The Basics

Often not, the society, and perhaps the world influences our thinking.

Just a few weeks ago, Pr Eric mentioned about reading the Bible with a pure heart. It's hard, because our mindset are somehow containing things that have been 'modernized', thus when we read the Bible we have different thinking and it confuses us from the fundamental values in the Bible.


And also, relationships. Reading articles, watching dramas, witnessing situations, all which are related to negative feelings. Betrayed, hurt, upset, jealousy and whatnot. Then fear comes in because none of these are happening right now and you wonder will any of these happen in the future.

The worst thing is that all of these are like a norm, happening every now and then, as if it's the most common thing to happen in our daily lives.

And all of these creep into our minds, eating our security away, drawing us further from our partners, who question our insecurities.

Layers by layers, everything accumulates. And it just makes you uncomfortable with your own self day by day, wondering if it's the right thing or the right thinking to have.

When your personality and rationality comes together, they just clash with each other and KA-BOOM! Mind games started. Want and Don't Want begin to battle.

Confusion appears, tears roll down, you wonder how you can ever feel this way.

The tenth Commandment:

"You shall not covet." 

Covet - yearn to possess or have (something).

As easy as it seems, it's the easiest to not fulfill this Commandment.

You don't need something, but it isn't something that you want either. But you just feel like having it.

Or, you see pictures of other people going around to places that you're interested in, but you are just not in the position to be like them. Yet.

Your rationality tells you that you shouldn't think this way but your heart longs for it. Then your rationality comes out and remind you that you just need to wait because it just ain't the timing yet. Be more understandable, be more understandable. 

This is a life-time journey and you certainly don't want to ruin your relationship by coveting. God doesn't like people to compare, He wants us to learn to appreciate. Go back to the basics. Go back to love. It's just that simple.

Daily self-reflection: have I been appreciating and loving people around me enough?

A faithful man will abound with blessings, But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished. - Proverbs 28:20 -