The Guiding Gut and Instinct...

 

Resently, I enjoyed being an employee of a good Airline Company (if not the best) in Middle East. (Hahaha parang commercial & promotion lang noh?) This has been exciting as it is making me more of becoming adept with different kind of culture. My flexibility increases! ‘Really quite exciting to see different people in various clothes, backgrounds and/or nationalities. I’m seeing, meeting and learning a lot from them. I love looking at the pilots. (nag-imagine din akong maging piloto kasi nung araw eh) Their good bearing shows how secured and smart they are. They project safety among the passengers, as sometimes the aircraft they manipulate goes into a series of a not so good situations. And telling people to calm down as we’re only passing over a storm, draft or temporary condition is quite a job, you know—snatching the fear of flight or anything from them is also a gift to consider. Divah?! One must be high spirited, having a top confidence and very “truly” courageous to claim such.

Flying or being in the storm is a very dangerous experience. Even if you’re trained in such field, there will come a time that one would break his knees in panic when facing such. (kahit sino ka pa) It could mean big accidents, big fear of the unknown and death ultimately. And listen to this…, just found out that any pilot will tell you, never trust your instinct as that could and will be a prescription to a more disaster. Because if you rely on your feelings and instincts, you could possibly become disoriented.., thinking the plane is going up when it is actually is going down. Focus on the reliable aviation instruments panel as they are set to magnetic north and can be trusted every time accordingly. Letting your instruments guide you even when it feels like they’re wrong, helps secure safety in every storm.

Hmmm., Think about it, we all face storms that threatens to confuse and disorient us. It maybe a call from a doctor’s office, a friend who has betrayed you, a child that understand a little or could be a shattered dream. Those are times to be especially careful. ‘Got my drift? When we are blinded by life’s disappointments don’t trust your instincts. Flying and maneuvering by your own, in the storms of life can lead to despair, confusions and perhaps vengeful responses that makes matter worse. The loving God wants to guide you, and His Word is packed with wisdom and insights for living. Di ko sasabihin ito kung di ko naranasan. Truly, His Word is a shining lamp to our feet and light to our path. So where He leads is always right—oh yeah more correct that aviation instruments of pilots ehy?

Let’s go to our Bible and start trusting God wholly to guide us. He personally promises that instructions and teachings will flood us in the way we should go.

The closer we walk with God.., the clearer we see His guidance. Now that is true, now.., that’s a fact!

VERSE-MEAL:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye. Psalm 32:8

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Fire of Anger or Hunger..??

 An angry person is a person in pain!

The most common of human emotions is what we call “Anger”. Most of the time it is loud.., so loud that it fills the room, sometimes it is considered as a frequent response to pain, be it physical or emotional. Who hasn’t hit it lately? sino po ba?, at lalo nga akong ingat to the guys that handles anger in a very silent way at baka mailabas sa kung saan. It would be doubly harmful…may I say! Avoid walking in the middle of the night through the house barefoot? Kasi.., Anger is then triggered immediately followed who knows what?! ARUY! Inay ko po!

I see another thing.., these unpleasant or painful emotions also feel like an attack, forceful, hostile, violent, aggressive etc.., well let’s take “Shame”, as example, It is so painful and often provokes the greatest anger. Di bah? Being bullied by others or exposure to public disgrace can light a terrible fire inside a person that can probably consume him or others as the case maybe. Those personal rejections after rejections against one’s will can provoke dreadful rage. Hmmm…

Anger issues could be consider a poison that anybody can dwell or avoid. On some occasion, it is often they are sent by other people. And much has been reported that they are feeling frustrated, misunderstood, and even trapped into a whirling zone that eats them alive. Their uncalled-energy begin to dissipate. And… oh!, there’s a humor in some cases I believe….that gets to the best of us. HAHA!, and we find ourselves laughing-out-loud as well. Hmmm… medyo nabaling isip ko at napangiti….

Ahumm, in the process, the angry person could discover that “talking it out” to a good listener has great effect on it…doctor calls it “therapeutic value.” It’s like when I heat water on a container, I place it in fire and ensure that release valve is on and not tightly close., or else it might eventually explode. Di bah? Sino ba may gusto nun?!  People could be exactly the same. Gripping at the anger in a longest time is definitely not a good way to live…, ain’t wise, because, well, you know what is about to happen in great magnitude. Di bah?!, Getz mo ano?

In the aftermath, we can somehow compare anger to fire., kasi it can make our blood boil, burned relationship or blow-off steam di bah? Also sometimes it’s called thunder and as we warn others not to add fuel to the fire. By the way, it takes three things to make a fire namely, heat, oxygen, and fuel. Maniwala kayo as I’ve been a safety engineer myself in one of my operational experience hehehe. And if one of those elements is taken away, the fire goes out.

It is the same with anger. We could put it this way: those Heat are Offenses, the Oxygen are Perspective and the Fuel are the Grudges. Again…,remove just one of those away….then no fire will survive! Garantisado po iyun!

In the next post, I might include some elements of descriptions with practical action to do and to prevent fire, (thunder, fire or whatever you think)…from starting.

 Let your fire shine.., but not to burn anybody! Kaya ba natin? Naman…….

Kain ka muna at baka nagugutom ka lang.…smiles. Godspeed po sa inyong lahat!

VERSE-MEAL:
Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger Eph. 4:26

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Observance of Fidelity...

Honesty is the best policy, an old saying and maybe still the target of many.....towards themselves and others Hmmmm...

The moral reformation is the main source in the world for many good things, just like the introduction that I mentioned.., honesty, or it could be self-control or maybe generosity. These kind of changes enforce rules. One wants to obey out of self-interest or out of fear. Many have said that if you want to help people tell them the (painful) truth but if you want to help yourself, tell them what they wanna hear. Hmmmm, quite an intriguing thing or could be bothering to some.., divah??

For clear understanding, one good advise I heard suggested that we must have a very strong option in our mental, emotional and spiritual life.  This phrase underscores the seriousness of the choices we make because it recognizes the eternal potential of our relationships all year as well as the importance of our.., hmmm, eternity someday.

Our Lord Jesus is teaching us today that prayer is a discipline. To have a genuine honesty in prayer requires a commitment to make it a habit. To build the habit, do it first in bite size chunks, but do it regularly. And if we fall off the wagon and lose our momentum, just start over. After all source of our innermost is in Him alone.

And too embrace such notions of love in the best of ways is to do so consciously, as an ongoing practice---throughout our lives. That means accepting and embracing there must be a self-directed curbs on one's behavior!, probably in some cases, some people (perhaps not all) are really acting consciously from its power and having a desire for the other's happiness and health. Whew..., need to belong there, Divah??

Loyalty, only takes satisfaction in following through on selective expressions of concerns for other persons. Fidelity, in contrast, takes satisfaction in living up to pre-existing principles and commitments made. Hmmm, many are talking about conjugal faithfulness. Man's wisdom ehy!

Kahit po ako, sa tanda kong ito eh naguguluhan......(smiles), but really it helps to insert them in my action and thoughts.., I mean to practice fidelity be a part of our dealings any day. Adhere to the facts that our Lord uttered and continuously saying in our lives. Divah?

It's our ball now........

VERSE-MEAL:
“I will espouse you in fidelity, and you shall know the LORD” Hosea 2:16

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Hmmm, Immortality Consciousness? Have You?

 

"I don’t know about the future and what it will hold for me, all I know is JESUS is holding my future!"

Such words that ensures security. Such sight that somehow guarantees safety. It signifies protection, provisions and guidance, among other things. In spite of such enormity, I still get caught in doubts and more doubts as I walk along this highway of worldly clichés. Conformity with the arranged warranty still escape my confused overthinking mind.

Still I get anxious, still I worry about it and still I’m afraid of what it would bring…, somehow. Do you? Have you? Should you? There’s so much in the future we don’t know, in as much as we don’t control. And this creates fear and more…. Tsk, ganito ba tumatanda? I often asks myself.

But then…. The old saying struck me, “ God is soo good!” Oh indeed He is….!! I was encouraged, strengthened and lifted with such  great assurance. He held and perpetually holds me. He build fence that establish and certifies. He even sprinkled those with His own blood. Oh! My teary eyed attacks again….! Aahh! His call for whole attention rings loud and formed a round hand used to embrace me quite tight. Aahh! (again….)

And I remember an old teacher who used to say that: “I am immortal until my work is finished.” I try to recall what that meant?, but my memory limits me. Do you know what that meant? Have you also heard that? Now what!!? Hmmm, yet still a refreshing air comes by to help me unlock such lines of metaphor or what you may call it. It reveal that… “One cannot die until God’s work for you is complete.”---Immortality ehy?--- And I cannot die until God’s purpose for my life has been fulfilled. So you & I are immortal until God’s time. And that precise meaning rings aloud particularly within! This ain’t just a teacher saying, it show and shines the truth from His Word. “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” It’s in Psalm, I believe. And even before we were born, our loving God had already written down in his book how each of our days was going to go.

That my dears doesn’t mean life will always be good and easy. That doesn’t mean we’ll all gonna live into a ripe, old age. Life might be hard, or it might be shorter. We might face hunger or sickness or accident or war. But through it all, you can be confident, assured and established of this: No one can change what the Lord Jesus Christ has ordained for you. Oh yeah!, you heard me right! He is your Lord---right?

Then…, let it come!, as my tormenting worries, plaguing anxieties and disturbing thoughts have now been replaced by confirmed certainty, changeless promises and clear assurances, even when that last day comes!

Through Jesus, our last day is really just our first day of immortality in heaven. So, let us persist to live here, until God permits it! Live confidently! Immortalized your life by living for Him.

Godspeed!

VERSE-MEAL:
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were appointed for me, When as yet there was not one of them [even taking shape]. Ps. 139:16 AMP

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