Love your neighbours

I went to church on last Saturday. The gospel reading for that day was about the first two of the 10 Commandments. The first one is "Love your God". The second is "Love your neghbours like you loved yourself". As human, it is not easy to love others like we loved ourselves. I normally heard from others that "If we don't put ourselves in front, others will. So don't become too kind.". This thought will usually lead people to selfishness. If we look at the scenario nowadays, people eventhough living just next door, they didn't know anything about each other. They only think about themselves and their family. Is that showing what God has told us to do? I don't think so.


In the old days, people communicate a lot with each others especially when they are living in next to each other. As the technology become more advanced where people can communicate with far away friends and relatives, they tend to ignore people around them. I am talking about the scenario that is more likely to be happen nowadays. I am not blaming technology for this to be happen. It is more towards the attitude of people. It may be that this new generation of people didn't have proper teaching about the importance of communicating with people around them. This is more to social value of the people. Their communication skill is not good enough.


I admit that same thing happen to me. I feel so shy to talk to people around me if they are not my friend or relatives. I need them to start the conversation before I will be able to communicate with them. What if both of us think the same way? There will be no communication happening between us. So it is better if both are thinking of starting the conversation as it is easier to initiate communication. This will easier to be happen if we applied what God has told us. If we love our neighbour as we love ourselves then they will less likely for shy to stop us from communicating.


However, there are one major problem for us even from the old days. That is to love our enemy. You may say, "What!? You want me to love this xxx guy/woman??? No way man!!". This is normal for everybody. I will never say it is impossible. It is sure possible but HARD to do. It needs us to be 100% loving others. It is normal for us to pray for our love one. What about if we pray for people we hate the most? This is a big "Can I do this?" question for you. This is your biggest challenge. It's my biggest challenge too but I know that the feeling of forgiving is so great and wonderful. Whenever you forgive someone, you will feel very light and free from all the tiresome of holding the hatred and anger that will surely consume much of your energy. Better for us to use this energy to do more important stuffs rather than using it to hate people. So you can see know that you can increase your productivity just by forgiving others.

"Love God, love your neighbours like you loved yourself and you will be able to TRUELY FORGIVE."

Mathew 6: 25 - 34

   It’s about worry, it been said that we do not have to worry about “What will we wear tomorrow?” or “What will we eat tomorrow?” because God knows what is best for us. Even the birds in the sky do not have to worry about tomorrow. God will prepare for them what is necessary. If the birds also get special treatment from God, us human will get even better.

   For me, this is actually about what’s inside your mind. It does not mean that by just believing and not doing anything, the foods and clothes will come to you. It’s about eliminating the elements of “worry” inside you that can affect negatively on your productivity in any works that you are doing.

   If we can eliminate the worries inside us, we can focus more on our works which surely lead to more creative ideas and more energy for doing the works. So don’t take this message directly but think deeper so that you will not misinterpreted the information.

  I got this one relative that misunderstood the knowledge and he didn’t want to work. He just stayed at his house and lives freely. Whenever there are friends or relatives come to give him advice, he will talk about the readings from the bible that we had just discussed before. My aim here is to make it clear that we still need to work. Even the birds are also still flying and searching for foods. They didn’t just stay in the nest waiting for the worms to come. They only focused on searching for foods and live in peace without worry. =_)

~~ INNER PEACE ~~


Regards,


Tim

To GIVE?

“Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.”

I want to do 100% as the above bible quote's saying. But we are human right? We have feelings and thought which always fighting each other. And also there are many temptations for us to be selfish, angry, greedy and so on. So what can we do as human? We can TRY. The only difference between this person and the others are, one are TRYING and the others are NOT. There is no such thing as, "He is rich so he can donate" or "I have no money so I can give anything".

If we open our mind, GIVE refers too not just money but there are other ways to GIVE. Some people GIVING in terms of ADVICE. There are also people that can give MORAL support or maybe PHYSICAL help. This are all included in the GIVING list. Most important is, when we give, we must give sincerely. Cannot be any hope of getting anything in return inside you. God SEE what have you done and will rewards you handsomely.

From what that I see, it is hard for me to see which people is truly sincere when giving. Most people nowadays offering help for something in return. Because they say that this world is different from 50 years ago. Nowadays people who always give things or help for FREE is going to be unsuccessful. Are you really sure about that? I know that it is normal that when you help others, they will try to give you something in return for your help. It is not that when you receive the rewards then you are not sincere. It's what inside you that matters. You cannot control others whether to give you rewards or not. That's their decision to choose. What I mean is, "what's are you thinking when you help people?". It's more about what inside you.

So now, take some time to be one with yourself and do some reflection of your past. Think about what did you GAVE SINCERELY. Plan about how you can GIVE SINCERELY. It's all inside you. Now you are reading this blog and you remember the content but not for long. You do not have to remember all the words inside this post. You just need to OPEN YOUR MIND and UNDERSTAND this:

GIVE SINCERELY