Needs and fulfilling them

Perhaps it's about time I blogged again. Can sort of tell how long I haven't blogged given that even my background somehow got deleted hahaha. Haven't really found much time since my last post due to army/studies but now it's the holidays I guess it's rather easy to dig out some time =)

Well over the past few months I've been having random thoughts here and there as to what to blog on and they've just been coming and going so I suppose I'll just blog about what I've been pondering about more in the past few days.

You know, it's natural human instinct to fulfill a need when it comes. Like for instance, if you feel thirsty, chances are you'll be looking for water to drink and when you feel cold, perhaps you'll grab a jacket or a blanket. Similarly, when you feel empty inside, you'll be looking for things to do like going out with friends, playing games, reading books - anything that can kill time and make you feel occupied. You have the need, you recognize the need, you fulfill the need.

The exact same thing goes on in our spiritual lives too. What I've noticed about myself is that my QT is sometimes really short, sometimes really long. And coincidentally, or maybe not so, the times where I seek God more is in periods like during exams, when I'm feeling lost/down, or in times of difficulty.

The trend seems to be that the time I spend with God is proportional to how much I need to, or how hard things seem to be getting for me to cope with alone. It may be really easy to shove God to one side once I see good results for my exams, when I'm having fun out with my friends, sleeping in peace and waking up to a whole new day with many things planned out perfectly. Then again, during the more challenging times, more evidently during the period just before exams, no matter how tired I am, I would always commit myself to God, seek His comfort, His wisdom, His love.

All this again points back to our needs which will always be around and how we fulfill them. Christians have it easy as they always have a solution through God. Which brings me to the point which I have been thinking of now and then.

So many people out there who don't believe in God, or maybe even some Christians who don't see the need to commit themselves to God... Ask a few pre-believers (as I prefer to call them) and you'll get a range of answers like...

~ Why do I need a God?
~ I'm self sufficient, I don't need this God to help me
~ Things are fine as they are, why change things
~ The storm will come and go. Nothing will make it any different

Of course, there may be many different answers but one major reason why some people don't believe may be because they don't recognize the need that they have. Either that, or they think that this need can be solved on their own, without the help of anybody else. Needs can only be met once they are recognized. As an analogy, who eats without feeling hungry (with the exception of indulgence of course =x)?

There are other addressable points of what I have just posted just like is it right to only seek God when we recognize the need to? But well, that'll be enough for a whole new post I suppose. Not too sure how to end this particular post cause as I said, it was just another of those random thoughts that go through my mind...

--- just another random thought >.< ---