not to bring myself attention, just a lesson I learned Investigating my thoughts, they say everything happens for a reason, So I started thinking about my life. When I was around 7 years old.I stayed in the hood with my dad, step brother, and step mom. We didnt have much. We migrated a lot because it was hard for us to pay rent. It got to the point where we had to stay in different hotels for some weeks and some family members home as well. I remember one time when we didnt pay the hotel in time and they cleaned us out, but I digress, I had to wear the same pair of pants for a whole week and it was the last week of school, I was embarrassed. I didt want to speak or talk to anybody because, I was afraid they would notice. But one of my friends came up to me and said in a low tone, he noticed I had worn the same pants that whole week. So I laughed even though on the inside I was humiliated, but he said it was cool, because he knew how it felt. That gave me an burst of uplifting for that moment and the day went on. Not to get stuck on that story but I realized I was embarrassed not because I wore the same pants the whole week, but I felt ashamed, and when you feel ashamed you experience thoughts like nobody loves me, loneliness, disappointment, etc. So this could lead to two things depression or correction. I wanted to feel better but I wasnt wise enough to teach myself that lesson because my way of teaching would been to tell myself even though I think I have enough I will make it seems as if I have more, which is a DECEPTION to people and when you deceive people you get the wrong kind of attention. These days we call it flexing. A Wise counsel would have said. It doesnt matter what you have because all material things are temporary, just focus on becoming who you want to be when you grow up then you can have what you please if you work for it. (Timothy 6: 9-10) Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. I stumbled across this scripture and it hit me.when I was growing up I always wanted to be rich so It would APPEAR that I am happy, but if I was motivated by that depressing experience than some of the things I have done to get to this point would have been for the wrong reasons. In addition, people who pray to God with intentions of Wanting to be a better person for the reasons of having better things is a DECEPTION to God. (john 16:24)Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. The first and my favorite book I ever read was Proverbs, book of wisdom. They mentioned Solomon the King who had everything a person could want and was everything a person could be, WISE. The first thing he ask God for was WISDOM(the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment). I realized a lot of people struggle when it comes to believing in God, and moving forward in their lives. Why dont they just pray for wisdom? I have found myself wanting to be smarter and finding a way to do what I love instead of chasing money. Im not their yet but in due time I will have my reward. I respect the people who had build from the bottom up, work for everything, and didnt have to ask for many favors because they knew they would overcome because that is whats make a person rich, by what they LEARNED from their mistakes or failures.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:08:18 +0000
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