No 1448 of Living Life Series 1
We are in a world where everyone sees his own needs and demand the world out of others. Some are more diplomatic but still pressuring. Others more outright blunt. They tell us what they want and will not accept that we cannot accede. They hear not what we have to say. We don't even have any say.
This is the result of disconnect with the divine, and conscience is as good as absent. If they can, they will take the law into their own hands.
If we orbit in their world, we will be hard put to have any peace. Soon we end up like them. Better to be out of their orbit and keep the distance. If we have to be with them, leave them to behave the way they want. If need be, be firm and that may be best, and at least we will have some peace.
We live our own life and want our peace and have the piece of life we can have. Let them not tell us how to live. We decide how to live life. We do not stop them to them to live their way. We do not tell them how to live life.
Associate with the peaceful and not with those who have no peace and just out to have more and more. They will end up frustrated and misfits.
If they take the law into their own hands, they will get burnt. They get consequences of their own actions, be it heavenly or worldly - God or the law of the land.
Let us keep the peace and have our piece of life in peace as much as we can with the world at large, and not in the narrow world of the heartless, unfilial, disloyal, unfriendly, partisan, unscruplous and the godless.
Getting upset with them is of no use and will rob us off whatever peace and piece of life we have.
May we learn to be more godly and peaceful like God towards other men, not like the devil whom even God cannot stop and change. If God cannot but still extend an olive branch to them, how much can we mortals do.
But we should be able to be a bit like God and extend a helping hand but keep our distance, lest we be swallowed into the devil of their world.
If we can, bring them out into the wider world of peace and love where they are outnumbered and in time will be mellowed down and be won over by peace. This does not mean we make them worse and let them have their ways.
Do pray and meditate during our quiet time at night for the resilience to keep our peace and win them over to more peaceful ways in life. Life is like that. We must be on top of life and life not be on top of us.
Now we understand why there is the concept of God and Satan in every religion. For those who don't grasp the concept at the level of our day to day life, they will think that God and Satan do not exist.
But this is the only way to put to the majority of people of the days of old who were less informed and educated. This is the only way for the truth of the need for inner peace and the how to do so to be passed on to us over over the many centuries of time.
But we need to be discerning and read between the lines. Those who do not go to the philosophical level will think wrongly why God is so useless. He cannot even handle Satan. How can God be God?
That is why we need to be logical and grasp the inner truth behind. There is need to keep the peace and no one is exempt from problems. It is how to have peace in life. We cannot change the world. But we can change our mind set and determined to be at peace come what may in life.
Don't say that God will help us or why God is not doing so. God has given the Word. The Word is God. It is to be like God and have peace never mind if there are Satans in other people or in life. Inner peace is the Word.
Then equipped with inner peace, we can be victors of life and not victims of life.
We do not want to be killed by life. We want to be more alive in life.
God cannot promise perfection. He can only provide the perfect way to handle imperfection. This is how God handles Satan. Inner peace is the way.
The above is what we can learn from Bo Tien 武 天 who stresses on the inner truth of the need for inner peace through any religion. Any religion will do.
Yes! Indeed any religion will do if we know how. Doesn't matter how we come to realise this.
Do not idolise the person or saint from whom we learn how to. It is not idolising that will help us but the Word that is important.
But do not make the mistake of idolizing the man who tells us about the Word. He is in the same boat as us even if religion refers to him as a pastor or priest. Mere mention of pastor or priest is as good as encouraging idolising of that man.
Do not even idolize the Word or teaching and worship the teaching when we are not to even idolise God or a prophet or saint.
It is how we live in the Word and make it come to life in us - to give us inner peace here and now and not wait till kingdom come in afterlife.
This is the result of disconnect with the divine, and conscience is as good as absent. If they can, they will take the law into their own hands.
If we orbit in their world, we will be hard put to have any peace. Soon we end up like them. Better to be out of their orbit and keep the distance. If we have to be with them, leave them to behave the way they want. If need be, be firm and that may be best, and at least we will have some peace.
We live our own life and want our peace and have the piece of life we can have. Let them not tell us how to live. We decide how to live life. We do not stop them to them to live their way. We do not tell them how to live life.
Associate with the peaceful and not with those who have no peace and just out to have more and more. They will end up frustrated and misfits.
If they take the law into their own hands, they will get burnt. They get consequences of their own actions, be it heavenly or worldly - God or the law of the land.
Let us keep the peace and have our piece of life in peace as much as we can with the world at large, and not in the narrow world of the heartless, unfilial, disloyal, unfriendly, partisan, unscruplous and the godless.
Getting upset with them is of no use and will rob us off whatever peace and piece of life we have.
May we learn to be more godly and peaceful like God towards other men, not like the devil whom even God cannot stop and change. If God cannot but still extend an olive branch to them, how much can we mortals do.
But we should be able to be a bit like God and extend a helping hand but keep our distance, lest we be swallowed into the devil of their world.
If we can, bring them out into the wider world of peace and love where they are outnumbered and in time will be mellowed down and be won over by peace. This does not mean we make them worse and let them have their ways.
Do pray and meditate during our quiet time at night for the resilience to keep our peace and win them over to more peaceful ways in life. Life is like that. We must be on top of life and life not be on top of us.
Now we understand why there is the concept of God and Satan in every religion. For those who don't grasp the concept at the level of our day to day life, they will think that God and Satan do not exist.
But this is the only way to put to the majority of people of the days of old who were less informed and educated. This is the only way for the truth of the need for inner peace and the how to do so to be passed on to us over over the many centuries of time.
But we need to be discerning and read between the lines. Those who do not go to the philosophical level will think wrongly why God is so useless. He cannot even handle Satan. How can God be God?
That is why we need to be logical and grasp the inner truth behind. There is need to keep the peace and no one is exempt from problems. It is how to have peace in life. We cannot change the world. But we can change our mind set and determined to be at peace come what may in life.
Don't say that God will help us or why God is not doing so. God has given the Word. The Word is God. It is to be like God and have peace never mind if there are Satans in other people or in life. Inner peace is the Word.
Then equipped with inner peace, we can be victors of life and not victims of life.
We do not want to be killed by life. We want to be more alive in life.
God cannot promise perfection. He can only provide the perfect way to handle imperfection. This is how God handles Satan. Inner peace is the way.
The above is what we can learn from Bo Tien 武 天 who stresses on the inner truth of the need for inner peace through any religion. Any religion will do.
Do not idolise the person or saint from whom we learn how to. It is not idolising that will help us but the Word that is important.
But do not make the mistake of idolizing the man who tells us about the Word. He is in the same boat as us even if religion refers to him as a pastor or priest. Mere mention of pastor or priest is as good as encouraging idolising of that man.
Do not even idolize the Word or teaching and worship the teaching when we are not to even idolise God or a prophet or saint.
It is how we live in the Word and make it come to life in us - to give us inner peace here and now and not wait till kingdom come in afterlife.
