TOPIC: TEST SUMMARY OF MYTH
Faith is simply defined as believing in something even without any physical evidence or proof. Our faith in God allows us to encounter ridicule or persecution from people who have different perspectives in life, making it a difficult challenge for us to continue what we have already instilled in our thoughts and emotions. A concrete example is opening our hands for those whose need our help without expecting something in return.
No matter how big or small, the things that we have done to our fellowmen is already a great achievement in the eyes of God. We should remember the biblical passage that whatever we do to the least of our brothers and sisters, we have done it for Him. It is actually following the footsteps of the Lord by manifesting compassion and unconditional love.
Despite this situation, we should remember that men can never equal God. We must remain humble because His ways are beyond compare. We must not cease to praise and worship Him for all the good things that He has done for us. God’s goodness is timeless, boundless and is beyond our human understanding.
One way of putting it into a doctrine is how God made it possible to create the world in seven days. The creation of the world per se was not literally witnessed by men or any other living entity. It tickles now the curious mind when did God actually made everything in His own image and likeness. There is no specific time or era when this very special event took place.
If it were known to ordinary and exceptional men, it would have been specifically written or recorded with either a calendar month or a year. The time elementthat we have learned is purely an estimate. It is only God who knows exactly when He made these gifts for us. It’s purely in His divine knowledge and wisdom why everything now is in front of us.
In The Sacred Writings of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak emphasized that words of praises are not enough to thank God of the things that He has done for us. In a very pure and subtle way of expressing the lines of the hymn, he wants us to understand that man is pleading God to reveal His exceptional ways of doing things. To be able to connect men and God together, he created in us the idea of exultation.
This is the highest form of praising and worshipping God. Although the names mentioned are that of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak is telling us that it’s God who did everything possible. He utilized figures of speech to clearly send the message across for both ordinary readers and devoted believers. The act of asking God questions in the fourth stanza is apostrophe, meaning, there is no required answer or reply. It’s a form of praise and worship that exalts the power of our Creator and Redeemer.
Likewise, in the same manner, metaphor was used once in the first stanza by comparing faith to that of the mustard seed. It was already explained earlier how and why our faith is tested before the eyes of God. In order to highlight the true value of faith, he also compared the power of God to that of kings and ordinary men. The term “worm” is figuratively referring to those who have less in life but more on faith. Meaning, riches will never allow you to inherit the kingdom of God; but instead, it’s your faith that will make it possible.
The main purpose of writing this hymn is for us to trust God unconditionally because He will definitely do everything for us. With that, He deserves our highest form of praise and worship by exultation. For us to be deserving before the eyes of God, we must not hunger for greed or power because it will definitely separate us from Him. It will also ignite trouble and chaos by going against each other. Guru Nanak and the Sikhs would like us to understand that if God is with us, we have already everything and no one will ever go against us again.
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