There have been times in my life where I wonder why I achieve so much when I really don’t have a chance to. I tell myself I have been lucky, that my name just gets pulled out of the box every time a competition, a selection or a test comes up. I tell myself it won’t happen again, it was just a one-time thing, yet I receive so much that I feel I don’t deserve again and again and yet again.
For a long time, I did not know why this happens to me. Surely, I have to be grateful for my successes, but grateful to whom? Isn’t it my luck, my fate? Yes! It is my pre-written fate, it just happens, it’s not like anyone makes an effort to make sure I am always successful in every trial of my life. But then… who wrote this ‘pre-written’ fate? I, for one, couldn’t have imagined anything of the sort. I also don’t think any human being is capable of doing so. There must be a greater Being, an Entity such that I have yet to comprehend and appreciate. They always say it, yes they do. I cannot possibly forget the biggest part of my life, my God. At least, that’s what I think.
My not forgetting the existence of God is a blindly accepted fact. Everyone knows there is God, the All-Seeing, the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful. Everyone (almost) accepts that! Then why pick such a topic to discuss? Doesn’t the argument- or in modern day English, discussion- end when there is hardly a difference of opinion? I’m not just talking about the situations where everybody believes in God, but also the situations when everyone shares the same faith. So everyone has the same beliefs, the same concepts, moral values, traditions and so on. What’s the point?!
When you come to it, the lines all meet at one concentrated point. All the rationalism and so-called wisdom hits one point, and that is a question: How many of us consciously believe in God? Or better yet, do any of us consciously believe in God? “What is that supposed to mean? Of course we are all conscious believers. I do, I do, I believe in God, I believe in Him consciously!” say the people. The complexity of this question gives way for another question to arise: What is a conscious believer in God?
When one is conscious about something, they are ever-aware of it. No matter what the situation, the consequences, the location, the time, the people, the fears, the anxieties, the enjoyment, the stares, the glares, there is always this one thing or person or entity or thought that springs up from the back of your mind, and takes priority over everything else. So in effect, its presence decides what you do, what you say and how you think. Should this not be the case with us and our God?
If we really have such a great issue with people being ‘judgmental’ all the time, and telling us what to do and what not to do, then we shouldn’t give them the chance to. There’s three ways to do that: firstly, you can become reclusive and lock yourself up where no soul finds you and can therefore no longer comment on what you are doing, although they would probably be making up stories of your disappearance behind your back, anyway. The second way to stop receiving ‘judgmental’ looks is to get those socially unacceptable habits out of yourself, to make sure you are never caught doing something that is not acceptable to society, to friends, to family and to ‘the people’. However, this is a risk, as no one wants to become a ‘people’s person’ and mould themselves according to their surroundings.
The last resort one has links back to the idea of being a ‘conscious believer’. If one does everything according to the way God- his creator- wants, no one can pass ‘judgmental looks’. “Pssht, yeah, right” Okay, well, they CAN pass judgmental looks; they can pass very sneer comments as well. And that fact doesn’t make this method very different to the others does it? Well, one thing does. In this method, the believer has got his God by his side at all times. He is a conscious believer, and so he is conscious of the fact that God is with him, all the time.
People’s comments no longer hold any importance in this believer’s eyes, his level of spirituality rises far above the others around him. And the best part is, once the believer makes a small effort to become ‘conscious’, it just becomes easier and easier. It is just like taking help from a strong person while hanging above a bottomless pit. One little effort to raise yourself an inch higher can save your life. But if we do not act quickly, we have already dug our grave. We have given up on hope without testing it. We have given up on life without living it. Think quick, for the rope of life is slowly tearing apart…
For a long time, I did not know why this happens to me. Surely, I have to be grateful for my successes, but grateful to whom? Isn’t it my luck, my fate? Yes! It is my pre-written fate, it just happens, it’s not like anyone makes an effort to make sure I am always successful in every trial of my life. But then… who wrote this ‘pre-written’ fate? I, for one, couldn’t have imagined anything of the sort. I also don’t think any human being is capable of doing so. There must be a greater Being, an Entity such that I have yet to comprehend and appreciate. They always say it, yes they do. I cannot possibly forget the biggest part of my life, my God. At least, that’s what I think.
My not forgetting the existence of God is a blindly accepted fact. Everyone knows there is God, the All-Seeing, the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful. Everyone (almost) accepts that! Then why pick such a topic to discuss? Doesn’t the argument- or in modern day English, discussion- end when there is hardly a difference of opinion? I’m not just talking about the situations where everybody believes in God, but also the situations when everyone shares the same faith. So everyone has the same beliefs, the same concepts, moral values, traditions and so on. What’s the point?!
When you come to it, the lines all meet at one concentrated point. All the rationalism and so-called wisdom hits one point, and that is a question: How many of us consciously believe in God? Or better yet, do any of us consciously believe in God? “What is that supposed to mean? Of course we are all conscious believers. I do, I do, I believe in God, I believe in Him consciously!” say the people. The complexity of this question gives way for another question to arise: What is a conscious believer in God?
When one is conscious about something, they are ever-aware of it. No matter what the situation, the consequences, the location, the time, the people, the fears, the anxieties, the enjoyment, the stares, the glares, there is always this one thing or person or entity or thought that springs up from the back of your mind, and takes priority over everything else. So in effect, its presence decides what you do, what you say and how you think. Should this not be the case with us and our God?
If we really have such a great issue with people being ‘judgmental’ all the time, and telling us what to do and what not to do, then we shouldn’t give them the chance to. There’s three ways to do that: firstly, you can become reclusive and lock yourself up where no soul finds you and can therefore no longer comment on what you are doing, although they would probably be making up stories of your disappearance behind your back, anyway. The second way to stop receiving ‘judgmental’ looks is to get those socially unacceptable habits out of yourself, to make sure you are never caught doing something that is not acceptable to society, to friends, to family and to ‘the people’. However, this is a risk, as no one wants to become a ‘people’s person’ and mould themselves according to their surroundings.
The last resort one has links back to the idea of being a ‘conscious believer’. If one does everything according to the way God- his creator- wants, no one can pass ‘judgmental looks’. “Pssht, yeah, right” Okay, well, they CAN pass judgmental looks; they can pass very sneer comments as well. And that fact doesn’t make this method very different to the others does it? Well, one thing does. In this method, the believer has got his God by his side at all times. He is a conscious believer, and so he is conscious of the fact that God is with him, all the time.
People’s comments no longer hold any importance in this believer’s eyes, his level of spirituality rises far above the others around him. And the best part is, once the believer makes a small effort to become ‘conscious’, it just becomes easier and easier. It is just like taking help from a strong person while hanging above a bottomless pit. One little effort to raise yourself an inch higher can save your life. But if we do not act quickly, we have already dug our grave. We have given up on hope without testing it. We have given up on life without living it. Think quick, for the rope of life is slowly tearing apart…
