SUPRESSION, NOT EXPRESSION

Daily Devotions

365 Daily Supplements For The Heart
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Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV)

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Ang pinag-uusapan kaya dito ay yung aorta, yung may kung anu-anong mga chambers, o yun kayang literal na puso na ginagawa nating bopis? Of course not. The heart here is the symbol of one’s personality and personhood. It is beyond cure.  Even what we call love can be very selfish. “I miss you, so come here, because when you’re here, I’m happy.” Para ma-satisfy yung gusto natin, sasabihin natin , “I love you.” It is so easy to use people that we love for our own selfish ends. Even the very noble institution of love could be so easily corrupted pag hindi natin binantayan. If we follow our heart all the time, alam nyo kung saan tayo pupunta? Kapahamakan. Gaano karaming tao ang sa pagsunod sa puso at damdamin ay napahamak? Kaya isa yan sa mga bagay na dapat kino-control. Hindi yan laging pinagbibigyan.

Sa lipunan, mahalaga ang suppression rather than the expression of man’s primal nature.  Kapag kaya nating timpiin ang ating galit, sibilisado tayo.  Yung kahit na gustung-gusto natin yung dumadaan, pasulyap-sulyap lang tayo at hindi natin tinititigan.  Kapag kaya nating supilin yung likas at natural, naipapakita natin ang pagiging sibilisado. 

Hindi laging sinusunod ang puso.  Hindi lahat ng nadarama ay pinagbibigyan.  At lalo namang hindi laging pinaiiral kung ano ang ibig ng puso. 

Ed Lapiz

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Daily Devotions

365 Daily Supplements For The Heart
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Psalm 23:6

Your kindness and love will always be with me each day of my life, and I will live forever in your house, LORD.

Nakakatiyak tayo na dahil kilala natin ang ating shepherd, makakapiling natin ang Dios Ama magpakailanman. We may not always be good, but God’s goodness will always be with us because he’s our shepherd. We may not always be loving but God will keep on loving us. So we feel secure. But we are not only recipients of God’s love and goodness, we ought to be dispensers and channels of goodness and love to others.

Bakit nga ba tayo hindi magiging loving and good kung secure naman tayo sa Panginoon? Bakit tayo magiging madamot kung alam nating magbibigay ang Panginoon sa atin? At kung nagbigay tayo sa tamang paraan at sa mas higit na nangangailangan, alam nating papalitan ito ng Panginoon. So goodness and love will follow us everywhere we go because we know who we are.

Kaya lang naman tayo minsan nagiging mabangis kasi natatakot tayong maubusan. Pero kung mawala na yung takot na iyon, mapagbigay na dapat tayo. Wala nang dahilan yung nananalig sa Panginoon at nakakatiyak ng buhay na walang hanggan at nakakatanggap ng mga blessing sa buhay na ito, para maging maramot o masungit. Walang dahilan para hindi maging katulad ng ating shepherd. Walang mas mataas na pagtanaw ng utang na loob sa ating shepherd kundi sa maging munting shepherd din sa iba. Ang pinakamabisang pagpapasalamat sa Panginoon ay yung ibahagi rin natin sa iba yung tinatanggap natin sa kanya.

Ed Lapiz

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Daily Devotions

365 Daily Supplements For The Heart
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Ecclesiastes 7:2
It’s better to go to a funeral than to attend a feast; funerals remind us that we all must die.

Sabi ni Solomon, kung pipili kayo sa party dito at lamay doon, doon kayo sa lamay. Ano’ng ibig sabihin nun? Pag nagpupunta ka sa patay, naaalala mong mamamatay ka rin. Iyun ang dapat na napala mo. At pag naalala mong mamamatay ka rin, naaalala mo kung paano ka dapat mabuhay. Pinapahiram ka pa ng konting sandali para samantalahin at lasapin natin ang buhay habang hindi pa nagpapantay ang ating mga paa. Naalala nating pag-isipan ang kahulugan ng buhay, suriin ang sariling buhay at maghanda sa hindi naman maiiwasang appointment na yan.

Ang buhay ay umaabot ng pitumpung taon. Kung sobra kang malakas, baka umabot ka pa ng 80. Pag naka-90 ka pa, sobra-sobra na. Yun ngang iba, 10 years old pa lang namamatay na. Tingnan nyo ang balut, hindi na nagkaroon ng pagkakataong mabuhay, di ba? Hindi pa nga isinisilang e sumakabilang buhay na. Kanya-kanyang panahon. Pag nagkaroon tayo ng dagdag na oras, ipagpasalamat natin, “Salamat, buhay pa ako.” Hindi dapat puro reklamo.

Mayroon naman talagang tinatawag na, e ayaw pa. Siguro mayroon pang mga karanasang hindi pa natikman o mga kabutihang hindi pa nagawa. Kaya nga dapat na nabubuhay tayo araw-araw. Paborito nating sinasabi yung, “Mabuhay!” Kaya dapat na binubuhay natin ang sarili. Pag nalulungkot, humanap ng saya. Umimbento ng kaligayahan kaysa magmukmok. Lasapin ang sarap ng buhay at magmartsa nang mainam kung ga-graduate na.

Ed Lapiz

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Daily Devotions

365 Daily Supplements For The Heart
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Proverbs 3:11-12

My child, don’t turn away or become bitter when the LORD corrects you. The LORD corrects everyone he loves, just as parents correct their favorite child.

To have a good, godly life, we must not resent or reject godly correction. Kahit na minsan, inaadhika nating maging laging tama, pero kung sakali mang nasilat at nakagawa ng mga pagkakamali, huwag nating tanggihan, kainisan o layuan yung nagtutuwid at yung pagtutuwid sa atin. Never reject godly restriction or justice. Huwag sasama ang loob kung itinutuwid, kung nawawalan ng premyo at napaparusahan pa. Kung ang mga pagkakamali ay naprepremyuhan, mawiwili tayo sa paggawa ng mali at mapapalayo tayo sa paggawa ng tama. Discipline dictates that good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior is punished.

Kung minsan alam na alam na natin that if we get into a wrong relationship, halimbawa, hindi nagki-click yan. Pero nag-iinsist pa rin tayo. Kapag hindi nag-flourish, hirap na hirap tayo, sumasama ang loob natin, nasasaktan tayo, at nagtatampo tayo sa Dios. Dapat nga ipagpasalamat pa natin that we are being corrected. We do not know what horrible situations could befall us if we insisted on taking the wrong turn.

Huwag tayong nagtatampo sa Dios. Kadalasan kapag mayroon tayong mga bagay na hinihiling at hindi natatanggap mula sa Dios, nagtatampo tayo. Isipin na lang natin na itinutuwid siguro tayo ng Dios. Puede ba tayong lumaban sa Dios? Magtatagumpay ba tayo kung magtatampo sa Dios? Dapat nating tanggapin nang maluwag sa dibdib kung tayo ay itinutuwid.

Ed Lapiz

Day By Day Christian Ministries

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WONDERFULLY MADE

Daily Devotions

365 Daily Supplements For The Heart
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Psalm 139:13-14

You are the one who put me together inside my mother’s womb and I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me. Everything you do is marvelous! Of this I have no doubt.

Yung namimintas sa sarili at sa kapwa, hindi nya dinidibdib ang kahulugan na ang bawat tao ay buong kahiwagaan, kapangyarihan at kaluwalhatiang nilikha. Bakit? Diyos kasi ang gumawa, and the works of God are wonderful. Marahil sobrang tinititigan lang natin yung kakulangan ng kapwa, hindi natin nakikita yung mga bagay na tamang-tama siya. Hinahanap natin sa kanya yung wala sa kanya, pinagagawa natin yung hindi naman siya gifted to do. Nagmumukha tuloy siyang walang kwenta.

Pero sabi, “the wonderful way you created me.” It means, I’m fit. Bagay ako sa lahat ng aking kasama, kasambahay, katrabaho at kapitbahay. Minsan, dahil sa ating maling pananaw sa sarili at sa kapwa hindi natin naa-appreciate ang pagkakaiba-iba. Samantalang ang pagkakaiba-iba na yan can be very charming because our differences give variety in life.

God is a God of variety kaya maraming puedeng gawin ang isang tao. Mayroon siyang number one na galing, at pwera d’yan may number two, may number three, at ayon sa hinihingi ng pagkakataon may ilalabas pa siyang ibang galing. Kahit di nya laging gustong palutangin ang galing nya, marami siyang talents, roles, callings to enable others to fit. Binibigyan din nya tayo ng kakayahang magpasensya, umunawa, umibig para yung ibang bahagi ng pagkatao ng kapwa natin ay ating mapagpasensyahan, mapatawad, matanggap.

Ed Lapiz

Day By Day Christian Ministries

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Daily Devotions

365 Daily Supplements For The Heart
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Proverbs 3:5-6

With all your heart you must trust the LORD and not your own judgment. Always let him lead you, and he will clear the road for you to follow.

Pag sinuri nyo ang ating mga problema, paulit-ulit, pabalik-balik, iyon at iyon din. Yung problema mo sa nanay mo, sa tatay mo, sa anak mo, sa asawa mo, sa sarili mo, iyon at iyon. Problema sa kapitbahay, problema sa kalusugan, parang wala namang bago, bakit kaya pabalik-balik? Halimbawa, bakit yung mga taong nababastos, naaapi, nasasaktan lagi na lang sila ang nagaganon? O kaya napapansin mong lagi ka na lang nilalampas-lampasan, hindi pinapansin, at kahit sino na lang ginaganun ka. Lagi ka na lang nabibiktima. Bakit yung laging nananakawan, naho-hold up, siya at siya pa rin ang paulit-ulit na nadudukutan, naaagawan, nawawalan? Lagi ka na lamang inaabuso ng tao, hinihiraman, inuutangan, hindi binabayaran, pabalik-balik, paulit-ulit. Yung mga na-1-2-3 noon, sila pa rin yung mawa-1-2-3 ngayon at bukas sila pa uli ang madadaya na naman. Yung mga nadadaya ng mga manggagantsong nanliligaw, nakakapitong nobyo na, iyon at iyon pa rin. At kung may madadaya na namang isang dalaga bukas, siya na naman ang kandidatang madaya.

If you do not like what’s happening in your life, change the way you think. Because the way you think attracts the things that happen in your life. Kung hindi ka masaya sa problemang pabalik-balik, palitan mo ang pag-iisip, palitan mo ang attitude at kasama nun palitan mo ang facial expression, body language and body movement.

At kung laging ikaw na lang lagi ang namamahala ng buhay mo, oras na para isali mo ang Dios sa usapan.

Ed Lapiz

Day By Day Christian Ministries

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