No 895 of Living Life Series 1
Salvation is not for the asking. It is never a question of "ask and you shall have" but rather of "seek and you shall find"
Even in matters of doing good and avoiding evil, it is the doer who must take the initiative and the actions. He has a choice of religions to decide how best he could do this.
No amount of believing will do any good unless believing lead to actions that are good and that purify the spirit.
Believing in the guidance and benevolence of God and saints is good as a starting point or launch pad for spirituality. It is indeed a necessary starting point.
But ultimately what matters is that we must go beyond belief. We must not be frozen into inaction and crutch mentality by belief.
Salvation is not for the asking. We must cultivate the path to salvation by asking for guidance and for blessings to be able to seek salvation. The path to salvation is to avoid evil, do good and purify the mind or spirit.
We must not just believe but act on our beliefs. We must not wait to be saved but we must act on our beliefs.
Believing in God and saints is good but if we go no further, we will not grow in spirituality but be stymied by mere faith and belief.
True belief and faith make us go the mile to tread the path of doing good, avoiding evil and purifying the spirit or mind.
Salvation is not served. Ask not to be given salvation but for the way and guidance to salvation.
Ask and it shall be given. Seek and we shall find. This is true but this does not mean that we push the job to God and saints when we must undertake the job to be saved and be with God and saints.
We must not only believe but we must act on our belief. Somehow, there will simply be some who just believe, sit pretty and go no further than believing.
Whatever we want, we can of course, get others like our parents to give us but ultimately in the long run, we have to grow up and get things done for ourselves. If we can, we must where feasible give to others more so those who are needy and cannot do so for themselves.
This principle of not asking but seeking actively applies to both spiritual and the mundane. Do not stretch out our hands all the time. What are hands for? Surely we can put our hands to work and get things done - be it salvation or otherwise.
It is another illustration of what the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 said that a good principle can certainly work for both spiritual and mundane.
Another good universal principle common to all religions and societies is that we should go for the principle or doctrine explained by the leader and not go for the leader.
In the spiritual world, we must go for the Word for the Word is God and saints.
In the corporate world, we too must go for the corporate philosophy and not the manager for the philosophy of business represents what the manager stands for.
Of course, we must believe in the sage or manager and to do so, we must agree to the thinking or doctrine and effect it.
Naturally, with regards to spiritual, if we practice the doctrine, we will have salvation. If we only go for the person in the sage or prophet and ask for salvation without any regard for living and effecting the doctrine he stands for, we are, well in a way, done for. We will be far from salvation.
We may claim to be near but we are far from both the sage and salvation. The near thus may be far. This applies to all religions. This did the lord saint Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says.
Those who are not in habit of worship but follows the doctrine of the sage of a religion is in fact near to that sage though far. The far too may be near. The good lord did add.
Ask and it shall be given. Seek and we shall find. This is true but this does not mean that we push the job to God and saints when we must undertake the job to be saved and be with God and saints.
We must not only believe but we must act on our belief. Somehow, there will simply be some who just believe, sit pretty and go no further than believing.
Whatever we want, we can of course, get others like our parents to give us but ultimately in the long run, we have to grow up and get things done for ourselves. If we can, we must where feasible give to others more so those who are needy and cannot do so for themselves.
This principle of not asking but seeking actively applies to both spiritual and the mundane. Do not stretch out our hands all the time. What are hands for? Surely we can put our hands to work and get things done - be it salvation or otherwise.
It is another illustration of what the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 said that a good principle can certainly work for both spiritual and mundane.
In the spiritual world, we must go for the Word for the Word is God and saints.
In the corporate world, we too must go for the corporate philosophy and not the manager for the philosophy of business represents what the manager stands for.
Of course, we must believe in the sage or manager and to do so, we must agree to the thinking or doctrine and effect it.
Naturally, with regards to spiritual, if we practice the doctrine, we will have salvation. If we only go for the person in the sage or prophet and ask for salvation without any regard for living and effecting the doctrine he stands for, we are, well in a way, done for. We will be far from salvation.
We may claim to be near but we are far from both the sage and salvation. The near thus may be far. This applies to all religions. This did the lord saint Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says.
Those who are not in habit of worship but follows the doctrine of the sage of a religion is in fact near to that sage though far. The far too may be near. The good lord did add.
