Basic Instruction No1
While we are still free to choose we must choose and choose very carefully.
We do have a choice and that choice must be to live as full a life as possible.
This would require the continuous development and use of natural-born
talents. All natural-born things unwaveringly head towards more life to
all and therefore our choice too should lead first to a better life for us and
simultaneously to a better life for all who happen to cross our paths.
To act in such manner will require a huge dose of humility and this is where
basic instruction number one - FEAR...of the Lord comes in.
When we ponder on the imponderables and realise our insignificance - it will
hardly matter whether I will be alive or dead before this day is through - we
are faced with the choice of humility or arrogance. Ignoring this fact is also
an arrogance. But this humility is not the humility of a beggar who bows his
head before all men, this humility is a liberating humility, bowing head before
no man and...allowing no man to bow his head before you.
The only place where bowing is to be done is before the Lord. And there to the
bowing is in the form of revelling in the greatness of His creation, acknowledging
reverently how immeasurably great the smallest part of creation we can register
is and thanking for every little bit that is revealed to us.
So FEAR is No.1
We do have a choice and that choice must be to live as full a life as possible.
This would require the continuous development and use of natural-born
talents. All natural-born things unwaveringly head towards more life to
all and therefore our choice too should lead first to a better life for us and
simultaneously to a better life for all who happen to cross our paths.
To act in such manner will require a huge dose of humility and this is where
basic instruction number one - FEAR...of the Lord comes in.
When we ponder on the imponderables and realise our insignificance - it will
hardly matter whether I will be alive or dead before this day is through - we
are faced with the choice of humility or arrogance. Ignoring this fact is also
an arrogance. But this humility is not the humility of a beggar who bows his
head before all men, this humility is a liberating humility, bowing head before
no man and...allowing no man to bow his head before you.
The only place where bowing is to be done is before the Lord. And there to the
bowing is in the form of revelling in the greatness of His creation, acknowledging
reverently how immeasurably great the smallest part of creation we can register
is and thanking for every little bit that is revealed to us.
So FEAR is No.1