Many are those who go to the house of God all because they want fellowship and a sense that all will be well if they are sheltered by God and the saints.
For religions to catch the attention of the lot, they have to be innovative and re-invent and to be able to capture attention. How else can they do so except to use the same very ways of the world that make them feel that sense of void amid abundance? Yes, these are the ways that attract them to God through the house of God.
God is in everyone or as the Buddhists would say there is the Buddha nature in everyone. But men overwhelmed by the material world, cannot see and let alone feel the immaterial divine God and his saints.
Men cannot see the only one tree of Divinity in the vast pasture of life but men can see the forest of trees if the forest is big and attractive enough. But once men go to the forest, they get tangled with the many trees and wonders of the forest and will still miss the tree of Divinity.
This simple parable or analogy explains why men in the house of God may still feel the absence of the substantiality of God though they may be awed and carried away by the forest of trees.
They may feel secure in the forest but are still clueless where God or the tree of Divinity is. They mistake the forest of trees that is the beliefs, practices, the dogmas and the ways of charismatic men as God and as evidence of God.
Religions and sects do their worthy roles to catch the eyes of men to the vast forest comprising the paraphernalia, the very eye catching activities and antics of men of religions and sects. But then men must know how to separate and decipher these from God.
The danger nowadays is that men may be clueless and may even feel lost in the house of God. They think they know God and saints when all they know are the forest of activities and men of religions and sects but they have yet to know God.
The trees of the forest catch their attention but having reached the forest, they need to know where is God and not just be awed by activities and men in the houses men created in the name of God.
Thus many may be clueless and lost in the house of God. In reality, God is in them and in their hearts. The house of God created by men should instead of sidetracking them from God and saints, awaken the presence of God and saints in their hearts.
Otherwise, they would be clueless and lost in the house of God. That would indeed be ironical. The institutional buzz and hive of human activities are meant to attract them to God and not make them be clueless and lost in the forest of activities.
Let not men or activities stand between God and the heart of every man, more so in the house of God, or rather the house of man for God. It would be pathetic if a man ended up clueless and lost in the house of God.
Lord Bo Tien said that the whole world is a temple or house of God, and the various religions are the pillars. All men are in the universal temple or house of God.
Yet, because of being caught up by fellow men and the myriad activities, they don't even know they are in the house of God. They ask where is God? They are clueless and lost in the house of God.
Worse still, they end up adoring and idolizing men rather than God and saints, just because these men can speak well and rouse their emotion. They are even ready to part with money and life when so aroused. Men may then end up terrorizing fellow men in the name of God.
That will be cult-like and unbecoming. But what to expect when men can be carried away and be lost and clueless of who is God and who is man. This can and has happened in the house of God.
Thus in any mission-related temple of Bo Tien Mission, all must know who is man and who is saint. No one should mistake the medium or Elder Ling, the anointed leader as the lord saint. Man is man and saint is saint.
But till this very day and year 2013 and for many generations to come, there will always be those who will end up seeing a man as saint or idolizing another man instead of the lord saint.
Some even act as though they are better than the lord saint and the saint better take a back seat and they be the saint's mouth piece. Perhaps it is obvious that they and the many others are clueless and lost in the house of God.
Do not by any stretch of imagination belittle them though, for however good we may be, we did or do commit the same folly at some time in our life. They are just like us and we like them though we may insist we are different at this point of time.
Point one finger at others and three fingers point back at us. Those who crucify others will end up crucifying themselves. So do not be too happy to say others are clueless and lost in the house of God.
We all are or were or will be. All have to learn and be wiser from the learning. Lord Bo Tien did say that we need to learn from our own weaknesses and from that of our fellow men. Any saint or prophet would say the same.
So what if we or others are clueless and lost in the house of God? Isn't this part and parcel of the learning process.
To be lost and clueless in the house of God can be both good and not good. Isn't this the case? Well you the readers have to decide.
Ask Elder Ling Diung Kwong and he will give you a earful and you may wish you never ask him in the first place. But never say he is wrong for he may well be as right as you though you hold different perspectives from him.
Cheers and Omitofo.
Otherwise, they would be clueless and lost in the house of God. That would indeed be ironical. The institutional buzz and hive of human activities are meant to attract them to God and not make them be clueless and lost in the forest of activities.
Let not men or activities stand between God and the heart of every man, more so in the house of God, or rather the house of man for God. It would be pathetic if a man ended up clueless and lost in the house of God.
Lord Bo Tien said that the whole world is a temple or house of God, and the various religions are the pillars. All men are in the universal temple or house of God.
Yet, because of being caught up by fellow men and the myriad activities, they don't even know they are in the house of God. They ask where is God? They are clueless and lost in the house of God.
Worse still, they end up adoring and idolizing men rather than God and saints, just because these men can speak well and rouse their emotion. They are even ready to part with money and life when so aroused. Men may then end up terrorizing fellow men in the name of God.
That will be cult-like and unbecoming. But what to expect when men can be carried away and be lost and clueless of who is God and who is man. This can and has happened in the house of God.
Thus in any mission-related temple of Bo Tien Mission, all must know who is man and who is saint. No one should mistake the medium or Elder Ling, the anointed leader as the lord saint. Man is man and saint is saint.
But till this very day and year 2013 and for many generations to come, there will always be those who will end up seeing a man as saint or idolizing another man instead of the lord saint.
Some even act as though they are better than the lord saint and the saint better take a back seat and they be the saint's mouth piece. Perhaps it is obvious that they and the many others are clueless and lost in the house of God.
Do not by any stretch of imagination belittle them though, for however good we may be, we did or do commit the same folly at some time in our life. They are just like us and we like them though we may insist we are different at this point of time.
Point one finger at others and three fingers point back at us. Those who crucify others will end up crucifying themselves. So do not be too happy to say others are clueless and lost in the house of God.
We all are or were or will be. All have to learn and be wiser from the learning. Lord Bo Tien did say that we need to learn from our own weaknesses and from that of our fellow men. Any saint or prophet would say the same.
So what if we or others are clueless and lost in the house of God? Isn't this part and parcel of the learning process.
To be lost and clueless in the house of God can be both good and not good. Isn't this the case? Well you the readers have to decide.
Ask Elder Ling Diung Kwong and he will give you a earful and you may wish you never ask him in the first place. But never say he is wrong for he may well be as right as you though you hold different perspectives from him.
Cheers and Omitofo.
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