this reflection started out as a reflection on my health - with particular reference to my sleeping hours since i was and am still sleeping at weird hours and not usually clocking sufficient hours per day. but it strayed off to the point of natural reactions to our surroundings and the people around us; our nature.
i recalled that not too long ago i was once again reminded that from the first Adam who sinned, it is only in our very nature to sin too; rebel against the holy nature of God.
with conditioning/training from young with family, we might feel guilt when we lie, cheat, steal or basically sin.
but with reverse conditioning - when the rod ceases to fall and the nagging dwindles with age - it becomes evident that it is only natural for us to sin.
therefore i came to the conclusion that the immediate reaction to our negative circumstances, is always the easier way out.
the immediate reaction that results usually from anguish, anger or panick tends to be one that we regret. it's why we're taught from young to hold our tongue, and to be grow up - think before we act.
take for example - when a nagging parent chides a child about being unholy, being far away from God, and being a disgrace, it's natural that the child's ego is bruised, his emotions burn with hurt and to lash back in retort would be 2nd nature.
to respond with sniding remarks of how 'Godly' the parent is in judging, and hurting a child like this would certainly render a parent speechless either in hopelessness or in shock as an initial reaction.
but my point is this, it would be easy to lash back in the fashion, but it is hardly loving at all of the child to do so. sure parents have the upper hand, and it's a mandate given by the One who made the universe the way it is. i'm just not so sure we want to behave in our natural ways that one day all hell breaks loose simply because mankind acts solely upon the natural reaction to circumstances; that would make us no different from beasts of the wild.
