TCONEWS ADMINJuly 20, 2018
Riot of laughter followed every dose of spiritual enrichment administered by the king of comedy in Bollywood, Johnny Lever. His talk on ‘Enriching Life Through Laughter’ at the Vishnudas Bhave auditorium in Vashi on June 8, 2013 organized by The Christian Observer (TCO) www.tconews.com, India’s 1st Christian Newspaper since 2000 inspired the predominantly assembled youth to realize and channelize their energies in the right direction with hundred per cent faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and themselves.
“Our problem is – we feel empty, when in fact God has made each one of us very beautiful and strong. The devil makes us weak and small. I assure you that nobody is bigger than you” stating so Johnny Lever began the session with an apologue. ‘An adamant child insists and compels his father to take him to the village fair. The poor father having no money agrees on condition that the child will not demand to buy anything in the fair. Soon after reaching the fair the child irritatingly demands the various delicacies being sold there. Suddenly the child is lost in the crowd, cannot find his father and starts crying loudly. People try to pacify him by offering all the delicacies that he had been demanding from his father a short while ago. The child refuses and insists on wanting his father only’. So too, stressed Johnny Lever, that even after getting everything we want in the material world, there will always be a void, which only The Lord, our Creator alone can fill and 2000 years ago He sent His son, Jesus, to fill this void.
The comedian preacher stunned the audience with a new syllabus of what the alphabets A to Z stand for in the new digital world, from A for Apple, B for Blackberry……I for Internet, J for Joystick…. to Y for Youtube and Z for zip file. He admitted that he was a living witness to the Love of the Lord, which never deserted him, ever since he could remember as a child. “I talked to the Lord and He talked to me. I did not tell anybody as no one would believe me. When I began going to the church, a relationship with the Almighty grew and it was humbling and a great source of strength. Do not take pride on your intelligence, strength and riches.
Take pride in your understanding and knowing the Lord”, Johnny Lever stated. Narrating parables and own life experiences Johnny Lever emphasized the need to stay away from the arrogance of having ministerial and bureaucratic contacts as these positions are temporary. He said that instead one should make good place in one’s heart for a permanent relationship with the Lord. Preaching to live with heavenly wisdom, he called upon the youth to shun greed and to put hundred per cent effort in whatever vocation they are into.
He assured the gathering that if they had true and complete faith in the Lord they could do much more than what he could achieve. Stating that he had seen very few people really happy in-spite of material success, Johnny Lever extolled the virtues of enriching the soul, enlarging oneself from the inside by loving one’s enemies and neighbors. Quoting Jesus he said that when one repents for one’s wrongs, life changes for the better. ‘Keeping the family happy, serving parents and elders will bring light and blessings to your home. Follow the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and do not give the devil a chance to shake the foundations of your Divinity, your relationship with the Creator’, Johnny Lever advised in his inspirational talk.
Johnny Lever prayed for and blessed ‘DISHA’, an NGO initiative by TCO in association with several other youth organizations like Goa Youth Christian Welfare Association and Joshua Generation, to channeling the youth in the right direction.
