Many people cannot handle sufferings, whatever sufferings they might be, whether in the areas of family, sickness in the body or emotionally.. They just can't take it!! But sufferings are constant in our life, like it or not it will definitely fall upon you.. It is just a matter of time.. You can be a person that is no deserving of all these sufferings, you live your whole life doing nothing wrong, but bad things still happen to you.. Why?? Because that's what life is all about, you got to learn how to handle it!

What are some sufferings that will definitely happen to you no matter who you are? One of the most common one is temptation.. Do not tell me you are not tempted before, because this is a lie!! It can be from many different aspects of your life.. You might be struggling to overcome the temptation that you are facing now.. But you got to learn how to overcome it.. How?? You have to know what is right and what is wrong! Are you doing the wrong thing?? Once you know that what you are doing is wrong, you are already halfway through in overcoming your temptation.. You also got to believe that you are able to overcome it.. Once you learn how to overcome one temptation, you will be able overcome it again and again and again!!

A lot of people in the world cannot suffer living in harsh conditions!! They can be the most successful, influential or richness person in the world, but they are still unable to cope living in a much smaller house and eating in a hawker center!! That is why more and more people are committing suicide.. A high percentage of the people that committed suicide today are people from these areas!! When they lost their assets overnight, they just cannot humble themselves to live a simple life.. They cannot handle the fact that they have to start all over again!! That is why you got to be ready all the time.. Ready for what?? You got to be ready that one day everything that you have will be taken away!! Once you are ready, than you are always prepared, and when it really happened to you, you will learn how to live with it and to start everything all over again!!

Lastly, the trials in life.. You got to understand that trials are only for a season, and this season when you are going through it, patience and perseverance will be build into your soul.. Your capacity to endure increased, and you became bigger on the inside.. Trials will definitely come but it will definitely go as well.. Trials come so that we can come forth as gold!! Once you understand that, any trails can come but you will be still and unshaken because you know it has come to strengthen and not to destroy you.. Your attitude determines your altitude!!

Kok tiong | 10/18/2009 11:25:00 PM