Disclaimer: The sharing is pure from my personal view; therefore, please don’t take it to be absolute. Thanks.
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Last week at my working place, my manager contacted me urgently to work on an inquiry from his manager. The elevated voice from my manager alerted me about a piece of datum that I provided previously. The event quickly snowballed and involved some of my colleagues. I was not a happy camper at that time and told my manger that it is my fault and I am the one should be blamed because I didn’t filter out the datum with caution after I received it. My manger told me that the event has been escalated to higher level and they are looking for a scapegoat, even though the datum was not from us originally. Ran into such a situation, I was not planning to defend it further since there is politics being played and besides, I should be partially blamed for my carelessness.
From this incident, I was thinking of the questions, “Why life has so many complications? Can we live a simple life and be happy?” Then another question came up to my mind, “Being under today’s net era is this even possible?” This lets me think of an insightful article from the net that I read before. It is a conversation between God and a man. In this article (partial excerpt):
The man asked God a question, “Tell me, why life has become complicated now?”
God answered, “Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.”
Then the man asked, “Why are we then constantly unhappy?”
“Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That’s why you are not happy.” God responded.
Interesting thing is that as of today, we still couldn’t overcome the habits of analyzing and worrying about our daily life. That is reason our life has become hectic and complicated and no wonder we couldn’t live a simple and happy life. In order to “live” a happy life without complication, the Bible taught us that:
- We need to know who “the Lord of all” is and follow His commands closely.
- “.. Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 不 要 為 生 命 憂 慮 吃 甚 麼 ， 喝 甚 麼 ； 為 身 體 憂 慮 穿 甚 麼 。 生 命 不 勝 於 飲 食 麼 ？ 身 體 不 勝 於 衣 裳 麼 ？” (Matthew 6:25)
- “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 你 們 要 先 求 他 的 國 和 他 的 義 ， 這 些 東 西 都 要 加 給 你 們 了 。” (Matthew 6:33)
Ultimately, we have to realize that it is our Lord who provides, protects and propitiates us. Our life would become complicated and unhappy if we couldn’t put our Lord in the right place in our hearts and subsequently, we couldn’t set our priority correctly. My dear brothers and sisters, do you still fell that you life is hectic and complicated? “Why not live a simple and happy life by entrusting your life in God’s hand?” Hope you can ponder upon this with me…..