METICULOUS

Meticulous in the dictionary means Extremely careful and precise, Extremely or Excessively concerned with details. Extremely on the other hand means to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect.

In my life, I have met different kinds of people that are so meticulous in every area of their lives. Some are meticulous in their health, hygiene, foods, in how they arrange things in their house and in their works (of course they must be to earn a living). Some even swipe their hands unto a table to check if it is really clean. Anyway, you may ask as you read along if where I am leading to.

Actually, what cause me to write this blog is that firstly let me tell you an actual experience. I am a Legal Precoder in a certain company here in Cebu. Last week, as I was precoding some statutes and regulations in one of the state of Canada I did not notice that I committed some mistake or error. My TA (Team Assistant) called my attention to the error I made. While he was showing to me the error I made, a thought entered my mind of how meticulous some things are. That even a short error could affect certain things. So, from there my mind run through if what is the WWJT in the situation. WWJT means What Would Jesus Think? I got this term from the book Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer. I said to myself What would Jesus Think in the situation. Then an understanding came to me that though it is not wrong to be meticulous in our external being, we must give priority to the application of the word meticulous in our inner being.

You may ask, hey salud what do you mean by internal being? Internal being for me concerns our spiritual being. Are we living our life in the will of God or out of His will. I observed that we are so meticulous in our externals that we forgot to be meticulous of our internal. We take a bath once a day and some even three times a day but have we put ourselves in the stillness of the presence of God and let Him convict and cleanse us of how we should brought ourselves in the way God wants us to act, say and live. I think it is now the right time to quiet our spirit and be still and open our heart to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives because only through Him that we can receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will be the one to convict and guide us to live a life according to God's will.

As it is written that "Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' No, the word is very near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it" (Deuteronomy 30:11-14).

Take note! The verse written above was still in the Old Testament. How much more today, that Jesus already died for us. He who is God did not use his being God but WALK as a man just like us to be CRUCIFIED to save us from our sins.

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross!" (Philippians 2:5-8).

If only we can just open our hearts to Him and surrender our lives.