Change of heart

It used to be that we could predict our unpredictable weather.  Where snow caps and icebergs were only found in the poles, and in countries with four seasons  and that the Philippines was only a tropical country.  But the changes in weather patterns and climate have shown us how  indeed we can no longer rely on the tracks of science alone. Instead, we should find ourselves shedding off the scales of pride, intellectual supremacy and ignorance to the truths that science in its purest form cannot explain let alone, foretell.

Reading the Bible will show us a roadmap long before written to help us and prepare us for the eventualities that  logic or physics cannot control. 

As I read through the book of Exodus and the books of Moses,  I saw a generation, so much like ours today.  Impervious, complaining and self-destructive.   The Hebrews could have gone to the promised land as soon as they left Egypt,  but they kept on looking back and comparing their felt miseries in their travels with a perceived better life as a slave.  And the lack of learning from the many directions and answers God gave to the people  caused them to just revolve around the wilderness for 40 or so years, circling the same area and not moving on, because they did not understand the extent of the privileges God gave them then.  So they were not able to move on, for a long time.

This experience is akin to our recent politics.  Or should I say, the political play in our country.  As each new official gets elected, he wants to make his own mark, and wastes his term renaming old projects and claiming them as his instead of building on the good work of a predecessor albeit the disparity in party.  There are only a few who have the right wisdom to discern that moving ahead, and taking on the country to the road to the promised land of progress, involves the very same principles in the time of Moses, and that is humility, the acceptance of grace and faith.

Now as our country struggles to prepare for the lash of the realities of the climate change, our political scene has not seemed to change.  There is still suspicion, argument, and a creeping dissent that may pull the country backwards again, with a far stronger tidal surge of political unrest.

When I read the papers or watch the news reports on TV, I want to yell at all the characters to say " hey, the things you are arguing about have actually no place  in your final destination."  Some of the statements are fuelled by pride, so instead of focusing attention on how to deal with the low pressure area and the impending storm, that continues to threaten our country,  mud-slinging continues in the sala of the Senate.  The real mud-ploughing should be in the areas affected by landslides, and floods. SIGH.

2014 is said to take us through leaps and bounds with the year of the horse gearing-up to make economic gallops.  The business milieu is sparked by that drive to rebuild and show determined  strength to meet the challenges brought about by the many calamities that slapped our nation.  Business is going to be good if we put our act together and be like in prayer.  Efforts must be geared towards the constructive this time, and only to the constructive for there are a lot yet to come, new things, that will need us prepared.  Let's have a change of heart  from the Hebrews disobedient hearts to determined God-centered hearts,  and move on.