Living Life Series 2: Pride goes before a fall

The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord (武天) Bo Tien. The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affliliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Pride goes before a fall

Learning Point 220

Many hopefuls in a temple or church in time will deteriorate or backslide because they focus on men and not God and saints. Some of them may even be undoing the good they have done, not from lack of faith but from lack of embodiment of doctrine. They think that only they are right and they want to act for God.

They may unfortunately be far from being correct, all because they worship doctrine but do not effect it in their lives, in their thinking, in their actions and in their speech. They claim to champion Heaven --- to champion God, Truth and saints.

But they are championing their pride instead. In the battle of pride, everyone is loser. They throw a spanner or two into life, not only into others' lives but invariably their own as well. They hope to right the wrong but how right are they in the first place?

Pride goes before a fall. Many a pride cover those who seek spiritual truth. Only the handful wise reach fulfilment of wisdom. The truth of life is simple but difficult to perceive for those with pride and egos too big for their shoes.

Blinded thus by pride, how can they see the truth in life? How many falls must they have before they rid off the burden of pride? Men of faith are like "pharisees" and often blinded by pride, all because they think they know better and keep their noses high. May God help them and save their souls. But God can only help those who help themselves.

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NOTEWORTHY INFORMATION

A number of the pointers given by Lord Bo Tien in his messages were somehow edited out in the year 2000 publication LORD BO TIEN'S GUIDANCE as they were deemed inappropriate, either deemed not correct or not unnderstandable because the grasp and understanding years ago were lacking. Thank Heaven that the historical versions were saved by the late Senior Brother Chong Sim in his draft book My Interpretation of LORD BO TIEN MESSAGES. He obtained nine years of the messages from Brother Peter Kong. Brother Peter Kong had done a great meritorious deed in handling the historical translated scripts of the messages to Chong Sim. The historical versions can be read at Bo Tien Temple Outreach at http://www.livinglifeseries5.blogspot.com/

Dated this 9th December 2012