Should We Only Pray During The Most Difficult Times in Our lives?
When the difficult times of our lives come, we start to seek the presence of the Lord. When the sickness comes, we start to be faithful towards the Lord for we want Him to give us the cure. When the failure comes, we start to be faithful towards the Lord for we want him to erase the disappointment from us. When the betrayal comes, we seek to Him because that's the only time we appreciate His intangible existence. When everything falls apart, that's the only time where we become faithful to him. But what about when we have everything we need in life? Are we still going to think about God?
I used to be the person who doubts the existence of God. When I hear people talking about Him, I will just laugh in my mind because they're talking about something that was never be seen. Something that was never been proven. I always think the existence of the Lord is only a fragment of mankind's imagination. That when we become hopeless we need to create our imaginary savior.
But the time comes in my life where I am tested by the faith. I have been dragged down below and no one is there to save me. I have question a lot of the things happening in my life and the people who have taken me for granted. I am living in kindness and I thought it was enough to thank life but I am wrong.
What do we get from being faithful to the unseen being?
Sometimes I wonder if God really exist because I see a lot of people suffering even they have live a righteous life. While the people who are living a life in a sinful manner are enjoying almost everything here on the world even they live without a single faith. But this is something I should never question. We are living a temporary life only and everything that we possess now won't lasts forever. We don't know that the people who are living a pleasurable life right now will be living a misery life in afterlife while those who have chose to live a righteous way will be rewarded after the life here. This is what I always think as I believe in the karmic law.
I told myself that I will not live a materialistic kind of life. While it's easy to be attracted from the worldly things, I know by myself that they are impermanent. When we depart from our body, we don't carry anything. I want to focus living a more spiritual life and when I say spiritual, it means a life with the presence of divine. I prayed for a guardian angel who will protect me and my family all the time. I believe guardian angels are real but not everyone are given them, especially if you are a person who is not virtuous in this world.
Is it to see is to believe?
It's hard to prove God's existence because he doesn't have a body and a face. How can we answer the question to see is to believe if God is a soul and no one will ever see him. Even you're the most brilliant scientist in this world, you will never be able to prove God's existence because he cannot be seen and will never be seen. He only exist but he will never be seen.
I do not want to pray just because I really need God to answer my prayer immediately. I call it hypocrisy for calling someone above just because you want your wishes to be granted. When you are happy and you almost have everything in life, you start to think that you don't need God. I respect the people who never believe and it's their choice. I believe that not everything in this world needs to be seen. This is why faith exist. Your sufferings have a merit, do not think that you are only born to suffer in this world because your humbleness will be rewarded in another life.
I do not want to seek God just because I'm weak and sick already. I do not want to seek God just because I am entirely broken. I do not want to seek God just because I became a failure. I do not want to seek God just because I feel that I have no choice but to surrender my life. I am going to seek God everyday in my life through the good times and the bad times. Through the happiness and the sadness because that is what we call the faith towards the unseen.
June 15, 2022
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Praying always was a mandate given to us by our messiah. But most believers only pray when things are not going too well with them and when things are going fine, everyone just want to focus on the good Time and forgets to pray anymore.
Praying always is the surest thing to do