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"Love killed her soul; her body seeks revenge" - so goes the movie poster punchline for VIKRAM BHATT'S, Hate Story, as I discovered from newspaper ads. The 'her' referred to in this movie poster punchline is actress Paoli Dam. Starting from Paoli Dam, we can learn a lesson from the Bible about the damnation of the soul! Shocked? Let me elaborate. Even the makers of movies of the cadre a Christ-follower would consciously avoid, like the HATE STORY, surprisingly, concede that humans have a soul - not just a body. We have a soul, because we are made in the image of God who too has a soul. "My soul is well-pleased!" so said the God of the Bible about the sinless life of only incarnate Son, Jesus - the Bible records (Math 12:18). Yes, all of us have a soul! This soul, the Bible declares, will go on living forever (Eccl 3:11). We can gain the whole world, and yet forfeit the soul, Jesus, God-in-flesh warned (Mk 8:36). Nothing can be given in exchange for the soul, ever, Jesus taught (Math 16:26). Not the diamonds of South Africa. Not the cars of Germany. Not the cheap thrills that come in viewing movies like HATE STORY. Just nothing. Without a living, daily, deep relationship with Jesus, our soul and body will be consigned to eternal hell - this is the declaration of Jesus who always spoke the truth (Math 10:28). Jesus' question to all who are reading this is this: if your soul is required of you tonight, where will it spend eternity (Lk 12:20)? If you not sure of the answer, repent and come to the one whose 'soul was troubled' because of our sinful deeds (John 12:27). Come to the one who went to Gethsemane garden being 'sorrowful in his soul' and eventually to the Cross of Calvary for our sakes, and for our sins (Math 26:38). Come to the one whose 'soul was not abandoned to death' but rose again from the death - the only one to do so (Acts 2:27). Come to Jesus. Come now. After you have come to Him, start to love Him 'with all your soul' - which is his greatest command (Math 22:37). And, by his power overcome temptations that will come your way, live holy. Start reading his word, the Bible and start talking to him in prayer. Join a Bible-believing fellowship. Witness for him, through your life and lips. Then, when Jesus comes back the second time to this planet as judge, you will be "kept blameless in your body, soul and spirit" (I Thess 5:23).
Bob Smithhouser writes that there were two types of 'gaping holes' in Titanic - one, was the actual hole that came into being when this ship banged into an iceberg and the other type of hole was a MORAL hole! When one wears Bible glasses to analyze this movie based on what is written about it, you will find that we ignore those moral holes to our peril.
named the innings in which he made 180 runs when India followed on versus Australia in a Test Match Eden Gardens, Kolkota, in year 2001. The partnership he put up with VVS Laxman who made 281 in the same innings brought India back, sensationally, in that game. For a whole day Dravid and Laxman played without getting out! Eventually India won that Test Match. Jesus entered yet an another garden - the Garden of Gethsemane - hoping to build another kind of partnership, the partnership of prayer (Mt 26:36-46: Mk 14:32-42; Lk 22:40-46; John 18:1). 
Only Matthew records that Jesus wanted BOTH the MOTHER DONKEY and it's COLT (the Kid Donkey) (Mt 21:2). A person would be sitting on the back of that untrained colt for the first ever time, it looks like. Therefore, Jesus perhaps felt the presence of the parent would calm the colt's nerves when a person (Jesus) sat on it. Do we cooperate with God's plan for our kids the whole-hearted way this MOTHER DONKEY apparently did with Jesus' plans for it's kid donkey? Parents should encourage their born-again children to serve God. Parents do not ask generally kids, "Is it God's Will?" when their kids say, "I want to go to the US to study and settle down there!" But when their kids say, "Mom/Dad, God has called me for full-time ministry to such and such a place in India itself!" most parents pour cold water on their enthusiasm by asking, "Are you sure, it is God's will?" What a wicked double standard! How we show step-motherly treatment for the things of God! The Lord is watching this with deep sorrow and anguish. His anger may be triggered by our worldliness and money-mindedness. The message that comes to us from the Palm Sunday Matthew narrative is this: encourage the younger generation in your family to get involved in God's Work, whole-heartedly!
Aishwariya Rai talked about it – a vacuum in her heart. She told the press once, “You know as Miss World, I was suddenly exposed to so much that after that year was over, there was a vacuum!” (The Times of India, 20 October 1999). Telugu language movie star, Venkatesh admitted to Y. Sunitha Chowdhary, a journalist, this empty feeling inside the soul: “A stage in my career came when a series of films of mine became hits. We went on a victory tour and when thousands of people were rooting for me I remained unaffected. It hit me that I wasn’t being carried away. That calm and silence was confusing. Despite my successful career and personal life I could sense something amiss. It was spiritual unrest…” (The Hindu, Friday Review, 13 January 2006). A news magazine reported that in the leading engineering colleges group in India – the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) – there were 8 suicides in 2011 taking the count only till the month of October (The Week, October 31, 2011). This particular issue reported that Nitin Kumar Reddy, a student of IIT Chennai, sent an email as a suicide note to his parents and “hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room after he got a semester extension.” It seemed as if he had done this inspired by what happened in the movie 3 Idiots (Hindi)/Nanban (Tamil) where a student in a similar situation commits suicide. In heads so full of intelligence, it was shocking to note, were traces of emptiness – emptiness so haunting that it triggered the tragic self-ending of lives! He had a dream job with a great company. Who? This United States based Analytics Engineer who worked for companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo. He was not in the danger of being fired. But did you know what Devan Kalathat, the person we are talking about here, did one fine day? He turned the gun on five of his family members including his 11-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter and finally killed himself (www.huffingtonpost.com, 1 April 2009). Devan, felt so empty despite a dream job in an advanced country, that he felt compelled to empty bullets onto the bodies of his own babies! 
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