There are times in life when your liberty became your stumbling block. You’ve been treated with a rod and became sensitive to light. Shackles have been your collar for a long time with its rusty chain. So it is natural that it has been dragging you backward. That rod had made your life miserable. You’ve been abused, misused and overused by that rod. It caused your heart to be bitter and planted revenge in mind. That harsh race made you point the sword you use to wield gracefully to your own self. It made you felt like you are boiling in rage. It stirred an inward revolution in your soul and had cause grief to your spirit. As a result the coal that feed your hatred heated a raging fire. Because you have been treated with a rod, you want to do the same to the people around you.
The word love is never a tale or a myth. It is a feeling that holds thousands of miracles. Yet some take it for granted and trample it. Even the cripple know how to value it. Sadly some did not experience to be showered by love. Some never even encountered it. Love comes from various shape and little things, that if you are dense and is sightless enough to notice you will miss it. Love exist, it’s just some does not know how to express it.
For example is that you felt like you are a boat in the middle of a vast and deep ocean. Then you are confused which way to go. You would start to get weary because you know yourself that you are stuck. Then one day something change your life and it you made experience the peace brought by love. Then it hit you! You are not the boat you are the ocean that is vast and untouchable. The main reason why you did not realize it sooner is because you were focusing too much on that hard rod or not of the love that is given and offered to you.
How will you save a person that is about to fall in the pit of darkness? How will you rescue someone who is drowning in the pit of the snare? How will you turn those black spot into white?
First of all you should always let love prevail. Do not let your inequities consume you! Never submit yourself to the indifferences. Take a deep breath! Then think of the consequences of your action. Do I have to use words that are handful? Can’t I deal with it more gently? Is rising my voice will help solve the problem? Check your heart do not give in to your rage.
Second do not let the Rod be harder than it is. Try to use it against yourself before you use it to others. Then examine the feeling it gives. Does it hurt? Does it felt good? Don’t smitten it with something that will cause more disaster.
Third overcome your background. Refine yourself! Let go of the thing that’s been holding you back. Cut those thorns that is piercing you! Pour it out. Do not let yourself be part of that sour vinegar be a honey that is sweet and is sticky to those it touch. Be the rose that brings fragrance to life.
Then Rebuke with Love. If they fail you comfort them do not get mad. If they wrong you smoothly talk about it, do not emphasize! If the hurt you, gently confront them. Avoid raising your voice. If they break you forgive them and pray for them. You do not know what circumstances they are in. If they do not care about you, still have care for them. They might need it more than you do.
Lastly pray for a heart that is flexible to adjust in any situation. Pray for a heart that contains pure love and is willing to be refilled when needed. For a heart that overflows with love have no room for a rod.
So how will you save those who are in the pinnacle of unhappiness? How will you stretch your arms to those who are outcast? How will you treat those are in verge of dying and had been in the pot of hell they are in?
Is it with a rod or in love?