some how the Dreams and Passion about Nashville took a back
seat.
BUT GOD in who I believe & trust and I am always
tracking or trying to track as much as I am reminded to, NEVER forgets our
Dreams and Aspirations. That is the GOD I have come to know time and time again
ever since I embraced HIM as my personal savior as a young teenager back in New
Delhi, India.
That does not mean that I had a easy ride through life so
far. There have been plenty of bumps and
upsets throughout my Christian Journey.
Christian Life is NOT easy. Perish
that thought. You follow The MAN
wholeheartedly due to what HE has accomplished for you and for me on that
wooden cross 2000+ years ago. Period.
I am just in Awe of how HE has worked it out in HIS Time!
Here I am going to NASHVILLE, TN on a Speaking Engagement speaking to more than 100 Finance Professionals in Nashville and with my Ticket and Stay paid for.
How Wonderful is HE!
HE is An Amazing God!
We live in an Age and Time when RAGE Against the Jewish
Carpenter, that Famous Nazarene who caused the Divide of Time between BC and AD
is One of the Most Hated Person the World Over.
One just has to be on Social Media or YouTube to know All
the Spite and Hate that is directed at The HOLY ONE.
That may continue ad-infinitum and as far as I am concerned
its water over a duck’s back whether Richard Dawkins, or Late Christipher
Hitchens or any Atheist or Agnostic mocks at HIM.
HE is who HE is to those who are Awakened and Stirred by the
CROSS at Calvary.
It has been A RELEVANT FACT well before HE took on human
form and continues to nudge at the human mind and tug at the human heart and
Knocks at their door even today and will continue to do so till the end of
Age. That is HIM. HE is unstoppable at that and HE will carry
on.
I am just a Soldier of The Cross and Because HE Lives, I can
Face Tomorrow.
I know, that My Nashville Trip would Never Have Happened if
HE did not wish for it to.
Everything happens IN HIS TIME. This is why I Testify &
I am NOT Ashamed of The Cross &
Acknowledging who HE is to me in the face of the Stiffest Opposition.
HE IS MY SAVIOR.
Note: The Christian is not like the Snake Oil Sales Men who
are out there peddling the Gospel & make it out to be to fool gullible
masses to help them buy their next supersonic Private Jets for their escapades. As long
as Christianity is on the face of earth, there will be Snake Oil Sales men and
women on the world platform who have interests like Judas did in MONEY. For those types Gospel is A Business.
One Thing we must Remember what The Nazarene Said: “Look, I
am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and
harmless as doves.’ ◄ Matthew 10:16 ►
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