TAKEN

 

After a hectic day at work, I came back home to rest for a while and then go on with my schedule.

I asked my mother to prepare something for me so that I could have a bite and leave. She got up leaving the TV remote on the Couch.

While I was flipping through the channels, I noticed a movie being shown, named 'Taken'.

The title kind off struck a chord within me and I wanted to know what the movie was all about.

Well the movie was about Kim and her friend who leave for Paris for vacations. It so happens that, as they are exit the Paris airport, they meet a stranger who tries to help them with carrying their luggage and taking some snaps. The stranger happens to be part of this gang who kidnap young girls to be sold for prostitution. Eventually the stranger informs his gang and they kidnap these young girls. What follows then is how Kim's father goes in search of his daughter.

 Kim's father fights his way through and at last finds Kim, just moments before she could be forced into prostitution. Since it was the last scene I got up to have a snack. But just before I could turn my eyes away from the TV, I heard the daughter saying, "Dad, you came for me", and then she hugs him. Right at that moment, my heart melted and my eyes watered. 

 

 

It came to my realization that few years back, I said the same words to my Jesus, "You came for me"—even though I had sinned in every possible way and was astray. Even though my own parents, my relatives and friends had given up on me... Yet Jesus never gave up, He came for me. “I was once lost but now I am found."

In Luke Chap 15, in the Parable of the Lost Sheep, God explains how the shepherd leaves his 99 sheep and goes in search for that one LOST sheep.

Today, you might think you've gone too far and have done horrible things. You might be in the deepest of the darkest pit, under the clutches of the Evil One. But don't worry, Jesus is on His way. "He will come for you", He will find you and restore you. He will forgive all your sins and give you a new life.

The fact is that, Jesus always comes for us but how many times have we turned our back on Him. Most of the time there are certain things that prevent us from accepting Jesus.

Intellectual pride, Peer pressure, love for the world, lack of consciousness, perception that it’s boring, Love of Sin and so on … The list is endlessly filled with the many deceptions of the devil. Every time we turn our back on Jesus, irrespective of the reason, we are just yielding to the one of the deceptions of the Devil. Well, how long are we going to stubborn and foolish ??? does not the love of Jesus melt our Heart.

So next time when Jesus Comes to you , will you say “Jesus you came for me “and Hug him …

Just give it a Try … I bet you will not regret it!!! (SIRACH 2:10)