Anyone who practices any faith has come to the conclusion that there is something very wrong with humanity and the ways of society. Especially since coming to some kind of truth, they will strongly see that the secular world is 180 degrees opposite and opposes the original purpose of creation
When a person is sick, in order to get to a better state of wellness, they take medicine. Usually, medicine it is better, but it is received because it will in the end make one return to their natural state. When one receives this with patience, they will become victor and not be a loser.
When a person of faith strives to work toward God's will, they may concentrate basically on just the difficult, challenging jobs. "Why do I have to get up so early? This is a hard job." You can change your perspective and accept the same thing in different ways.
When you get up early in the morning, you may go out into the garden and then look at the sky and the stars may still be visible.
By changing your perspective of seemingly regular type things you can even start the day with this vision of stars above your head.
A village dog's constant barking could become an annoyance on any other day, but you can think today that his bark provide you with rhythm and music.
In the city, you rarely get the chance to hear a rooster at 5 o'clock or earlier in the morning. In the city, a rooster's call would be lost among the noise of heavy tailgate traffic. In the country, you can drive freely with barely anyone in front of you.
You can see that with a simple shift in the way of thinking can determine your happiness or unhappiness in one moment. There are many ways to think of yourself as being happy. We must change our philosophy when we recognize that each moment of our life has an opportunity to set our mood to be happy or miserable. We should always think of this one moment.
Then you can see how easy it is to fall into depression and unhappiness. We must be patient and steer our way to the side of happiness no matter what situation we find ourselves in.
We should not allow our self to let another person make us unhappy, but be determined to think of things in that way and think of yourself as being the cause not the other person. Even if you are to find yourself in a situation where others had made you unhappy, you make yourself happy. You can feel the value of being in that position which you have found yourself and train yourself to create joy. This is the secret to being happy in any situation.
It is ideal, of course, to go straight on the road to the goal of happiness.
We may find that it is very difficult to go the straight and narrow way. Even God, because of the fall, has not been able to go the straight way to straighten people out and had to go in a zigzag course toward restoring us back to the original world. So, it is natural that human beings go the same zigzag way to go back to him.
Even though your path may take a zigzag direction, you must still draw a straight line in your mind and know clearly where the goal is. During the course, you may fall into a low atmosphere or come under a lot of pressure. It is best to always take advantage of those bad moments and train yourself to be unaffected through this kind of tailored experience.
When you are sunk in despair, it means that you have been self-centered.
You must also, know that just because you feel unhappy, this does not mean that you are headed toward unhappiness. Keep your mind open to the possibility that you can shift your whole mood's direction toward happiness no matter what you are encountering. If a ship is steered in a different course from the original direction, the ship will go very swiftly to the different angle that is set. In this context, when you are in a difficult situation, you must think deeply how to get back to the right side.
It is natural to get disappointed when you encounter difficulty, but at that moment you must remind yourself that your parents and loved ones are praying for your success. "Also, you can think of the fact that your friends, relatives and the country are also praying for the sake of the nations and their own success. Then you can think even more that if there is a God, that God is blessing you with happiness as well in each moment. When you know that when you are not apart from God, you will always be successful no matter the hardships you encountered.
Think also, that you were not born an orphan, you have parents who care and love for you. You are not nation-less, you have your own great nation. Most importantly, you have a great God who has an even greater plan for your happiness and leads you through the barriers you encounter.
You cannot fail when you think of God, nation and your parents are watching for your success.
If your course of faith has taken you away from your parents or nation and you were opposed you can tell your parents in your mind that you will go back to them with happiness and that is why you are doing God's work.
You become so confident that you say that you cannot go back to the world. You'll be so determined in the face of death to bring back the spoils after the success in the battle. Then you can ease the hearts of your friends and parents awaiting your return.
In the battle one must say that despite the enemy I will not fail in the mission. Many enemies may pray for your frustration and failure, so you must always be strong not to be defeated in this battle and win at all costs.
Even though I may have to die on the road, I will never be defeated, because I will never surrender to them.
You can think to yourself that if you are defeated that your enemies are waiting to laugh at you and step on you at that final moment. Determine not to fail no matter how difficult it may be or how bumpy the road may be. You must dash on the road to success.
In the face of adversity, you will feel more challenged and in front of your enemies you will feel a greater challenge. Think that God and the good spirit world are cheering you on and forget that Satan is always wanting your failure.
When you encounter a situation that is bitter and seems impossible, you must immediately think of God's heart. Think of how He labored like a father preparing the world for His only children only to later be betrayed and abandoned by them to His own enemy. You will quickly become sympathetic to God's situation and feel the same sadness that He has felt for centuries in your heart.
As a Father, God in the moment He lost His only children and the whole world could have lost all hope and abandoned all men, nature and including Satan. But the Almighty God could never do that. Satan could tell him that God was not omnipotent or Almighty if He gave up His creation in defeat.
Rather, God was firm and intact from Satanic invasion, saying, "However hard you may try to undermine me, I will be firm." God felt unforgiving toward Satan. But because He is God, He had to forgive, not Satan, but the wrong of the people. He was at the point where He could not be patient, but because He was situated at that point, He had to be patient.
This is what makes Him God. He could be patient where other people couldn't,
He can forgive where others cannot forgive. If God had become angry at that moment of the Fall and erased all of Creation and humanity He would have become a god of failure with no creation for eternity to praise Him for His love and great works.
Now, you can see how important patience is. When you practice patience, you can forgive your enemy. Once you forgive your enemy, you can occupy him. Satan draws a line between you and your enemy.
If you stay on one side and the enemy on the other side, there will always be a gap between the two of you. But if you take the first step and embrace him, then he will either retreat and leave you alone or embrace you as well. By you forgiving him and embracing him, you can occupy him.
Patience can be the motivation of restart and recreation.
Who is the foremost champion to practice the fine art of patience? God.
God was patient when His only son was nailed to the cross by the rebellious people that He had raised for 4,000 years to prepare the way for the Messiah. His patience allowed it to be possible. When you do something very ugly and horrible to someone and they do not do anything in revenge in return and pretend you didn't do anything, you become lo and more humble.
In your own family life, when you own brothers, sister or mother are against you, yet, you remain poised, cool and collected, then they will surrender before you. This is the way to occupy their hearts. Lets be patient for the sake of ourselves and utter good words for the sake of other people who endure difficulties and speak out for the sake.
Those are the secrets of success.
First patience: positive words or action for other people's benefit. In the Orient we have a saying that. "The man of patience is the victor." After patience comes the notion of living for the sake of other people. "I exist or live for the sake of other people."
That's the only philosophy we have to entertain. That means to become humble and to place yourself in a lower place than other people.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Patience is the Most Important Virtue
This post was rewritten and derived from Opportunity for Happiness or Unhappiness
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