Finding Purpose & Meaning In Life [should I say it is found when I experience 'whatever my eyes desired' (see this website's name) to borrow the lines from a Bible-author (Ecclesiastes 2:10)? Read this blog to discover the answer].

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  • A MOHAMMED ALI QUOTE I COULD AGREE WITH & A MOHAMMED ALI QUOTE I COULDN’T QUITE AGREE WITH!

    – Duke Jeyaraj
    Boxer Mohammed Ali once said, “I hated every minute of training. But I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a Champion.” I agree with Mohammed Ali’s eloquent message here: tenacious training takes you to the top!

    “Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths.” That’s what champion Boxer, Mohammed Ali, who passed away on 3 June 2016, said in a live TV Program post the 9/11 Terror attacks. In other words, using his silver tongue, Mohammed Ali, effectively said that Jesus was just one of the many ways to heaven. Really?

    Likewise, many folks prefer to give Jesus neither a negative name nor a positive name. They prefer to give him neutral names. They call him just a nice dude, a good man, a good teacher – like the many blokes we already have around.

    Mary Magdalene saw the risen-again Jesus and mistook Him for a gardener (Jn 20:15). For many today, Jesus is just like a gardener. Just like there are many gardeners in the world, Jesus is yet another good guru – one more addition in a pantheon of gods!

    The disciples wrongly identified Jesus for a ghost once (Mt 14:27). For many even today Jesus is a ghost. They are scared to come close to Him. They by their life attitude (if not by their actual words) tell Him, “Jesus do not come too close to me. You will not like the things I think about, the things I enjoy seeing and the things I secretly do!”

    But Thomas worshipped Jesus as God (Jn 20:28).
    Jesus, if you carefully read the Bible, did not give you the option of calling him merely as a good man. He is, as CS Lewis put it, “Liar, Lunatic or Lord!” He is (as I put it): “Deceiver, Dumbo or The Divine!” The choice is yours. If you call Jesus by a nice neutral sounding name, you are still calling him by a negative name because you are diplomatically negating his claims to be unique (John 14:6 – “I am the way, the truth and the Life!”).

    Jesus could not be a Deceiver. Even his worst enemies could not find a single sin in him. He was not a lunatic or a Dumbo. He acted normally. He screamed in pain as he was hammered to the Cross. He felt bad when one of close pals betrayed him. Jesus wasn’t mad. He wasn’t bad. He was God. The Only One. So, that leaves us with only one option: Jesus is what he claimed to be: the only way to Heaven, the only incarnate God in Flesh, the only Savior of the whole World!

    What should you do right now if it was true that Jesus is really unique (as this article has pointed out)? Basically, two things. Let me elaborate: First, you need to LEAVE. That is you need to leave your life of sin. Jesus preached, “Unless you repent, you too will perish (in everlasting hell)!” (Luke 13:1-5). Second, you need to BELIEVE. You need to believe that Jesus, God in Human Flesh, died instead of you on the Cross, as the Bible says He did. “Yet to all those who received Him, to those who believed in His name He gave them the right to become the children of God,” we read in the Bible (John 1:12). When you do that – believe in Jesus with all your heart and confess your sins to Him – the sinless spotless blood of Jesus will forgive you of every sin and give you a peace which the world cannot give you ever!

    Why not then pray this prayer right away: “Dear Lord Jesus. I am sorry for my sins. Please forgive me. I am LEAVING my terrible sins and BELIEVING in you as my only Savior. Wash me with your blood and make me a new person completely. I will serve you with all my heart hereafter. So be it!”

    Do not forget the following things: Get yourself a copy of the Bible and read it daily. Talk to the Lord Jesus daily in prayer. Join a fellowship where the Bible is taught. Share with as many people as possible about the Lord Jesus, through your life and lips.

    (Duke Jeyaraj is the founder of Grabbing the Google Generation from Gehenna Mission, a ministry to presentday people supported by Indians blessed by his messages and articles. Find out more atwww.dukev.org or by liking www.facebook.com/googleduke).

  • SINCERE BELIEF IN JUST ANYTHING AND PUTTING ONE'S FAITH ON JUST ANYONE IS NOT NICE – ASK THE FOLKS AT NICE, A FRENCH CITY HIT BY TERROR

    – Duke Jeyaraj

    #Nice Terror Truck Driver told cops he was carrying ice-cream in his truck (see this pic from The New Indian Express, July 16, 2016). And the cops kind of believed him. This was the result: he actually had stuff in his truck that made people scream – two Kalashnikovs, bullets and a grenade. 80plus, including 10kids we killed shortly after the police sincerely believed his lie. Sincere belief in any person or philosophy, without the necessary truth verification, can be dangerous. We need to strive, search and find the truth and believe in the truth. Jesus claimed to be ‘the truth’ and gave proofs for it – his sinless life and accurate prophecy-fulfilment – are two just of the multiple proofs he gave for his stunning claims (to be the only way to Heaven, to lasting happiness, etc). Instead of sincerely believing what is wrong and ending up in untold danger, let us believe in Jesus who died for each one on the Cross to offer forgiveness from sin, inner-lasting peace.

    (Find out more about the author of this article Duke Jeyaraj and the ministry he founded called G4 Mission at www.dukev.org)

  • SCHOOL-BAGS, SINCERITY AND 26/11 MUMBAI ATTACKS

    – Dr. Duke Jeyaraj

    Bharat Tamore. Bharat Tamore who? Bharat Tamore, a steward at the Taj Hotel, Mumbai who lived in the sea-facing village at Bhadwar Park, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai. At 9:30 pm on 26 November 2008 he saw 10 young men who were unloading massive school bags and huge carry bags at the shore from a yellow speedboat. When he questioned them they said they were students (Story from “People Special Edition” Mag, Dec 2008, page 23). And Tamore believed what they said with sincerity of heart. But they those guys were not students. They were the TERRORISTS who just coolly walked in different directions of Mumbai, shooting people on the streets, the Main Railway Station, a Hospital and a couple of Five Star Hotels with impunity and gay abandon. Sincerely believing in what is not true can prove to be very dangerous, as we can understand from the above event. Instead of believing in the Truth, Jesus Christ, if we sincerely believed in our own wrong philosophy or religion, we would be greater danger – the greater danger of going to eternal, ever-burning hell. The Bible says, “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:16; 16:25). That means that way we sincerely believe to be true to save us can be wrong and that wrong belief can land in big trouble ultimately! Who is the true way then? Jesus Christ! He said, “I am the way, the truth and the life!” (John 14:6). The Apostles took Jesus at his word and preached that there was no other name to be saved (Acts 4:12).

    (Duke Jeyaraj is the founder of Grabbing the Google Gen from Gehenna Mission, the G4 Mission, a ministry to present day people. Find out more at www.dukev.org or by liking www.facebook.com/googleduke).

  • A BOTTLE OF USED-FOR-EMBALMING-DEAD-BODIES FORMALDEHYDE AS A GIFT FOR A NEW BORN BABY? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! DEAD BODIES OF JAYALALITHAA, LENIN & THE GIFTS THE BETHLEHEM BABY JESUS GOT!!!

    -Dr. Duke Jeyaraj

    There are several controversies that surrounded the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Suman Priya Mendonca, writing for AsiaNet News website on 9 December 2016 talked about one such controversy: “Controversies around Jayalalithaa’s death refuse to subside. Four dots found on Jaya’s face strengthen the theory that her body was embalmed which means she died much before December 5, 2016. Embalming is a process that can prevent a dead body from decomposing for over 60 days.” Soviet Leader Valdimir Lenin died in January 1924. But his body is available for the public to behold even after 90 plus years. In April 2016, the Moscow Times, May 5 2016 issue announced via a Daria Litvinova article, “the Federal Guard Service – which looks after all grounds near the Kremlin, including the mausoleum Lenin is kept in – announced for the first time that the costs for the “medical and biological works to maintain Lenin’s body” would amount to 13 million roubles ($197,000) in 2016.” I figured out from Google that formaldehyde is used to embalm, preserve dead bodies!

    Imagine someone giving a new born baby a bottle of formaldehyde! That would be grossly inappropriate! Who would want to give a gift that reminds everyone about death in the happy event of a new born baby?! In the case of the birth of Jesus Christ, something similar happened. One of the wise men from the East gave Jesus “myrrh” as a gift (Matt. 2:11). Myrrh was the formaldehyde of those days (in my opinion) and was “a traditional incense used at funerals during Biblical times” according to Bible Scholars. That particular wise man who chose the gift of Myrrh for the baby Jesus perhaps knew from the Old Testament he read that Jesus was born to die. The Son given who was called Prince of Peace (which Isaiah 9:6 talks about) also was going to be the lowly servant who would take on the “Punishment that brings us peace” (which Isaiah 53:5 talks about)! Yes, Jesus was born to die! Born to die for you and me! This Jesus would go onto live a sinless life – no one else ever did this – and become a sinless, perfect sacrifice for sinful you and me! He was eventually crucified on a cross. Without shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins, the Bible tells us (Heb. 9:22). And there is no blood, without a human body. And that’s why, Jesus basically and in-effect said, “Give me a body! I will get into it! I will get into a human body you have prepared for me, Father, so that I can offer it to shed blood to save humans! The Animal Sacrifices of the Old Testament can at best cover for sin temporarily! But I will bring about an arrangement to cleanse people from sin forever as long as they remain in a relationship with me!” This he in-effect said in a meeting in Heaven dated eternity past (Read Hebrews 10:5-6). Then Jesus entered the womb of virgin Mary during the First Christmas two thousand years ago. As Max Lucado wrote, “God was given eyebrows, elbows, two kidneys, and a spleen. He stretched against the walls and floated in the amniotic fluids of his mother.” Leonard Vander Zee wrote, “The incarnation of Christ means that God now has a belly-button – that mark which signalled that he was once inside the womb of a woman!” While Matthew and Luke needed two full chapters to tell the Christmas story, Apostle John summarized Christmas in just three words: “Word became Flesh” (John 1:14). And we know from John 1:1, the “Word” he was talking about was “God.” So Christmas is about “God becoming Flesh!” As the Hymn-writer put it: “The Word of the Father, now in Flesh appearing…oh come let us adore him!” The sinless living body of Jesus in the Cradle of Bethlehem stable and went all the way to the Cross of Calvary on Golgotha Hill to become that perfect sin-sacrifice. Jesus rose from the Dead. He will return again to Judge the world. Those who remain “in him” will not be condemned to eternal hell, but will live with him forever in eternal heaven (Romans 8:1; John 15; Rev. 21:7-8). This is what the Bible teaches. Would you turn from sin and put your faith in this Jesus? Then you have “peace” (Luke 2:14) and “great joy” (Luke 2:10) which the world cannot give and the Devil cannot take away!!

    (Dr. Duke Jeyaraj is the founder of Grabbing the Google Gen from Gehenna Mission, a ministry to present day people that is reader/listener/viewer supported. Find out more at www.facebook.com/googleduke and at www.dukev.org).

  • IF ONLY….

    -Duke Jeyaraj’s poem on the India-West Indies World T20 SemiFinal on 31 Mar 2016 in Wankhade Stadium in Mumbai which West Indies won with a message at the end

    If only, had Indian Captain Dhoni won the toss,
    India would have perhaps chased and shown they were this match’s boss,
    If only, had the explosive Rohit Sharma, the 20 overs batted through,
    India may’ve scored much more in their 20, and perhaps made it through!
    If only Indian batsmen had tried to clear the ropes, rather than run the twos,
    They would have had set a steeper target, that would not make them lose!
    If only Ashwin/Pandya hadn’t converted their wicket-taking balls into no-balls,
    There was no question of match-winner Simmons getting those umpire recalls!
    If only Jadeja hadn’t touched the boundary rope while catching that Simmons’ rocket,
    Who knows – Dhoni could have well had this super semi-final in his pocket,
    If only India had played all-rounder Pawan Negi, instead of the pure-batsmen Manish Pandey,
    Dhoni would’ve had better options to turn to, when his regular bowlers’ bowling was in total disarray!
    If only, Ashwin instead of Kohli, had bowled the last over – he had two still left,
    May be, he, like he proved in the Champions Trophy 2013 Final, for India, could have been a cleft!

    While the “if only” of the cricket field doesn’t ultimately matter much,
    The “if only” of our spiritual lives – can be the difference between eternal heaven and ever-lasting hell – as such!

    “If only you would come to me to right now”, Jesus, in-effect said in Luke 19:42 in the Bible,
    “Your life’s peace will be eternal and it won’t be fickle as a bubble!”
    If only, you come to God-in-flesh Jesus in repentance and faith now,
    Your life – even amidst the trials – will become meaningful, joyous and wow!

    (Duke Jeyaraj is the founder of Grabbing the Google Generation from Gehenna Mission, a ministry to presentday people supported by those who are blessed by his messages and articles. Find out more by visiting www.dukev.org or liking www.facebook.com/googleduke).

  • 19 NEEDED OFF SEVEN & HEAVEN!


    -(A Duke Jeyaraj poem on the West Indies – England World T20 Final 2016 played in Eden Gardens Kolkata on 3 April, 2016 with a Wow News at the end)

    After a dot ball with 19 needed off 7, would the Windies rise from the ashes like a phoenix?

    Carlos Brathwaite answered that question, in that nail-biting final over, hitting a six, six, six and a six!

    The problems the West Indies had in over-hauling England’s fighting 155, he did miraculously fix!

    Six over deep backward square, Six over long on – they were all there in the marvellous six mix!

    Bowler Ben Stokes slumping in disappointment post each brutal shot – that made a sad pix!

    “The only team to win the World T20 twice” – for the Windies that was new prefix!

    Post this Surreal Final Captain Sammy talked about praying to Living One on the crucifix!

    Jesus’ great Calvary-demonstrated love for us, sinners – nothing on earth can nix!

    If you come to Jesus now, this will be yours: a joy nothing can ever eclipse!

    (Duke Jeyaraj, the author of this poem, is the founder of Grabbing the Google Generation from Gehenna Mission, the G4 Mission. Find out more by visiting www.dukev.org or liking www.facebook.com/googleduke).

  • NEERJA BHANOT DID NOT CHOOSE IMMEDIATE ESCAPE THROUGH THE PAN AM FLIGHT 73’S EMERGENCY EXIT’S CHUTE; JESUS CHRIST DID NOT CHOOSE TO ESCAPE THE CRUEL CROSS ON GOOD FRIDAY

    – Dr. Duke Jeyaraj

    It was a heart-stopping event that was the talk of the then-world. The day was September 5, 1986. Neerja Bhanot was the head-turning head purser of Pan Am Flight 73 to New York from Mumbai. Just 22 years of age was this gutsy beauty. She was to celebrate her birthday on September 7th.
    Enroute to New York, this flight was to stop at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan and later on in Frankfurt, Germany. It was around 4:30 a.m. when the flight landed in Karachi. What a stop for re-fuelling became a spot for terrorist-boarding!

    This is what happened: Four Palestinian terrorists menacingly came towards the flight dressed in airport security uniforms. As the flight’s door was opened in the business class side, these terrorists managed to enter the flight even as the last passengers from Karachi were boarding. They carried submachine guns and grenades.

    Neerja had the presence of mind to move swiftly near the phone inside the flight and call the Pilot and the cockpit crew (the co-pilot and the flight engineer). “Hijack,” she muttered and the three people inside the cockpit escaped through a hatch-way in the roof. The flight was now effectively frozen – immobilised. With the Pilot and team having scooted from the plane, the terrorists’ plan to fly the plane to Cypress and demand for the release of Palestinian prisoners being held there went for a toss. The cockpit crew logic was this: “When the pilots abandon the plane, the plane becomes an unattractive object for hijacking.”

    For the next seventeen hours, the plane stood in the airport under the control of the armed terrorists – “emotionally surcharged burly terrorists” (as Neerja’s dad, a journalist, would write later on). That’s when Neerja, the senior-most flight official inside the plane, stayed cool, calm and collected. She made announcements on behalf of the terrorists. Her smiles amidst the storm was like a breath of fresh air for the scared-to-death passengers. It offered them hope of rescue.

    Neerja knew that the terrorists meant business when they shot dead Rajesh Kumar, the 29-year-old Indian American who was sitting in one of the front seats when the plane’s pilots did not return even after their repeated requests and warnings. When she overheard the terrorists’ plan to kill American passengers in that plane of 379 terrified passengers one by one, till the pilots returned to the flight, she came up with a plan. She and her crew members hid the passports of the American passengers by dropping the passports on the ground and pushing them under the seats as they were in the terrorists-assigned jobs of collecting all the passenger passports.

    After the power inside the flight failed because of fuel exhaustion, the flight was plunged into darkness with the hijack drama entering into the seventeenth hour having begun early in the morning. That’s when the terrorists themselves got terrorized, knowing the Pakistani forces inside the airport could now engage them in combat at any second. They started shooting the passengers and hurling hand grenades indiscriminately. Their plan – it was very clear – was to kill as many passengers as possible.
    That’s when Neerja swung into action and flung open one of the emergency doors of the flight. She could have easily been the very first to exit the plane by rolling out of the ballooning slanting cushion from the plane to the ground (the chute). But instead of choosing the chute she chose to help children – three of them. Yes, she bravely chose to stay back guiding frantic and ducking passengers to that emergency exit. Neerja used her body to shield three children inside the flight even as she guided them to the exit door’s chute. She received atleast three bullet wounds – on the abdomen, the shoulder and on her arm (her dad writes). Around 20 passengers died and 120 were injured in the mayhem unleashed by the terrorists. Neerja too died. But not before rescuing those children and many other passengers.

    Just as Neerja chose the safety of the still-inside-the-flight children before the chute-escape, Jesus Christ, the only God-in-flesh, chose to love and save you and me, instead of escaping the cruel cross – the only way that was available for our salvation. Jesus’ disciple, Peter, suggested that Jesus skip the cross – the cruel punishment that was reserved for the worst of scoundrels of that time – some two thousand years ago (Matthew 16:22-28, The Bible). Yet, Jesus chose to march towards Jerusalem to be crucified on a cross, the Bible, God’s Word in human words, records (Luke 9:51).

    Jesus was beaten till his back looked like plowed field. He was nailed to a rugged cross. They taunted Jesus while he hung there. “Come down from the Cross”, they sneered (Matthew 26:40). He could have. He had the power to. Certainly. Rusty nails cannot hold all-powerful God to a Cross, can they? Yet, he stayed on. He died. Why? He died for each one of us. On Good Friday. “God demonstrates his own love for us in this – while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!” – this the Bible teaches (Romans 5:8).
    Unlike Neerja, Jesus was sinless (In the 2016 gripping movie, Neerja, some of the imperfections of Neerja are shown in a lighter vein: she doesn’t eat the food packed for her by her dear mom at her workplace, she carelessly forgets to wear a ring her mom asked her to…). Unlike you and me, Jesus was spotless. We have ALL sinned, the Bible declares (Romans 3:23). The wages of sin is death, which is to ultimately burn in hell. This is the prediction of the Bible, a book which has never gone wrong in its hundreds of predictions of the future (Revelation 21:7,8; Romans 6:23).

    Make no mistake here: Jesus wasn’t dying for his own sin like we all deserve to. One of the thieves crucified next to Jesus realized this and said: “We rightly deserve to die. But Jesus has done nothing wrong” (Luke 23: 39-43, The Bible). Jesus never committed any sin. His close relatives, his best friends and his worst enemies could not find a single sin in him, the Bible records (Matthew 3:14; John 8:46; I John 3:5).

    Jesus Christ died as a sin-substitute for each one of our sakes (Isaiah 53:5, The Bible). Because he was 100 % God infinite, he could die for an infinite number of people of all times and ages (Hebrews 9:28, The Bible).

    Because he was 100 % humans as well (born of virgin Mary), he could die as a substitute for you and me – members of the human race (I Peter 3:18, The Bible).

    Thanks to his precious blood, each one of us can receive forgiveness of sin, the Bible declares (Hebrews9:14). But we must repent from sin and put our trust in him to receive this life-purpose-giving forgiveness, the Bible teaches (Acts 2:38).

    Jesus invites you with these loving words: “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest!” (Matthew 11:28, The Bible). Are you ready to come to Christ?

    Don’t delay your coming to Jesus. Here’s why: the Jesus who died, rose from the dead and said he would come again as Judge of all the earth, at any second (Revelation 1:7; 16:15, The Bible). He is the only Savior who can save you today. Not only that – he is the Judge from whom there is no escape for those who reject him on the final day. At that time, there would be chance for salvation or forgiveness of sin, the Bible reveals (Hebrews 9:27). So, do it now! And when you place your entire trust in Jesus, you will have “joy unspeakable and full of glory” (I Peter 1:8, The Bible). This is what Good Friday is about. This is what Easter is about.

    After you come to Christ and receive his forgiveness: 1) CHEW on the Bible. To read the Bible you could download the free ESV Bible App onto your SmartPhone. 2) CHAT with Christ in prayer. 3) CHECK-INTO a local Bible-believing, Holy Spirit-directed church. 4) CHAMPION Christ’s cause through your life and lips using your time, talents and treasures.

    (This was written by Dr. Duke Jeyaraj, the founder of Grabbing the Google Generation from Gehenna Mission, a ministry to presentday people. Find out more by visiting www.dukev.org and by liking www.facebook.com/googleduke and www.facebook.com/dukebook. You can read more writings of Duke like these at www.purposespot.blogspot.com).

  • WHAT CONSTABLE OMBLE HEROICALLY DID ON 26/11; WHAT JESUS DID FOR YOU AND ME, SIX HOURS ONE FRIDAY

    -Duke Jeyaraj


    The Ram Gopal Verma movie The Attacks of 26/11 chillingly showed how Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police, Tukaram Gopal Omble, a family man and a father of four daughters, armed with just a baton took on the dreaded terrorist Ajmal Kasab in a Mumbai road on 26.11.2008. Kasab acted as if hewas dead when the police fired into the hi-jacked silver color Skoda car he and his accomplice were riding on towards a checkpost. Kasab’s accomplice died in the firing. When Omble daringly took the lead to open the Skoda car door, Kasab suddenly started to move menacingly. Omble acted quickly to catch hold of the barrel of Kasab’s AK47 rifle with both hands. Kasab, in retaliation, opened fire. A spray of bullets entered Omble’s stomach and intestines. Omble tightly held onto the barrel of Kasab’s AK 47 and would not simply let go of it till he breathed his last. This brave act forcefully prevented Kasab’s AK47 – a machine that he had mercilessly used to kill innocent people in the Mumbai CST Railway Station and the Cama Hospital just minutes before this event – from firing at anyone else. Omble died but he gave the police forces enough time to reach the terrorist and catch him alive. Kasab, part of a team of 10 terrorists who entered Mumbai that day, was the only terrorist to be captured alive (Story reconstructed using various news websites). Omble sacrificed his life for many Mumbaikars who did not even know him that day.

    Omble’s sacrificial act somewhat typifies what Jesus did for us in an imperfect way. He died a cruel death for each one of us when we were still sinners and far away from him enjoying the temporary pleasures of sin, the Bible teaches (Heb. 11:25; Rom. 5:8, The Bible). The punishment that brings us peace was upon him when he hung on the Cross, the Bible declares (Isa 53:5, The Bible). Our backs should have been whipped as a punishment for the sins of our body – be that over-eating or masturbation coupled with porn-watching or any other unprintable sin. But Jesus took that punishment upon his own back. Strong-armed Arnold Schwarzenegger-like Roman Soldiers whipped Jesus’ back 39 times with leather belts that had broken bone and nail pieces embedded on them. As a result his back was lacerated and looked like a plowed field in accordance to a Bible prophecy – just one of over 110 major prophecies that Jesus fulfilled during his earthly life (Micah 3:12, The Bible). He loves us so very madly that he himself took upon his body, the punishment for our sins meant for our body (I Peter 2:24, The Bible). Because Jesus is 100% God who in turn is beyond the dimension of time he could die for all humans of all times. Because He is 100% human (even while he was 100% God) he could become the substitute for every human being. As the Bible puts it, “Jesus loved us and gave himself for us” (Gal. 2:20, The Bible). No one could have loved us the way Jesus did! No one loves us the way Jesus does. And what is more – Jesus came back to life, a feat that points to the fact that he is God and he is above everyone in the long line of self-proclaimed gods, so records the Bible (Rom. 1:4, The Bible).

  • THE “STAR” WHO WON’T DISAPPOINT EVER UNLIKE INDIA'S BATTING STARS!

    Duke Jeyaraj put key moments of the India-Australia World Cup SemiFinal in Sydney on 26th March 2015 in poetry with an interesting thought at the end

    Virat Kohli is undoubtedly World Cricket’s Biggest Batting Star,

    His multiple, mind-boggling, batting feats keeps raising the bar,

    Batting first, the Aussies had in this knock-out game posted a total above par,

    Kohli took guard when India’s target of 329, despite the brisk 70+ opening partnership, was still very far,

    A menacingly-paced, match-winning 150 would Kohli score in that India-Australia World Cup semifinal war?

    After such a stupendous knock would he blow kisses to Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma, his girl yaar?

    Those were the sky-rocketing expectations Indian fans had about their Batting Caesar.

    Like my daughter, who unable to resist temptation, would often reach for the Nutella jar,

    He fished outside the off-stump for balls from which he should have stayed afar,

    His batting tempo appeared far slower than what he drove during the TV ad break: the car,

    Pretty soon, the Aussie keeper easily caught an edge from his pull-attempting bat without a scar!

    With Rohit and Raina following him soon in a whimper, India’s World Cup Celebration cake did char!

    Rahane was out when his snick, notwithstanding the deafening crowd noise, caught Steven Smith’s alert ear,

    Maxwell’s direct hit caught short of the crease, India’s lone late warrior that night, Dhoni, the czar,

    “In Sydney, the Indian batting became a chutney!” – this, the creative critics did roar,

    It’s true all human heroes will at some point disappoint us: they are all hit by the sin tar,

    A vacuum in the heart results and that can’t be filled-in by that cute chudithar or the latest cellular,

    But know that God-in-flesh, Christ, died on the Cross for everyone – the beggar to the zamindar,

    And we need to come in repentance and faith to the Christ, whom the Bible calls, “the Bright Morning Star!”

  • DHONI’S DREAM LEG-SIDE CATCH; THE FLIGHT BACK HOME THAT BANGLADESH HAD TO CATCH; AND AN IMPORTANT GOODNEWS TO CATCH…

    Duke Jeyaraj puts in poetry the India-Bangladesh World Cup 2015 Quarter Final in Melbourne on 19 March with an important message at the end.

    Will Bangladesh Tigers stop the Indians in the World Cup quarters?

    Well that was the burning question for the starters!

    Rohit Sharma’s elegant first-ball four beat the boundary riders,

    But Virat’s early dismissal did give India the early jitters,

    Roebel’s ugly send-off only fell on Kohli’s deliberately deaf ears!

    Raina showed the MCG crowd why he is one of the game’s biggest hitters,

    Rohit not given out when he was on 90 was one of the Umpire’s blunders,

    His caressed big shots after reaching his 100 took their attack to the cleaners,

    Jadeja’s late flourish ensured that India crossed 300 and sent Victory feelers!

    Tamin’s early aggression implied that Bangladesh wanted to reach their target in 40 overs,

    But he edged one to Dhoni and the Indian bowlers were back to their business of being run-chokers,

    Jadeja’s brilliant fielding and throw-in made the batsmen in the middle look like jokers,

    Memmudullah ‘s skier was taken by Dhawan as if to show that he had no butter fingers,

    The way Bangladesh’s best player Shakib batted, it looked like he was in a hurry to become one of the Melbourne-Dhaka flight passengers,

    Umesh’s right-on-the-money’s spell left the Bangladesh innings in tatters,

    Over the hapless Bangladeshis went mercilessly over, the Dhoni’s bulldozers!

    The win marked Captain Dhoni’s 100 ODI win – said the statistics-informed cheer leaders!

    —-
    This image from this game remained with me: Dhoni diving to take an seemingly impossible leg-side catch,

    This image also reminded me of Jesus, God-in-flesh who dived into Mary’s womb to snatch,

    Human beings on the road to eternal hell, and a possibility for their soul’s salvation through his death on the Cross, hatch!

    When you repent and put your faith in this Jesus, you join the heaven-headed batch!