Siliness!

Praises from man is sweet to the ear, poison for the soul!

"A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin" (Prov 26:28)

Why am i writing this? How do i know that a flattering mouth works ruin?

Allow me to share my own silly belief during these past months. This is very2 silly, and you will find me stupid and idiotic for thinking this way - but i'm going to share this anyway - because if i know that there's a pit somewhere, i would rather share the knowledge with everyone, than to keep it to myself, and to find others falling into it! (my blood will be the price of their injury!)

Anyway, lately, many ppl had been telling me that i lost weight. This is right, and when i checked the scales - i did lost weight - so i was quite proud about it.

Whenever someone said that to me - something inside me swells up - and i began to think of the food that i can eat.

You know where i am going with this right?

YES! that's right - after listening to that - i began to let my guard down. I no longer care about how much food i ate (p.s. i lost weight not because i was dieting or anything - but because i learnt self control). Well, a concrete example of this uncontrolle behaviour is last Saturday - where in one day i ate = b'fast - banana bread, 2 macaroons, 1 dorayaki (between 1 hour interval) lunch - eel rice, dinner - kingsford chinese (loads of them cos we were sharing per table).

Well.. anyway, when i checked the scales again - i went up 2 kg.

The point of my story is NOT how many kg/s that i lost or gained - but the self-control that i've gained and lost because of a few praises from others. When i got that praise - i began praising myself - rather than remembering God who gave me self-control to not eat - if i'm not hungry -especially NOT to eat so many junks in one day. I began to loose my self control that actually taught me that i should care about my health and the body that God has given me.

The few praises that I've got actually took my eyes away from the original goal that I were trying to achieve. The greater goal!! hehehe

Eniway, hope this post makes sense.. and could be a blessing to you