A wise man and a guardian had both been entrusted with the daily operation of a temple. One day the guardian died and needed to be replaced. So the wise man called a meeting of all his best disciples with the aim of choosing the guardian’s replacement.
“I will present you with a problem,” the wise man said, “and the first to solve it will be the new temple guardian.”
After his quick introduction, he placed a small table in the center of the room with an valuable porcelain vase containing an exquisite arrangement of roses.
“This is the problem,” said the wise man.
The disciples were confused at what they saw: beautiful paintings on the rare porcelain and an elegant flower arrangement. What did it mean? What was the enigma? What to do then?
After several minutes one of the disciples got up, looked at the wiseman and the disciples circled around him. He then boldly walked over to the vase and threw it on the ground, shattering the valuable work of art.
“You are the new guardian!” the wise man said to the student.
When he had returned to his place, he explained: “I was very clear. I had told you that I was going to set a problem before you, and that’s exactly what I did.
You were looking for an obviously negative thing, but it doesn’t matter how beautiful or fascinating a problem is, it has to be eliminated.
A problem is a problem, period. It can be a rare porcelain vase, a love that is no longer healthy, a path that needs to be abandoned… There is only one way to proceed with a problem, attack it head-on and refuse to be mislead with its external beauty.
The same happens to each one of us. The only way to see results is to confront our challenges with all our strength.
God bless you.
*Extracted from Bishop Macedo's blog
what i understand from this message is this,and oppertunity was given to the one who was obedience and take action,and i was thinking sometime we fight to overcome hell, cause we hear that satan is a ulgy man,and sometime we fight with all our mite to overcome him,But the one we should overcome is ourself,by brake ourself,and obey,the Instruction, that God give to us,so Servant and Children of God,let us take this oppertunity,by brakeing ourself before God and Obey on til death for the sake of our Salvation.dujay sterling,
ReplyDeleteThis is so true there is no other way.
ReplyDeleteIt is strange to think that a problem can actually look beautiful on the outside, but the bottom line is a problem is a problem and it has to be eliminated. I agree so much with the message. Quite insightful.
ReplyDeleteTo think that a problem cannot disguise itself as being beautiful is crazy... look at that, they were all deceived by the "beauty" only one man took on that challenge and destroyed that supposedly beauty. my, my this is very strong.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Odeekia and what I have really taken for myself from this message was that a problem is anything between you and your goal.It doesn't really matter how the problem looks or may appear before us,just do what it takes to get rid of the problem.
ReplyDeleteHi what I have really taken for myself from this message was that a problem is anything that stands between you and your goal.it doesn't matter how the problem looks or appear before us.just do whatever it takes to get rid of it.
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