Grief has a way of shaping you and turning your attention away from the busyness of life to what really matters. People in today's fast-paced culture do not stop long enough to contemplate the significant questions of life.
What is important in life?
Look at the big picture. Your life on earth encompasses a short time frame when compared to eternal life. You are an eternal being. You are made to live forever. Keep this in perspective.
So the question best asked is, what is important in this life that will extend into eternity?
It is important to live life in the light of the world to come: When you really embrace the world to come and bring it back into the world of your own life, everything is radically rearranged. One of the things that is rearranged is your values. For instance, this world tends to value self, tends to value things, and tends to value accomplishment and personal success.
When you're really committed to the world to come and understand the depth and importance of it, you begin to value other things---like people. People are the only things going on to eternity. So I tend to value people around me differently. I see them in light of their own eternal destiny.
The other side to that is that 'human beings' (people) could stand in your way to this eternity we are talking about. I had so many experiences with different people at all levels, and concluded that.
We need to be discerning both spiritually and physically to know the depth of the people you have around you. Never take people for face value, never! If you could open the minds of people, and see the totality of who they are, you may not want to relate with anyone. At a stage in my life, I got so tired of getting disappointed in the ways people turn around that I went and enrolled for a course in Human Psychology. I was just curious to understand human behaviors generally. The in-depth knowledge in that subject made me conclude that I will never take unserious people seriously again. Agape love (with caution) being the yardstick.
We cannot live in the forests with trees and shrubs, not in the ocean with fishes and whales, we still have to live with 'people', then we have to learn to manage them in order to live in the big picture.
Do not be uninformed about life's significance.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
"It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart".
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