Mankind has achieved extraordinary growth in material things.
We build faster, move quicker, and have access to more than ever before.
But in the area of inner spirituality, we can be stunted.
You can have human confidence – skills, knowledge and presence. Yet, without spiritual confidence, growth stops.
Because at some point, life asks you to believe in things you cannot see. Thinking is where it begins.
Thinking helps you discover truth.
When you stop thinking, you drift. You become sceptical, uncertain, and easily influenced.
The reality is this:
We cannot fully trust ourselves.
But we also cannot live without trusting.
We cannot fully trust others.
But we cannot exist without relying on them.
So we are left in between.
Not certain. Not secure. Unless we build something deeper.
Consider that to be spiritual confidence.
Without it, we struggle to believe anything beyond what is visible.
And even what we can see is often confusing, incomplete, or misleading.
Spiritual confidence is built.
First through thinking.
Then through believing.
And strengthened through reading.
I’ve committed to reading 10 pages a day of a book. An actual book. I try to start my day reading, and I’m sure my days go better when I do.
Reading feeds the mind.
It develops stronger thoughts.
And over time, those thoughts become beliefs you can stand on.
Left unattended, your thinking will be shaped by noise, by authority, by media, by negativity, by the pressure to conform.
But when you choose to think for yourself, you begin to take that back.
This week’s Monday Motivator:
I will spend time thinking and discovering truth, and refuse to accept false truths forced upon me by others.
Prompt for the week:
What am I currently accepting as truth without questioning—and what happens if I challenge it?
