THE EVILS REJECT
A product displayed on shelf in stores has used by or best before date and it also has an expiry date. If the item is not used by the date of use sometimes it is still manageable but if it passes its expiry date it will more then likely become bad and rotten. Do we have a best before or used by dates? When do we actually expire?
Some homeless people have once live a successful life and the majority of those living in cardboard city, parks and on the street today have once being cared and loved. Are they reached their best before date or is it a label tagged by the society?
Are they an outcast within the community that we dare not entertain in our thoughts just the same way we are not suppose to have immoral views or thoughts when exercising our religious activities. Have you find your mind wandering to sexual or lustful ideas during prayers. Perhaps you start to have these corruptible ideas in the middle of meditation. A devout religion person quipped "it is impossible to have filth mind if you are wholly committed to your faith". Perhaps what it meant is that you cannot be in your place of worship in the middle of prayer and allow your mind to become detached with your spiritual being otherwise you are heading for your use by date?
Those who find themselves in this kind of situations will probably be acting on face value and keep their thoughts to themselves. If they attend their place of worship they will likely find it difficult to relate to the devout. Each time their mind wanders they will feel like sinners living a hypocrite life. Some may eventually distance from their practice and beliefs on the basis that they are not fit for purpose.
Tuning in during worship comes natural if you don’t have wandering mind. There are those who can readily volunteer to participate in ministering. During prayers they are in the fore front, words flowing freely from them without flaws pausing at the right time and able to cite verses with perfect vocab. They are confident to be associated with their religion and go as far as describing themselves according to their religious denomination whilst others have varying degree of modesty and humbly acknowledge their vulnerability as participant of the same religion. Those with wandering minds find it difficult to keep pace with this kind of practice. Some may be clever in disguising this problem but tend to slip up within their close circles. A pattern may start to develop where the ‘know not’ start distancing from the ‘know how’.
It is as if there are some that are blessed to continue engaging in their religious practice whilst the immoral wanderers have poor spiritual concentration that edges them towards their used by date eventually expiring from their practice altogether.
Ordinary life events have often lead to extraordinary life circumstances. There are individuals who have struggled for most part of their life ending up leading nations, people who have had modest moral values becoming spiritual gifted prophets. Is this such for the wandering souls? If life can be ceaseless measured as a never-ending cycle what makes for our best before dates not being part of the core fabric in which the society strives?
A wandering thought is not a singular view; it is a combination of good and bad mind with inexplicable natural luxury of evil deed superseding good intent. Such mind seeks good value but has little or no defense mechanism against the attack of negative thoughts.
Immoral ideas during worship is not a divine catastrophe, it is consequences of evil envy in an attempt to derail spiritual fulfillment. On the other hand religion enthusiasm is not a crime, it is a caution for religious believers to be aware complacent spiritual achievement.
Evil reject is not based on use by date, it has no spiritual expiry but a result of ongoing spiritual growth that is meant to wear down varying negative thoughts that can eventually make have not become important link to our religious values.
Embracing mindlessness encourages individual to grow and develop their spiritual strength during trying times, the same value that builds hopefulness for homelessness rather than a use by date.
Koka 2012