Believe And Receive

What you believe, you can achieve. To achieve, you must first receive. Receive what, you ask?

The act of believing is a building up of confidence/expectancy of things to come. It is a sense of assurance of what will be or what I call, faith.

Faith comes from hearing; hearing of the good that would come. Yes, there is greater things/days in life yet seen and will be witnessed by you and I.

"I believe in you!" really means "I have confidence that you can achieve greatness/excellence." The person to whom this is spoken to most likely, would be strengthened in mind, and his/her spirits would soar to be/do more than what is conceivable today. A seed of inspiration is being planted and those who claim (aka receive) it would birth in their mind's eye, a fresh vision of bigger/better things/days ahead. Faith grows and drives the individual towards the vision in sight.

Faith is seeing in one's mind that which can be, then acting on the belief and so bring about the greatness and goodness of life. Focused action begets desired results. Visions can only be fulfilled when lived out. Walking in faith is thus living life with the most positive attitude we know how thereby creating an environment of expectancy for the greater things of life and so enable victorious living!

Blessed are those whose hearts are filled with faith of the goodness of life!

This Is A Self-Seeking World

*SCREAM* This is so unfair! I did so much and this is what I got in return?! What have I done to deserve this? What right do they have to do this to me? This is not what I deserve!! *SHOUT*

Oh, you must hear these great cries all the time; cries of self-entitlement! At one point in time or another, you and I have made such remarks ourselves too. This is because we are bred in a self-seeking environment.

People render assistance for or contribute out of a purposeful intent to gain personally from the giving. It is an exchange for an individual benefit. Many make "strategic" plans and take "calculated" steps to achieve specific desires. And when the expected return does not materialise, anger sets in.

We justify our cause(s) to death: we glamourise our cause(s), then curse the world for the unfair and unsound order of things that hindered the attainment of our hearts' desires. This tension is all because we did not get what we covet for. The time, effort, plans put in have failed to reap the outcome we anticipated and so yearned.

We ask ourselves, "what have I not done right? What have I not tried hard enough at? How could I have gotten it?" etc. etc. See the true intent behind the noble act? We live in a self-seeking world.

Would you join the bandwagon and be a self-seeker or would you hop off it and be an activist who would make a difference to re-shape this world? Then, life would be about seeking to give rather than take; seeking first to understand and not crave first to be understood; seeking to listen rather than impose your views?

What is a different attitude that you could adopt and influence the people around you into so as to neutralise this global surge of self-gratification?