Malaysian Church Attack: How To Manage Provocation From Extremist Element?
Written By Futurist
Nation in a Big Shock
The nation was in a big shocked when three churches in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur allegedly targeted by unidentified arsonists earlier today. Leaders from both sides of political divide have strongly condemned the attack and calling for people to calm down in order to maintain peace and harmony in this multi-racial country.
How To Manage Provocation?
Have you ever experienced before that you feel provoked by a person, a group, or by sad incident that really test your patience level? Realize it or not, your thoughts after being provoked can determined your whole day/week/month/year either it starts with good note or otherwise. It even can determine the whole day’s/week’s/month’s/year’s mood. For me, I always want to start my day with good note; especially now we are just embarked into new year 2010. I don’t know about you. Take note that, at times, your mind produces negative forms of thinking which need to be arrested immediately and now before it can destroy your reasoning system of thought.
You cannot allow these thoughts to roam free after being provoked because they can take control of you. The thoughts should be analyzed properly, locked up in your “tiny reasoning compartment of the brain” and you must back to control your posture and system. The menace must be constrained. Do not allow our mind wander down destructive paths and forces. I remember what Jedi Yoda in the Star Wars space opera said “may the force be with you” and I trust it must be good forces going towards victory paths of peace and harmony.
Contrary to popular belief, actually, your mind after provoked doesn’t control you, you should control it. Therefore you need to be in total control of your thoughts. Failure to do this takes you to second level of territory where these thoughts become high level thoughts which are fragile; which could leads you toward raging anger. And that’s very dangerous to you if you give in. They now preoccupy you and dominate your thinking patterns.
Provocation Leads To Unending Arguments?
If you still give in and do not take authority over such destructive forces, it becomes an argument, which comes from Greek word “logismos” meaning logical thinking or philosophical reasoning to control the direction of your response. In other words, it starts making sense and form a meaning to you. So you have the power to choose either you react or not to the provocation. Actually this sounds simple right (easier said than done)? Rest assured that if you have this “logismos” power, then you not easily provoked. When reason and destructive thinking patterns make more sense to you, then the anger started and formed in your heart. Now your thoughts in trouble, and so are you if you are not pay extra attention to that bad forces!
Let’s pray in a concerted effort for a continuous peace and harmony Malaysia irrespective of whatever religion you may embraced. She deserves our every loving care!
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We must not fight fire with fire.
Christians are taught to always tolerate and not fight force with force.
If you’re slapped on your cheek, you’re to give the other side so to speak.
But most of us are not ‘practising’ Christianity as taught by our Holy Bible.
And by reading it without the help of the Holy Spirit
will only add to more confusion.
And how do you understand the Holy Bible if you’re not born again from above?
But still what is happening today is already mentioned in our “Book of Life” that is the Holy
Bible!
Need we say more?
What is most confusing is how our authorities are handling the delicate matter at hand.
Why did they allow the demonstrations to continue and in places of worship, where its considered a sacred place?
No wrong can make a right but its downright puzzling.
But that’s MY Malaysia for you.
1Malaysia, that is!