Proverbs 13:12 - "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
The Bible teaches us the simple, yet powerful formula for Satisfaction and Unsatisfaction in life.
Everyone has what its called hope or longing. Hope or longing in a general term is Expectation.
According to the verse above, we can conclude that the formula for having a satisfied life in general is Expectation equals to Reality (E=R).
When "hope deferred", which means that, the reality of life does not equal to the hope (expectation) that we have, thus the Bible says that "it makes the heart sick". Heart is the source of life. When our heart sick, it means that we are in great distress.
However, when "a longing fulfilled", which means that, the reality of life equals to the expectation that we have, the Bible says that it "is a tree of life". A tree of life portrays comfort, certainty, growth, fruitful, and life, which all leads to great satisfaction.
By understanding this formula of a satisfied life from the Bible, we can learn some important things.
When we feel that we are unsatisfied with our lifes, we have 2 options. First, we change our reality by being proactive in repenting to God and ask for His help to be committed in making real changes in life, or we change our ultimate expectation about our life.
Many of us have expectations in life built based on our dreams, goals, values, beliefs that have been in our mind for sometime. In fact, the Bible teaches us that the ways we live and think have been inherited from our ancestors. That is why the second option is to renew our minds daily with the Word of God, so that eventually, with time and process, we start to adopt the new expectation that is not from this world, but from His perspectives - the Word of God.
Because if we think about it, it is as simple as what the Word of God teaches us: the Formula of a Satisfied Life is Expectations equal Reality (E=R).
-JH-
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