between fear and hope-Integraty is doing things right when no one is whatching
Fear is one important thing in this contemporary time when things goes from worst to worst everyday despite the triumph of human civilization .Fear is a painful state of mind that generate undesirable things like burning the fire in fear of future calamity, he who has cemented love with God and whose hearth is strong with truth and illuminated with brightness of truth find himself in a condition is above fear or hope .in another world when the a lover is engrossed in the sight of beloved, fear of separation and hope of sight are injurious to him. The object of fear is to give encouragement to action.
Causes of fears are knowledge, state and action, the cause of knowledge arise in owing to undesirable act, and where the more powerful is the act the more is the fear. On the other hand the fear of God arises from knowledge of HIS signs- the more we know about God the more we will be able to fear HIM and do the right thing.
The person that fear things flee away from it, while the person who fear God flees to HIM. What a statement, Sign of fear can be sense in pain expressed in bodily organ, weeping with then met bitterness or reduction in intellect and growing failure. It is also true that the person that weeps and wipes out tears is not a fearful person, but a fearful person is he who gives up object of fear of punishment.
Stages of fears
• Fear for sins- is fear of abstaining from unlawful things and things full of doubt- this is lowest level. The man who is healthy fears God because of his sins. through the fruit of 'knowledge' of God, and the chief objects of his fear are predestination and the evil of the Seal
• Fear of God – is fear of sins at the same time fear of remembering God every minute – this is high level, here people live with secure. The inner sight of one who has known Him is stronger than his sight of open eyes.
There is no doubt that spiritual ills will help keep the community in good spiritual health. However, unnecessary fear is not good, we must be certain, we can just accept anything because it is authority – we most know what is really behind it , and it is our responsibility to find out in order to have crystal clear on what we can call sin – Fear of the of God can derive only from perfection of ‘knowledge’. and of course listening tour conscience.
Fear may be deficient or excessive and what is desiderated is the middle way between these two extremes. Deficient fear produces no more than sentimental regret; effective fear restrains the members from disobedience and binds them to obedience and "whatever does not take effect in the members is no more than an impulse and fleeting motion which does not deserve the name of fear.
“ the most honorable of you is one who is most God fearing” what a an heavy statement, should all draw wisdom from this, weather we are white, black read, the best among us are those that fear God , because hey will do things right they will care for the community , they will not lie to people, they will love. The statement tells us that not even the rich should be fear, but those that truly fear God. In fearing God we find the advantage that whatever comes after our end is good fortune and we can only get this through HIS love, and getting His love can only be attained though knowing Him and knowing is not possible without constant thought about Him. A God fearing person is a person with guidance, grace, knowledge, and pleasure. Everything fear one who fear God, and God shows fear from everything to one who fear others. So watch out for paranoiacs.people of goodwill is God fearing people.
Fearing God is the root of all wisdom, people that fear God will do goodwill that He is looking for. Moses said those who fear God the got the highest knowledge. from time to time we will make mistake, but as long as we can fear the punishment and hope for forgiveness we can be rest assure to get back online.
Fear also has effect on behaviour, is differentiated into different ranks or degrees according to its mode of regulating behaviour. If it is an incentive only to chastity, it possesses a degree. Higher in merit is the fear which produces abstinence and higher still that which produces piety.
It is always better to stay within the middle. Fear is good especially the fear of God, its benefit lie in giving up to up to unlawful and doubtful thing, but too much fear is not good If grow disease, weakness, senselessness, loss of intellect and memory. The ultimate of all fear is the fear of the END- the end truly justify the means – how we end it what matter most and we must adjust things so that towards a good a end. It is also important to fear what is written in our fate. This brings us to question of the seal.
Seal
The Seal is the confirmation of what has been predestined for a man, and its influence is multiplied by this tie-up with the mystery of predestination everything hinges on the state dominating a man's heart at the instant in which death finds him, but, whereas the major Seal is irrevocable, it is not entirely impossible to make amends.
• Major- derives from apostasy and doubt- This is caused by 1) erroneous belief concerning God which cannot be mitigated by practical piety; 2) weakness of faith in the root. With respect to the first cause it may operate through a man's active participation through his acceptance on authority of the results of speculation.
• Minor- domination of the heart by worldly affairs and lusts - this is causes by much 1) disobedience and 2) weakness of faith. The fact that we can loose ourselves in sleep enters new worlds and wake up again to real life is a sign of the most probable that we enter new world after our death, and the throes of death, as a time of disclosure, akin to dreams. As the images of dreams reflect the objects seen in waking-life, so the images associated with the throes of death will reflect those activities and preoccupations which have been the familiars of a man throughout his life, for a man dies as he has lived.
It is important for human to apprehend God, and have self-authenticating insight. The only way to succeed the root of assurance about fear and hope is only through patience and accompanying it is spiritual combat and utter devotion to God outwardly and inwardly. And for the person to whom the Way has been opened up there can be no way after spiritual combat except guidance and 'knowledge', and only the way of love and intimacy can succeed 'knowledge'; and following necessarily on love is satisfaction with the action of the Beloved and confidence in His care which is trustfulness. Human who has outgrown fear and hope are those whose heart is ruled by truth and who live in the present through his seeing the majesty of truth perpetually.
Furthermore, today’s world is masked with tense division of heart geared towards pursuit of mere games and pleasures, a world where that has put human in dark hour of peril by making thousands to die for a few or even to be taxed the impoverish to death for the International Golf Championship, a world where nation have never learn how to cut trousers according to their waste. And much more social cancers which have further cause so much harm to the value of human and healthy social system.
Human civilization have come all the way so far, thus it finally took a different cause after the renaissance that led to death of puritan, the believe in institution of science that lead to the building of pioneer citadel of learning like oxford- there is no doubt that this is achievement in our civilization, but the problem remain that large part of product of deviate from objectives of producing greater humanist. Because large part only learns vice of arrogance, arrogance is truly the beginning of human downfall- arrogance that leads situation where nation that has nothing but full of amusements cannot expect to be amused for very long, amusements are at least as narrow as the devotions and dedications. Social characters that emerged out of the mediaeval into the modern world, created modern problem of keeping the company together at all. Are we missing something, may be- the curriculum in our universities are fine- they are made as foundation material on which we all must build on top- every human must learn how to reborn themselves- harmonization of faith is a prerequisite for individual to seek the reality of God by themselves.
As you can see fear and hope are interconnected, sometime weeping come from fear while hope and pleasure come from love. We should fear God and Hope to Him. Fear and hope are not contradictory to each other, but are interdependent and complementary therapies. Supposition derives from the imbalance of fear and hope, representing an intensification of either fear or hope, depending on which is the dominant partner. The 'health' of the community required us to have people that will emphasize balance and in the alleviation of fear and augmentation of hope.
Despair itself is and not fear is the opposite of hope, despair should be treated with the therapy of hope in the same way as excessive fear is to be treated. we believed must hope for the best all the time, because hoping keep the creature happy that at least. To this hopelessness is like sin.
And above all we must give the most respect, to only those who fear God – fearing God means those who have genius feeling for human – the simplest analogy I can give to this is –as follow
When these meet the creator:
1) He has no vine service, but he has been good to humanity – he helped people all the time- the Creator said” today you deserves My mercy.”, at least despite that slack , He fear and he was hopeful.
2) He has so much divine service-but he is very cruel-the creator was very angry – the Creator told him “why you treat my creatures like that, today I deny My mercy. may be he does not believe that he will meet the Creator, and he did not bother to find out , he just want live and does not care about people and the planet.
3) He- when things happen to him , H e refused to give up to hope- He will get there , at least he has patient and remain hopeful, and believe that the Creator love us and He give us things we deserve whether bad or good to safeguard us.
This tells us that evil a complete synonym to hypocrisy does not pay at all, – hypocrisy has to do with making deference between what is open and what is secret that the tongue and the hearth are no the same, that the inner and outer thing are not the same, it is peculiar to those who love one who does an oppressive act, and to get dissatisfaction with truth other trademark for evil people, irrespective of whether they pray or not are:
• Speaking falsehood
• Breaking promise
• Breaking thrust
• Doing wrong at the time of dispute
To this end, don’t fear of evils is the one that cause pain and ,make people you flee them, but fear of God bring you closer to Him and give much more reliability – and this highlight a big difference between man and God. And when you want to choose your best friend make you choose those that do thing through fear of God, people that do things through fear of God, will never hurt you, because they will remember their doing God mission and they will account for how they treat you. and above all ,the best among us rae thos ethat fear God and hope in HIM, wether you are white or black or red - we must remember that integrity is doing right when no one is watching an dthis come out of fear of God hope in HIM.
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