Thursday, December 11, 2008

Faith is the substance of hope (Part II)

The four areas that we talked about, self-discipline, vision, rectitude, and leave a legacy are essentially the body-mind-heart-spirit respectively.

Every human being has to have their needs fulfilled in at least one of these four areas. So,e when your bodily needs call to replenish food, it is how you exercise self-discipline to accept some food and reject others.

You get the point.

Having said that, very often these needs are also closely linked in such a way that we sometimes don't even notice it. For instance, when we are bombarded with ads about a certain brand, it creates a visual image that goes into our subconscious mind, where it evokes certain feelings in the heart, so that we will want (bodily) it.

In a corporate context, it could be that because the work you do (body) is purposeful (spirit) and hence it creates a good feeling (heart) that you want to apply your intellect (mind) wholly.

Therefore, these are the four areas where when they coalesce together form the substance of hope, and that is faith.

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