Twisting and turning in my bed, i decided to step out and get a tea @8pm this night. Just then i heard some partying going on around in my hostel. The music was loud and people were making merry. It was a UG send-off party. As i went down towards the road, i noticed many other hostellers walking towards that party and at that moment i was the only one walking away from it and towards the road with my earphones on, listening to this :

https://youtu.be/8jb5N-9zsbg?si=zhrxpNAks1siRjLB

That’s when this verse hit me.

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, He is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold all things have become new.” - 2 Cor 5:17.

So i sat with my tea…

…thinking what had changed. Trying to reason with my odd behavior. Could it be…. just that i wasn’t interested in that party? Or could it be that, i’m just not a ‘party-person’? Maybe,… but that doesn’t explain the sorrowful burden and crying detestation i had towards that party. The songs played in the party were promoting alcoholism, ‘live-today-die-tomorrow’ attitude, violence & lewdness. But for some reason i felt i could see through it all…. What drew a natural human being, did not draw me. But instead of having just a dislike/disinterest towards it, i saw myself thinking spiritually for their souls. Their lost nature. And that how lost a soul could go and how blind a soul could get, if there is no Christ in one’s life.

                            There is a divide. There is a contrast. I, once a ‘party-loving-prankster-a try to fit in-please all’ person, see this change now within me. And a constant ingredient i see from that point A to point B in my life is God’s word! 

                            He has truly done what He had claimed that His word would do! 

                                                 Sometimes Iam tempted to attribute this change of heart to my own soulical growth/life experience/worldly wisdom. But thanks to God! He has shown me the true wicked sinful nature of my own heart, which just absolutely and thoroughly indulges in sin, if it gets an opportunity to. That’s why i choose to consider this matter in the light of the scripture.

                                   This all brings me to one conclusion. There is a reason I’m walking against the tide. And that reason is not to be attributed to my goodness. This change in Interest, this rise of sorrow for the lost, this eager anticipation of Christ’s millennial rule. It is all because of the heart which ‘**i received’** from Ezekiel 36:26. 

Christ changes hearts! He is probably ‘The most Silent Heart transplant Surgeon’ :)