DailyDevotion

The Way to Permanent Faith

Indeed the hour is coming…that you will be scattered… —John 16:32

Jesus was not rebuking the disciples in this passage. Their faith was real, but it was disordered and unfocused, and was not at work in the important realities of life. The disciples were scattered to their own concerns and they had interests apart from Jesus Christ. After we have the perfect relationship with God, through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, our faith must be exercised in the realities of everyday life. We will be scattered, not into service but into the emptiness of our lives where we will see ruin and barrenness, to know what internal death to God’s blessings means. Are we prepared for this? It is certainly not of our own choosing, but God engineers our circumstances to take us there. Until we have been through that experience, our faith is sustained only by feelings and by blessings. But once we get there, no matter where God may place us or what inner emptiness we experience, we can praise God that all is well. That is what is meant by faith being exercised in the realities of life.

“…you…will leave Me alone.” Have we been scattered and have we left Jesus alone by not seeing His providential care for us? Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovereignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God?

Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in His blessings, instead of in God Himself. The sense of God’s blessings is fundamental.

“…be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Unyielding spiritual fortitude is what we need.

By Oswald Chambers

At the outset, the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) welcomes you to Nagaland, while rejecting and condemning India’s showcasing Nagaland as part of India. Nagaland went through aggression by India in 1955. Since then Nagaland has been under forced Indian occupation. Given below is an overview of the genesis and chronology of the independent history of Nagaland.

1. Nagas are not Indians and Naga territories are not Indian territories. In the pre-colonial era, these two entities had no connections whatsoever. The colonial rule in South East Asia exposed Nagas to Indians and vice versa.

2. Based on that historical fact, the Nagas submitted a memorandum to the Statutory Commission for India headed by John Simon (Simon Commission) in 1929 by the Naga Club. The memorandum rejected the new reformed scheme for India and asserted for pre-colonial independent status as our future.

3. The Naga National Council (NNC), (the lone authentic Naga political institution established on February 2, 1946), declared the independence of Nagaland on 14th August 1947, a day ahead of India’s independence. The formal declaration was necessitated to assert our position as an independent entity, entirely separate from India and Burma (Myanmar).

4. The NNC conducted a national plebiscite on May 16, 1951. The result was a resounding 99.9% to remain independent. This plebiscite ratified the independence declaration.

5. The Nagas under the leadership and guidance of NNC rejected the republic of India’s first parliamentary election held in 1952. No Naga cast his/her vote as the Nagas were not Indian electorates.

Even in 1957, the republic of India made another desperate attempt to impose her election on Nagas, but Nagas rejected again.

6. The Government of India having failed to apply her constitutional machinery in the form of election for two successive times had concluded that the Nagas could not be subdued by imposing its Constitution, thereby India resorted to military aggression. And the aggression started in 1954 and it turned into total onslaught by 1955.

7. In order to defend the sovereignty of Nagaland from aggression, the NNC established the Federal Government of Nagaland on March 22, 1956. An undeclared war ensued between India and Nagaland. The Indian military atrocities caused much sufferings beyond human imagination. Several draconian laws were imposed in Naga territories of which, the Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA) is still in operation in some parts of Naga territories.

8. In 1960, the Government of India signed a Sixteen Point Agreement with some self-representing non-players under the name, the Naga People’s Convention. This political agreement was signed on the pretext of ending human sufferings on both sides. In reality, the agreement was the best instrument to cover the Indian war crimes on Nagas. The agreement begets the puppet state of Nagaland in the Union of India. The Federal government of Nagaland had nothing to do with the creation of the state and its puppet state government.

9. The creation of the state of Nagaland failed to end the war with the Nagas. Thereby, on September 6, 1964, the Government of India (G01) and the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) signed the Ceasefire agreement as equals regardless of size. By universal convention, it nullified the so-called Sixteen Point agreement and its by¬product, the state of Nagaland in the Union of India.

Since 1964, the Federal Government of Nagaland has honored the peace agreement and pursuing the Indo¬Naga conflict peacefully in consonance with NNC’s nonviolence policy. Regrettably, the Gol has not withdrawn her military from Nagaland

10. The host of B-20 delegates of G20 member countries summit in Kohima is the puppet state government of India. The name of our country ‘NAGALAND’ was coined by the NNC under the legendary leadership of the then NNC President, A. Z. Phizo. Whereas, the signatories of the sixteen point agreement robbed the name to confuse the world

11. Nagaland is under Indian occupation. It has no freedom of its own. Nagas have no liberty to develop Nagaland according to our own genius.

12. The Federal government of Nagaland takes this opportunity to tell Nagaland’s suffering under forced occupation to G20 member countries. Everything is not what seems to be. The FGN has been working in every way possible to free Nagaland from forced occupation by India and Myanmar. The FGN appeals to the G20 member countries to prevail upon the Indian government for withdrawal of her armed forces and its administration from Nagaland. So that, the Nagas can shape their own future and develop its country in its own way.

KUKNALIM.

Shevohu Keyho Killo Kilonser (Home Minister) Federal government of Nagaland

The Naga People are an independent indigenous Nation in assertion to which a peaceful and prior informed Plebiscite was conducted in 1951 that resulted in 99.9% in support of our independent status as declared on the 14th of August 1947.

The Indian armed forces have been occupying our land ever since its military aggression in 1954. Our Nation is militarized and subjected to political and social suppression and most dehumanizing oppression. Left with no option but to defend our political, social, religious and economic rights, we have resorted to confront and resist the occupational military forces of India and Burma. This war has ever since continued in the midst of two “Ceasefire”.

We are subjected to live in constant fear and trauma, which is a never ending-nightmare. Our homes and granaries are vandalized and burned. The armed forces occupy our crop fields, schools, hospitals and make them their camps. Our Churches are desecrated and have been made concentration camps. Our women and daughters are molested and raped. Our wives and daughters are subjected to give birth in public.

Mr. Boutros Boutros

Ghali, the former Secretary General, United Nations, while still holding the Office, had officially acknowledged these violence, destruction, pain and untold sufferings of the Nagas by observing that “there is human rights situation in Nagaland”. Nagas are peace-loving and most humane people with great respect for peaceful coexistence and we courageously defend our dignity as we respect and uphold the dignity of all people exhibited by our great hospitality.