Heart of the Wise

Due to the prevalence of poverty, many preachers and professed 'Christians' have made a priority of prosperity over and above authentic spirituality (the simple, honest and wholehearted devotion to Christ that yields Christ-likeness or the fruit of the Spirit, which is in all goodness, righteousness and truth). To be clear, it is righteousness  (with its integral elements of social justice and cultural ethics, in a sociocultural and socioeconomic context)  that exalts a nation. Sin or lawlessness is a reproach to any society. Thus, an altogether prosperous nation, abundant in resources of varied sorts, without social justice and cultural ethics (namely, the culture of rightness, uprightness or righteousness), will be ruined by entrenched and endemic corruption and social injustice, largely through misappropriation of funds and mismanagement of their abundant and varied resources. True wisdom and understanding is the practical application of the principles ...

Life is beautiful To those who are beautiful Life is beautiful If seen through eyes of beauty Life becomes beautiful If we become beautiful We can make ourselves beautiful To see through eyes of beauty Think about this for a moment: “Life is beautiful.” Do you believe this to be true? Life is beautiful to those who are beautiful and if seen through eyes of beauty.”   What does this mean? Does it mean that the “ beauty of life is in the eyes of the beholder of life” ? Life can actually take on a beautiful meaning for an individual, if that individual has learned to become “beautiful” on the inside.  Character ethics proponent, Stephen Covey, made this revolutionary statement: “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are, or as we are conditioned to see it.” This holds true because it is not what we see going on around us that matters most. There’s only a legitimate extent to what we can possibly do to change people or to control ...