When I was doing what I thought was right I felt very comfortable. I was like a pig sitting in its own excrement. That waste felt just right, my father held a similar view it was a tradition of men of his family line. That is to distance yourself emotionally from your children, especially your male children. He would come home and go to his room to watch TV. He would eat there, sleep there, and exist there.
This must have made him comfortable. Sometimes sin can feel comfortable because we are sinful due to Adam. I was doing the same. Using my rationale to live my life according to MY will. I was dreaming my own dream. It was an ugly one. My children stayed away from me, and my wife was constantly being ignored. I was irritating my children and mistreating my wife. These are things that Jehovah hates among other things.
So what is the real life? Here on Earth, people think that world governments have the answer. They claim to have a plan for this or that. Yet in the USA people to moving in with each other to pool money for rent. More Americans are living in tent cities. Millions more are just a few paychecks away from going into foreclosure.
Here in South Korea, it is very bad as well. Real life is about making enough money to afford your own apartments. Then enough money to afford one or two "nice" cars. By this I mean high-end new Korean cars that are a few years old, So most people in South Korea feel like failures.
They have normal cars, but one is usually a bit old, They do not own their apartments. Many gave up and sold the units that their families helped them get when they were first married. This puzzles me they chased the dream of living in a "new better" box in the sky and ended up a slave to the banks.
Yesterday we had family worship. We all discussed this and found that we are living the real life now. Putting Jehovah's kingdom first, and trying to live in harmony with what we learned. We are not in debt, we are chasing the wind as in the endless upgrades for computers, smartphones, apartments, or recent trends. We find cheap ways to enjoy our time together. I replaced my GPU with an 87000 won replacement. My old GPU went into Yogitas PC (better cooling), and we cleaned her GPU and put that in Jeyo's PC. Now I will upgrade Yogita's GPU very soon and then pass that powerful but capable unit on to George. I am looking to get my severance pay in February to prepare for expenses this year.
I will update about that further if that happens or not.
But the real life isn't what people think it is. It is recorded in the bible for all of us to read and to learn to practice. This leads to feelings of contentment, not getting attached to things, and staying spiritually awake. When the Prince of Peace comes again, THEN OUR REAL LIVES WILL BE STARTING!
/tata
