PALM SUNDAY - JESUS' Triumphant Entry into JERUSALEM

Praise The Lord.

So PALM SUNDAY is a Christian Feast which falls on the Sunday before Easter.
This Feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Palm Sunday or the Triumphal Entry Day or The Hosanna Sunday marks the beginning or the First day of the Holy Week.
Holy Week -  The Last week of the Christian Great Lent
Preceding Palm Sunday, Christians observe a 40 Days Lent which Begins on Ash Wednesday and Ends on Holy Saturday, i.e, The day before Palm Sunday.

These 40 days represents the time that Jesus spent in the wilderness resisting the temptation of Satan.

During these 40 days, Christians Fasts, prays, repents, reflect on the Scripture, Think of the acts, ie, Its a time of Self-Examination and Reflection.
They do so in order to prepare their hearts so that when Palm Sunday come, we can joyfully welcome Christ.

One thing I forgot to mention - Why is this Holy Day known as Palm Sunday....
As I mentioned that it commemorates Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the name "PALM" comes from the fact that as Jesus entered into Jerusalem, the People of the City waved palm branches and they placed palm leaves on the ground to Welcome Jesus.
People shouted "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!". Because by that time, many people came to know about Jesus' ministry and his many miracles of healing and good deeds.
He entered the city riding on a young donkey.

There are Three Reasons behind Jesus riding on the back of a Donkey.
The First Reason is prophesized in the Scriptures,
Zechariah 9:9   “Rejoice greatly, people of Jerusalem! Shout for joy, people of Jerusalem! Your king is coming to you. He does what is right, and he saves. He is gentle and riding on a donkey, on the colt of a donkey."
The Second Reason is that, in Ancient Times, "A King rode on a Horse if he was coming for WAR and On a Donkey if coming in Peace."
A Donkey symbolized PEACE in relation to the common people.

The Third Reason to rode on a Donkey was "To convey to the Jewish People that he cared about them - The Everyday People."
Life was HARD Roman Rule. Many suffered from extreme POVERTY, ABUSE  and  ILLNESS.
He came not  as a "KING TO BE SERVED, but as a KING TO SERVE OTHERS." 

 The palm leaves are taken home by the believers, they small cross of it. The remaining palm leaves are burnt in the church premises itself, this depends on various churches. few burn them on during Christmas Eve Mass.
The ashes are then used in the Ash Wednesday the next following year.


God Bless You.

Regards.

The MESSAGE Behind Passion Week

Sometimes reading or hearing the story of the PASSION of Christ is a lot like a puzzle.

We tend to see or hear pieces of the story. We usually get the big picture: Jesus was God and He came to Earth to die as the ultimate payment for our sins. He was buried and three days later He came back to life and walked out of the tomb.

What did Jesus do, why did He do it and what’s our part?

If you are in church for very long you will eventually hear a lot of talks. Many of those sermons will talk about events, illustrations and teachings of Christ that took place during this final week of Jesus’ earthly life.

In fact if you count all of the chapters & verses in the four Gospels (that deal specifically with the life of Jesus) you will find that one-third of the Gospels deal with the last seven days of Jesus ministry.

A lot happens between what we call “Palm Sunday” and Easter Sunday.

Each day is given a specific title to help us uncover what I believe are some major truths from this week.

So, instead of looking at each event separately, let’s look at the overall purpose of each day and see if we can discover why things happened when they did.

The week begins on the Sunday prior to what we now call Easter Sunday. Remember that the Jews worshiped on Saturday, so Sunday would have been the beginning of their work week. However, this week was special because many people were arriving in Jerusalem for the Passover at the end of the week. Jerusalem would swell to maybe ten times it’s normal population during Passover week. It was the biggest celebration of the year.

Sunday is the DAY OF DEMONSTRATION OR RECOGNITION.

What a day it was too. As Jesus arrives outside Jerusalem He climbs onto the back of a young donkey and begins riding into Jerusalem. Crowds begin to form scattering their coats and palm branches onto the ground.

Why? Because the people were honoring Jesus as the Messiah! In the Old Testament book of Zechariah, the prophet declared:

“Rejoice greatly, people of Jerusalem! Shout for joy, people of Jerusalem! Your king is coming to you. He does what is right, and he saves. He is gentle and riding on a donkey, on the colt of a donkey.” ZECHARIAH 9:9

The people shouted, “Blessed is the king of Israel, who is coming in the name of the Lord”. “Hosanna in the highest to the Son of David.”

Hosanna! Literally “Save us now!”

Now, none of that means much to us today – but back then – it meant everything! They were proclaiming that Jesus was the King, their Messiah. They were shouting that Jesus was their Savior, Messiah and they were calling for Him to save them.

Then Jesus stops, and He begins to cry…

“I wish you knew today what would bring you peace…All this will happen because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you.” Luke 19:42,44

Though the religious leaders don’t like what’s happening, it appears that the people are behind Jesus.

That’s what happens on Sunday.

WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH. Words are simply not enough.

I’m amazed that the crowds are cheering for Jesus. The movies always show small groups, but there were thousands there that afternoon as Jesus rode into Jerusalem. From all over Jerusalem they had come and they were cheering for Jesus.

The tragedy is that in just four days many of these same people would be cheering again – not “Hosanna”, but “crucify Him!”.

Remember the scene in the PASSION of the CHRIST where Pilate calls out to the crowd, isn’t this the same man you celebrated a few days ago?”

Within a few days they had turned on Him.

Why? Because words are not enough.

It’s easy to go along with the crowd. It’s a rush to cry out and cheer for the winning team. But it’s entirely different to put your heart, soul and life behind those words.

One of the most practical lessons we can learn from the PASSION week is that words are not enough. What you say is not nearly as important as what you do.

Don’t get me wrong – you should say the right words, but God is looking at our heart attitudes, not our words.

If you will go through Matthew 21:28-32 you will get what God wants. God is not concerned about what we say. He’s concerned about what we do!

We don’t know a lot about Monday of the Passion week. Only three events are recorded in the Gospels.

Monday is the DAY OF PURPOSE.

Each evening Jesus would travel from Jerusalem to Bethany. He might have stayed with His friends Lazarus, Mary and Martha. Quite possibly, He and His disciples could have camped out under the olive groves all over the hillsides on the Mt of Olives where Bethany was located, about two miles from Jerusalem.

Each morning Jesus and His disciples would leave Bethany and make the short walk down the hill across the Kidron Valley and up the hill to Jerusalem. Along the way there were olive and fig groves, vineyards and other types of gardens. It would have been a beautiful walk. Breakfast would have consisted of fresh fruit picked along the way.

Monday morning began with Jesus on this walk with His disciples when He passes a fig tree. But this tree, unlike those around it had no fruit. There were lots of leaves and foliage – but no fruit.

Jesus does something astonishing and drastic. He pronounces a curse on the fig tree.

You can see the related verse in Luke 11:12-14.

The Bible tells us that everyone heard Jesus’ pronouncement. But what was that with so much to think about and look forward too in Jerusalem. So they walked on.

Soon they arrived at the Temple. There Jesus surveyed the scene. Two years before this, the Bible tells us He saw the same thing, people using the Temple to take advantage of people – selling things for sacrifices and doing so at exorbitant prices.

Two years before this day Jesus made a whip and used it to drive out the money changers and merchants. “Don’t turn my Father’s house into a marketplace.” (John 2:16).

It was the same on Monday of the Passion week. Jesus surveyed the same scene and again He knocked over the tables and stalls of stopped everyone from bringing in more merchandise.

Then He taught them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a place of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.” (Mark 11:17)

The Gospels tell us that Jesus then spent the rest of the day in the Temple healing.

Then in Matthew 21:14-15, we can see that Jesus healed the blind, the lame and many others.

Monday was a day of purpose. It started and ended with purpose.

Why did Jesus curse the fig tree? Because it was not fulfilling it’s purpose.

Why did He clear out the Temple? Because they were using the Temple for something other than its purpose. It wasn’t a Trader Spot, it was a place of prayer and sacrifice.

And why did He heal the blind and lame – because that was His purpose.

Monday reminds us that God has a purpose for each of us.

Jesus had arrived at the Passover celebration in Jerusalem with one distinct purpose – to go to the cross. He never lost sight of that purpose. Everything He did was leading to and focused on the cross and the honor and glory that would bring to God the Father.

Tuesday was the busiest of the four days leading to the crucifixion. It was the day Jesus demonstrated His unique authority as God.

These final days of Jesus life were His greatest demonstration of how much He loved us.

Why take the time to go through these final five days leading to the cross?

Because we need to realize once again that words are not enough. It’s not enough to just call Jesus Lord – we have to live each moment with Him.

Because we need to realize our purpose and be willing to live it out to God’s glory.

Because we need to realize and accept Jesus’ authority in our lives. He proved He was worthy of that trust.

Because we need to realize that we don’t know everything.

Because we need to realize how much Jesus loves us. Everything that happens in our lives is preparation for what comes next. If we are willing to listen and follow Jesus and the Holy Spirit we will be prepared for anything.

As I already said that:-

MONDAY is a day of PURPOSE.

TUESDAY is a day of AUTHORITY

WEDNESDAY is a day of SILENCE. (Because as we cannot find any event which took place on this day..)

THURSDAY is a day of PREPARATION..

CONCLUSION :

Now as am concluding my words,  I just want to say that God sent you in this world with a purpose, so don’t do anything different from his plan, if you do so you are letting him down.

So plan and work wisely, in order to achieve success and prosperity.

May the Lord almighty help us to understand the right meaning of the Passion Week, and also try to inculcate some good qualities in ourselves.

Praise The Lord!

Internet of Things(IOT), Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence(AI)

 Internet  of  Things(IOT), Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence(AI)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

In this 21^st Century of Networking and Technology, we are surrounded by various technologies that are linked with the internet, and as we nowadays see home automation systems, smart audio responsive gadgets which make our work a lot easier than before.

These gadgets, systems, and technologies work on IoT, ML, and AI.
You all might be guessing what all abbreviations I have written up there. Many might be knowing, many might be not. So AI stands for "Artificial Intelligence", ML stands for "Machine Learning" and IoT as described earlier stands for "Internet of Things".
So, this was the brief description of what IoT is and what all things it can do.


The definition of the Internet of things has evolved due to the convergence of multiple technologies, real-time analytics, machine learning, commodity sensors, and embedded systems. Now, as we are talking about Real-time analytics, machine learning, and embedded systems lets see what all these are(but lets keep it short).
Real-Time Analytics -----> Analytics is the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data; and the process of applying those patterns towards effective decision making. In other words, analytics can be understood as the connective tissue between data and effective decision making, within an organization. Especially valuable in areas rich with recorded information, analytics relies on the simultaneous application of statistics, computer programming, and operations research to quantify performance.

Machine Learning -----> Machine learning (ML) is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use in order to perform a specific task effectively without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. It is seen as a subset of  artificial intelligence. Machine learning algorithms are used to build a mathematical model based on sample data, known as "training data", in order to make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed to perform the task. Machine learning algorithms are used in a wide variety of applications, such as email filtering, and computer vision, where it is infeasible to develop an algorithm of specific instructions for performing the task. Machine learning is closely related to computational statistics, which focuses on making predictions using computers.

Artificial Intelligence(AI) ----> By the term Intelligence we understand one’s ability to acquire knowledge and skills and make it happen
whenever its required, or, it is also understood as an individual’s capability of collecting information and data. If we talk about Artificial
Intelligence then it’s mostly about giving Human Intelligence processes to a machine, more precisely, A Computer, to do tasks where
there are Chances for Human Error when done for longer duration. These processes include learning (the acquisition of information and
rules for using the information), reasoning (using rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions) and self-correction.
 
Devices or components used for the above Things:Generally ESP8266 is the Low-Cost Wi-Fi Module one can use for IoT project, Arduino for controlling, as well as Raspberry-Pi as a
MicroComputer, further more components can be used according to the Project Needs.
For Further Tutorials and Knowledge about Project Making on IoT and All, follow the below Links:
https://learn.adafruit.com/
https://stackoverflow.com/
https://www.hackster.io/

NEED FOR THIS:
AI - We need Artificial Intelligence (AI) because the work that we need to do is increasing day-to-day. So it’s a good idea to automate the
routine work. This saves the manpower of the organization and also increases the productivity. Additionally, through this Artificial
Intelligence, the company can also get the skilled the persons for the development of the company. If I say about the Marketing and Profit
making scenario, the companies today think that they want to mechanize all the regular and routine work, which will increase their productivity.
ML - Machine learning is needed for tasks that are too complex for humans to code directly. Some tasks are so complex that it is impractical
or if not impossible, for humans to work out and code for them explicitly. So instead, we provide a large amount of data to a machine
learning algorithm and let the algorithm work it out by exploring that data and searching for a model that will achieve what the
programmers have set it out to achieve.
IOT – Benefits of IoT and why one should use it…..More data means better decisions, it means that the maximum amount of sensors or components attached to a particular device will
help to monitor the Device as well as the Surroundings more accurately and effectively.
Ability to track and monitor things, means it will help the people to track small-small things which we miss out in our Day 2 Day
life, e.g., Switching of Fan/Light/AC/etc.
Lighten the workload with automation, who doesn’t wants to live a merry life free from tedious tasks, IoT does it for you,
automatically informing you to.
Increases efficiency by saving money and resources, automation will help in automatic switching off of many devices which will
save energy and consequently will same money.
Better quality of life- when money is saved then way of living and life quality will also enhance.


©SherilThomas 

Analysis of Algorithm

Introduction:-

Analysis of an Algorithm is done in order to estimate the complexity function for arbitrarily large input. The term "analysis of algorithms" was coined by Donald Knuth.

Algorithm analysis is an important part of computational complexity theory, which provides theoretical estimation for the required resources of an algorithm to solve a specific computational problem. Most algorithms are designed to work with inputs of arbitrary length. Analysis of algorithms is the determination of the amount of time and space resources required to execute it. 

the efficiency or running time of an algorithm is stated as a function relating the input length to the number of steps, known as time complexity, or volume of memory, known as space complexity. 

Algorithm Analysis

Efficiency of an algorithm can be analyzed at two different stages, before implementation and after implementation. They are the following −

• A Priori(Pre) Analysis − This is a theoretical analysis of an algorithm. Efficiency of an algorithm is measured by assuming that all other factors, for example, processor speed, are constant and have no effect on the implementation.
• A Posterior(Post) Analysis − This is an empirical analysis of an algorithm. The selected algorithm is implemented using programming language. This is then executed on target computer machine. In this analysis, actual statistics like running time and space required, are collected.

We shall learn about a priori algorithm analysis. Algorithm analysis deals with the execution or running time of various operations involved. The running time of an operation can be defined as the number of computer instructions executed per operation.

Algorithm Complexity

Suppose X is an algorithm and n is the size of input data, the time and space used by the algorithm X are the two main factors, which decide the efficiency of X.

• Time Factor − Time is measured by counting the number of key operations such as comparisons in the sorting algorithm.
• Space Factor − Space is measured by counting the maximum memory space required by the algorithm.

The complexity of an algorithm f(n) gives the running time and/or the storage space required by the algorithm in terms of n as the size of input data.

Space Complexity

Space complexity of an algorithm represents the amount of memory space required by the algorithm in its life cycle. The space required by an algorithm is equal to the sum of the following two components −

• A fixed part that is a space required to store certain data and variables, that are independent of the size of the problem. For example, simple variables and constants used, program size, etc.
• A variable part is a space required by variables, whose size depends on the size of the problem. For example, dynamic memory allocation, recursion stack space, etc.

Space complexity S(P) of any algorithm P is S(P) = C + SP(I), where C is the fixed part and S(I) is the variable part of the algorithm, which depends on instance characteristic I. Following is a simple example that tries to explain the concept −

Algorithm: SUM(A, B)
Step 1 -  START
Step 2 -  C ← A + B + 10
Step 3 -  Stop

Here we have three variables A, B, and C and one constant. Hence S(P) = 1 + 3. Now, space depends on data types of given variables and constant types and it will be multiplied accordingly.

Time Complexity

Time complexity of an algorithm represents the amount of time required by the algorithm to run to completion. Time requirements can be defined as a numerical function T(n), where T(n) can be measured as the number of steps, provided each step consumes constant time.
For example, addition of two n-bit integers takes n steps. Consequently, the total computational time is T(n) = c ∗ n, where c is the time taken for the addition of two bits. Here, we observe that T(n) grows linearly as the input size increases.


Making up an Algorithm beforehandedly clears many things out while making a particular program or doing anything out.



©SherilThomas

Arduino: About its Structure

Arduino

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1. Arduino is an open source platform.

2. It has a programmable circuit board that can be programmed with the help of its user-friendly Arduino IDE(Integrated development environment ).

3. This circuit board consists of programmable micro-controller which can sense and control object in the real world.

Here is the picture of the Arduino board :

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Types of Arduino:

There are different different types of Arduino micro-controller present in the market.

While selecting the Arduino board you have to consider the type of project you are doing.

Here is a picture demonstrating types of Arduino :

For example :

If you are making some wearable electronics you might be considering Lily pad. which is easy to be seen or integrated with wearable.

Arduino pro mini for small projects etc.

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Board Description:

1. Reset: Used to start code again from an initial state(i.e restart loaded code) in Arduino.

2. AREF: Analog Reference used to set external voltage as an upper limit for analog pins(0v to 5v).

3. Ground: It is used to give ground to your circuit. There are several ground pins in the circuit the in all works the same.

4. Digital pins: Used to take inputs and transmit output.

5. PWM :  (~) marked pin are able to simulate analog signals.

6. power: Arduino can be powered in no. of ways one of them is through the USB slot. you can connect Arduino to PC by using USB cable

7. TX & RX : TX(Transmitter) and RX(receiver). TX flashes according to the serial data transmission speed and RX flashes during the receiving process. Flashing depends upon the baud rate.

8. Micro-Controller: It is also known as the brain of the board. IC(Integrated Circuit a micro-controller) differs from board to board. As before uploading sketch you must know what IC you are using.

9. Power Indicator: This led lights every when the board is powered.

10. Regulator: Controls amount of voltage in Arduino board.

11.DC barrel: Used to power Arduino with DC(Direct Current) jack.

12. 3.3 volts: supplies 3.3v to external objects.

13. 5 volts: supplies 5v to external objects.

14.Ground: It is used to give ground to your circuit . There are several ground pins in circuit in all works same.

15. Analog pins: receives analog signals from sensors and convert it into digital signal.

  ©SherilThomas