The Vegan Lifestyle

It is always better to forgive those who sinned against us. Not only because God enjoins us, but because it can bring sickness to us when we do not forgive.

We are all sinners. No one is righteous in the sight of God;  no, not one. When we point our index finger to accuse our neighbors, more fingers point to us. When we condemn our neighbors, we literally condemn ourselves.

As stated above, all are sinners, and have not done what the law of God requires. As such, we do same thing as what the criminals do. So, when we condemn our fellowmen, we condemn ourselves because we do the same thing and are guilty of it.

You may think that you are less sinful than your neighbors. But there is no such thing as small sin and big sin. When you obey the nine commandment perfectly, and yet violate the least part of the tenth, you are still guilty of violating the whole ten commandments. The laws are not independent and separate from each other. They are like rope strands that are intricately entwined and  permeably connected and knotted together permanently that destroying the least one affects all of it.

So we cannot rightly condemn our neighbors, for we are also sinners like them. So let us understand them, and forgive them in their mischiefs, for like us, they do not also know what they are doing.

Most of us are like that. Most of the time, we do not know what we are doing. We commit mistakes most of the time, and hurt our neighbors, not only in our bad deeds, but also in our unkind words, and in our malicious thoughts. We were conceived in sin, and we inherited the sin nature of our parents. We are all wallowing in the quagmire of sin – precariously popping up and down in a quicksand beyond coming out. But thanks be to God – he gave his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ to save us from that inextricable dilemma.

We should be thankful that God saves us from the curse of sin, and let us show  this gratitude by forgiving our neighbors as God has forgiven us. We were all created in the very image of God. We are his masterpiece of creation, and we are all children of God. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ, and we should love each other as God loves us all.

It is always better to forgive our fellowmen. It brings peace, joy and happiness, and good health too. Animosity, anger, and other pent-up feelings are vented, and heavy burdens in the heart are lightened when we forgive those who sinned against us. When our conscience convicts us, we lose the invigorating and rejuvenating effects of sound sleep, and maladies and afflictions follow. When we forgive our fellowmen, our prayers are able to penetrate the  ceilings of our homes and goes directly  to the throne of God. When we forgive, God hears our prayers, and grant all the desires of our hearts. When we forgive our fellowmen, God will also forgive us our sins.

There is always hope no matter what the situation. Even in death, there is hope of after life.

People are suffering in miseries and afflictions. More people around the world are subsisting in hand-to-mouth existence. Millions are dying of famine, and still more from diseases that plagued our world today.

All of these can be attributable to our being ignorant of who God is and what he can do for us. The moment we learn of God, all our sufferings and miseries will vanish like a smoke, and we will have peace and joy in our lives.

Knowing God does not only brings peace and happiness in life, but eternal life as well. The seemingly insurmountable sufferings we have here on earth cannot go with us to heaven. And if you are willing to surrender your life to God, he will surely carry all your burdens and cares with him.

Knowing God brings the very best of health. It brings peace to a weary soul. It brings hope, and hope brings joy and happiness without bounds.

When in this life we have hope in God, our body is tremendously benefited health wise. All the organs of our body will be invigorated and strengthened by hope, and our immune system will become stronger and will function perfectly together with the other systems of our body.

Diseases cannot thrive in a body that has its hope in God. When we surrender our lives to God every morning, and allow him to work in us, our lives will turn for the better, and each moment of our lives will become happier and more livable.

Let us trust in the Lord with all our hearts,  and let us not lean on our own understanding. Let us not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself.  The world will always have plenty of sorrows and miseries, and if we worry about all these, our lives will become more miserable.

We have a loving Father in heaven who loves us more than our parents loved us. His loving mercy never ends – he will surely lighten our heavy burdens and carry us through in our times of sufferings.

The Lord enjoins us not to worry about tomorrow for it is useless worrying when worrying  itself cannot change it a bit. When we worry so much, our minds and bodies become stressed, and very soon we become sick.

Let us not lean on our own understanding, as the Lord commanded us. Our human understanding is limited, and we do not understand the beginning and the end of a thing. The world is in economic crises, and we expected being laid off  from our jobs; prices of commodities rising up, and the fees of public and private services rising with it too. When we rely on our own understanding and strength to solve all these problems in life,  we will have lots of hardships, and end up in hospital, or worst, commit suicide when overburdened by so many insurmountable problems in life.

There is always hope even from an incurable disease. When we come to realize that God created us in his own image, and he breathed his very own breath into our nostrils, we will rise above all diseases and conquer them for good. We can rise above all the sufferings and afflictions when we realize that there is a divine breath in us so pure, so invigorating, and so holy for diseases to even thrive in our body, and for problems to even conquer our hearts and minds.