Meshell.
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what are your motives?
Sunday, February 20, 2011 @ 3:19 PM
if you think popularity is what you are pursuing, you can make more superficial friends if you think looking good is what you want, you can continue to buy all the nice clothes you can afford if you think that reputation is what you are trying to build, you can continue achieving excellent grades and being nice and all to everyone around you if you are trying to fit in, you can go form more cliques to find your sense of belonging. what saddens me the most, is the motives behind all these wants and desires. are we truly genuine when it comes to caring for people or to meet up with them to know if they are fine? are we talking to people because we care for them or merely to know a little more abt them/secrets that the others do not? why are we playing this life boat game where you just want to pursue things that make you feel/look better than the rest; elevating yourself up and pushing others down? what satisfaction does that give to you? what is the point of comparing these popularity status? does that gives you eternal satisfaction or a temporal satisfaction? what are our motives behind all our actions? This week in the study of Haggai chapter 1, we were reminded again to STOP building our own little 'house' of pleasure but to continue building the 'temple of God'. the people in the book of Haggai had their own reasons in stopping the building of the house of the Lord and they even uses scripture to support their stand in delaying the building. they gave excuse that the 70th year have not yet arrived so they should not continue etc. what are our reasons for stopping the building of our spiritual treasures and the temple of God and being so eagerly enthusiastic about building our treasures here on earth which are temporal? |