"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
the time on my computer is wrong again!!!! hahahahha =D so wrong, it's not even funny anymore lol!!!! (too hyper on a friday nite)
anywayz... i have a point to all of these non-sense.
Although I never experienced child abuse... i read it in "Jane Eyre". Although I never starved myself (except for 30 hour famine), I have seen the horrific pics of holocaust. I guess I went thru "discrimination" hahah sorry i had to use such a big word, but it was nothing compare to what the black ppl went thru in the 50's and 60's and prolly continue to encouter even now. i got a sense of it in history class.
There is somthing mysterious about the "poor", the "lowly"...because they are RICH! AND I mean really RICH spiritually! They've got this amazing faith in the midst of all the sufferings. They are happier than the ppl who seem to have "everything" in the world.
Below is one poor black woman's statement.. and I wonder is she really "poor" at all?:
"My will isn't what matters; it's His. If He wants me to suffer like this, I guess HE has His reasons. You're here to prove your trust in HIm. If someone offered me a million dollars, and said I could have all I want to eat for myself and my children, but I'd have to stop thinking about Him and start thinking of myself only, then I'd know I was in real trouble...."
It's a pretty stupid thing to whine... to grumble... although it is in my sinful nature. ppl who are way less fortunate than I are able to hold on to Jesus... b/c that's all they have left. They don't come to pray to God b/c they can't sleep (like me), they come to God b/c HE is their source of inspiration. Forget about Zen buddism saying there is no logic, no suffering. The sufferings are real! the lil girls raped by their fathers! the ppl starving to death everyday! the lepers, the blind! I "see" them everywhere, present or the past... yet in the midst of all these, God asks us to smile... to smile and notice the good things of the world. We live in a tainted image of the perfect world God intended us to live in.. and we are not comfortable in this world b/c this is not home. But although the image is tainted, it still got good things in it. Although ppl are sinful, we are still made in the image of God.
But most importantly... we got heaven. Heaven proves that all the sufferings in the world are worth it!
That's y uncle tom had the "sacred delight" during those dark ages, b/c he says he's closer to Jesus when he suffers. And all the "poor" would be much closer to Him in the kingdom of heaven.
This acts as a reminder for me... so that in whatever bad circumstances I will be in. I will be able to learn to smile, learn to hold on to Jesus, learn to stop grumbling, stop focusing on the bad things and notice that God is still here...He never left us. And He is gonna come back to restore His new kingdom again!! Live as if He's gonna come back tomorrow, that way .. my geo marks would not matter much anymore lol!!! ahaha.. i am hungry.. gotta eat something hehe