Showing posts with label Quality of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quality of life. Show all posts

Friday, December 26, 2025

Life Is Not Unfair—It Is Honest

Most people hate the realities life hands them. What is even more interesting is that many chronically complain about the unfairness of life while completely ignoring the fact that they are often the primary
contributors to the very outcomes they consider unfair.

So, what is this reality of life?

To understand the reality of life, we must first unlearn what it is not. Throughout history, people have repeated the familiar phrase, "Life is unfair." While this statement may offer temporary comfort, it often becomes a convenient way to shift accountability and responsibility away from ourselves. It allows us to blame circumstances rather than examine the choices, habits, relationships, and mindsets that continue to produce the same undesirable results.

The truth is that life is not primarily about fairness or unfairness. It is about cause and effect. Life continually reflects back to us the consequences of what we consistently think, tolerate, practice, defend, and repeat. Unfortunately, many refuse to accept this reality. Instead, they continue surrounding themselves with the same people, following the same unproductive advice, making the same decisions, and maintaining the same destructive habits—only to wonder why the results never change.

Life is remarkably honest. It simply returns what we continually invest into it.

What you tolerate today becomes your normal tomorrow. What you repeatedly practice eventually becomes your reality. What you continually defend will often become your destiny. If you desire different results, you must first change the ingredients that are producing your current ones. Results do not change by wishing for them; they change when the factors that create them are changed.

As 2026 approaches, ask yourself an honest question:

Will you continue carrying the same attitudes, the same unhealthy relationships, the same reluctance to change, the same unforgiveness, the same disappointments, and the same destructive patterns that produced the frustrations of 2025?

If so, why should you expect a different outcome?

Perhaps what you have called unfairness is actually truth confronting you. Truth is showing you that the changes you long to see in your circumstances must first begin within you. Lasting transformation has always been born from accountability, personal responsibility, and the courage to change.

Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Whether or not those were his exact words, the principle remains profoundly true.

Life is not inherently unfair.

Life is honest.

It faithfully reflects the seeds we sow, the decisions we make, the company we keep, and the standards we accept. When we change those things, life begins to produce different outcomes.

The question is not whether life has been unfair to you.

The real question is:

What are you willing to change so that your future no longer resembles your past?

Pastor Kevin L. A. Ewing
ewinglakevin@icloud.com
kevinlaewing.blogspot.com
www.kevinlaewing.com

 

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Accepting Jesus Christ will "NOT"Give You a Better Quality Of Life

Becoming a Christian will not give you a better quality of life. Instead, it will always be the application of the Word of God as a believer of Jesus Christ that will ultimately improve and advance your quality of life.
Many folks who accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior will quickly discover that what was promised to them by their religious leaders did not pan out exactly the way their leaders made it out to be.
In fact, as it relates to the quality of their lives, things have apparently gotten worse, despite Jesus being Lord of their lives.
The reason for this is simple, and that is, they were taught wrong. And as a result, disappointment, confusion, and giving up on Jesus became the order of the day.
Making Christ your Lord and Savior reconciles your relationship with God and secures you a seat in Heaven when you die. Unfortunately, this act alone will do absolutely nothing for you regarding your quality of life while on Earth.
More than likely, if you depend on this act alone to produce favor, healing, defeating of your enemies and the like, then you are in for a massive disappointment, confusion, and just plain giving up on Jesus Christ altogether.
Your quality of life, my friend, regarding being debt-free, being healed, having a successful marriage, and whatever else constitutes a better quality of life, will hinge on the application of His Word.
I use to rehearse the religious jargon that they told me, such as, "Call on Jesus and everything will be all right."; "What God has for me is for me"; "No weapon formed against me shall prosper"; "God will give me double for my troubles," and of course, the list goes on.
The problem with the above statements was no one bothered to inform me that I would have to apply the Word of God for the above phrases to manifest in my life.
For example, I was told that I was the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. I'm blessed going out and coming in. However, my quality of life was not reflecting these statements even though I am a believer and follower of Jesus Christ.
Amazingly, as I began to study the Word for myself to ascertain what was wrong. I discovered that to be the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath, blessed going out and coming in, I had to obey and live by the principles, laws, protocols, and commandments to qualify for this better quality of life.
"And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the Earth: And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail, and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearkens unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them." (Deut. 28:1-2,13.)
The emphasis is on the word "of God. If you study this chapter carefully, Moses wasn't talking to sinners or those alienated from God. In fact, he spoke to the children of Israel who already had God as their Lord and leader. However, it was made clear that their quality of life will not change because he is their God. Instead, the quality of their lives will be a direct reflection of their obedience and application of his Word.
My words of wisdom are simply this: stop allowing these charlatans to replace the Word of God with money, miracle cloths, oils, and the like. The above teaching has made it abundantly clear that with obedience and application of God's Word, the quality of your life will improve and advance.
Sorry, no $1,000 seed offering will work here.

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing
kevinewing@coralwave.com
kevinlaewing.blogspot.com

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