How Religion Can Help You

Introduction

There are many different religions on earth. In fact, there are, according to wikipedia, 10,000 dinstincted religion in the world in the first quarter of the 21st century (up to today, basically). What I’m speaking about in this article is mainly monotheistic religions.

We can learn a lot from religions. From clear lessons taught by religious books to our own personal thoughts and interpretations from our own experiences in prayer, we can really learn a lot from religion in every walk of life.

One big thing that monotheistic religions teaches us is to be humble infront of our creator. Humility is very important, especially in a very materialistic world that is deeply focused on social acceptance and “being perceived” instead of simply “being”.

In this world of materialism, we can often get lost in our lifestyle and build a huge ego. This ego doesn’t necessarily mean we are out there, showing our money and spitting on other people, even tho it could be. This ego also means being so focused on oneself that you think everything is against you, whilst, in reality, it’s the natural rhythm of life.

Humility also helps us realize what is bigger than us, in this way, we can actually realign our life to our deepest purpose, understand which relationships are the most important, and ask ourselves deep questions.

When you believe in a higher power that created everything around you and that could swap you out of existence with a single flick of his fingers, you start understanding the futility of life. If we unzoom in time and space and look at the chronology of human being, sorry to say so, but you’re deeply unimportant. And, this unimportance shouldn’t motivate you to suck, it should motivate you to live life fully and give every single bit of love you have until your death, so as to make sure you had an impact on your time.

This humbleness that is created through religion can carry on into every part of your life and help you calm your ego when not necessary. You understand that you’re part of the world and that you should give your gifts fully to the world and to the people you love, but you don’t think that you’re always the big deal.

Because yes, even if you became “the big deal”, you still need to stay humble. Marcus Aurelius used ot have slave telling him “You’re just a man”. When success and fame comes, we often think we’re more than man, that we’rre invincible, and even tho it might feel great, it’s important to re-assess that we’re just a man.

Calming down our ego and being real with ourselves and being authenthic is important. We are just man, and I’m not speaking about the gender, but about the nature of our being: humans.

I made a whole article out of the futility of life called “See your life as an ant”, click here to check it out. It really dives deeper into this “asking yourself deep question, being humble and realizing the futility of life” aspect.

As I’ve said before, knowing the futility of life SHOULDN’T demotivate you to do anything. It shouldn’t scare you or demotivate you, if it does, fix back your mindset to the following I’m about to tell you.

You should understand that this futility of life means that your life is only one more ant in the succession of the ant kingdom. You might be a big, huge, enormous ant. Who knows, if you become the next Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, you might be a big, big ant. You might be the king of ants like Marcus Aurelius. Either way, you still stay an ant. You’re nothing else but an ant.

And, this means that you should live your life fully. Instead of wasting time on activities that doesnt’ matter all day long, focus on what ruly matters, realize the futility of your life and use this to motivate the giving of your deepest gifts, such as your unwavering attention and presence, following your purpose and helping the world, as well as g iving love fully to the people you hold dear.

Also, religion teaches us to forgive others. One big lesson in the bible is to forgive others, and to live life fully. Forgiving doesn’t mean necessarily loving another person, it simply means moving on from them. It isn’t about liking the other person again, it’s about stopping to worry about them.

It’s not about accepting that your wife cheated on you for example, and loving her or to acquiesce of what she did. It simply means moving on and letting go of that person. Sometimes forgiving can be in the more “used” sense of literally forgiving and loving a person and giving them love, but it can work both way anyway.

Religion also teaches us empathy. Being empathetic with ourselves, others, the world, etc. It teaches us to love others and to love ourselves. It means helping your friends and giving love and help fully to others. It means not closing down on yourself but opening up to others, no matter how hurt your heart can be.

Religion also teaches us to pursue wisdom and courage. This is one big lesson I learnt from the Bible, since I’m christian. There are a lot of chapters of the bible focused on wisdom, and it teaches a lot about becoming wiser, avoiding bad people, living and leading a good life, etc.

Now sure, passages like “whip your slave” aren’t really to be listened to. It’s not of actuality, since the bible began being writen back in the days of legal slavery. But, over-all, the bible gives a lot of messages to become wiser in life.

A lot of real, true arguments that could be tangible and used in real life. “Love your neighbhor like you love yourself” is hard when my neighbhor is a jackass who blasts 80’s songs at 3AM. However, when we tell me that I should pursue wisdom and love wisdom and chase learning and be just to others and always pursue justice as a virtue, that’s already more achievable.

Also, the Bible taught me to pursue courage and to try and be a strong man, even in the face of resistance or adversity. Following justice and what is right is a major lesson from the bible, taught in many chapters. If you look at the all the “good Juda kings”, most of them were very just.

In other words, the Bible taught me to trust god, to pursue wisdom, and to be a just and strong man who loves others and the world.

3 life lessons from the Bible

Lesson 1: "But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant." (Matthew 20:26)

This passage of the bible teaches us that to be a great leader and inspiring leader, we need to be first the servant of other people. In other words, to be a leader is to serve others and help them and love them.

This teaches the important value of literally giving value. Wether you’re an entrepreneur, a director at a sales company or a inspirational speaker, you need to give in order to receive, you need to be a servant before being a leader.

By giving to others what they want, they will naturally go and radiate toward you and listen to you. If I’m giving you value through these articles, I’m serving you with knowledge, but if you come back once more and follow more and more of my advice, then I’m a leader.

So, remember this important lesson of leadership: to be a leader, give value to others.

Lesson 2: "The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.” (Proverbs 11:3)

In everything you do, stay with full integrity. Have strong moral principles and values, such as empathy, compassion, love, justice, and a genuine desire to give your truest gifts.

This integrity of heart will guide you through life, and will help you make decisions and find your place in the world. You will know your direction in life, and your life will feel complete or interesting even if you don’t do anything in particular today.

The unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity, which means that they end up being destroyed by their lack of integrity and their fakeness. People who do bad always receive bad back on them. They end up losing themselves in their own fakeness, living a life of tension, negative thoughts, and sometimes even horrible acts.

Lesson 3: "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." — Colossians 3:23

The importance of hard work is also found in the bible’s verses. We should work diligently, with all of our hearts, as if we were working for god and not for human masters.

In other words, in everything we do that can be considered work, we should give our fullest gifts and work hard with all of our heart, giving everything we have to help others and serve the world.

In this way, we can pursue what really matters. Here are a few additional lessons.

Bonus Lessons: "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9)

This lesson teaches us to be courageous in the face of adversity and to not be afraid or discouraged. It’s important to remember that fear is only a mirage. Think of fear as a lake that looks profound, and when you actually put a foot in it, it’s not deep at all.

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." (Philippians 4:12)

Be grateful for what you have, because you already have plenty. Be content in every situation, be grateful for what you have, and be complete unto yourself by living life to your fullest and giving your fullest gifts to the world, be it love to your woman, work or service to the world, or to a particular cause, etc.

It’s important to sometimes want more, as it’s a major motivational force, but also learn to recognize what you are grateful for at the moment, and what you already have. Don’t stop there, but be fine with it.

"For we live by faith, not by sight." — 2 Corinthians 5:7

We need to live with faith. A lot of us live without faith, only seeing sight and logical events as truth. We should all live by faith, be it in our religious and/or spiritual journeys, be it in our relationships, be it in our approach to life as a whole or in our business.

Logicality and sight is important too. If you’re obese and you think you can become the new Mike Tyson in under 3 days, stop smoking weed, but what I mean here is that most things we put our mind to, we can achieve.

If you want to open up a business but you’re uncertain if it’s going to work, and you don’t get any big tangible results, continue working. Work in faith, trust the process. If you truly believe that you’ll one day gain the success and the money you so seek, you’ll get it eventually. Just wait, and the universe will give it to you. Ask, and you will receive. But, work your ass off in the same time and make sure that there’s still a true possibility of winning. Even a 1/10000000 chance is plausible. Tempt the impossible.

If you TRULY, really believe that you’ll get something, and you work your ass off toward it, you’ll get it. Want 100000 dollars every month through your business? Work your ass of for years, give everything you’ve got, and you’ll eventually reach it. Don’t think it’s possible? Scared of failing? That’s where faith enter into play.

What if you don’t believe in god

If you’re an atheist, I respect that and I think everyone should have his personal opinion and follow his own path and intuition in life. However, have you ever asked yourself why you don’t believe in god?

Most people don’t believe in god because 1) they’ve never really got interested in studying religion and therefore they’ve never been interested in the story of the religious books or of the different religions and 2) they only think in terms of logical arguments, of scientific researches and proofs.

Because yes, people argue that religion cannot be mixed with science. It’s a basic superstition of religion that stipulates that religion cannot be equal to science, but as you’ll see right now, both can complement each other.

Sure, the Bible for example makes supernatural claims, and God is a supernatural creature, however, is that contradictory to science? No! In the bible, science is still a thing. Nowadays, christians around the world use their phone and still believe in god.

Neurobiologist Lu Chen, PhD, of the University of Stanford, says that "We know very little about the brain. We know about connections, but we don't know how information is processed."

Why am I speaking about the brain? Because for some people, the existence of a brain dismisses the existence of any soul or spiritual energy, giving us life or the feeling of existing in our body. Why a soul wouldn’t exist, since we only know a small part of how the brain function! We have so much to discover with our own bodies, and how brain cells communicate with each other and how the different part of the brain communicate with each other.

Just a slight reminder, we, humans, explored only 5% of the ocean. 5%! This means that 95% of the ocean and of the deep sea is left unexplored. 95 percent, how crazy is that!

Realize that in these 95%, we could make incredible discoveries, such as materials that can never break apart, giant sea turtles, maybe even a civilization under the earth! What do we know about it, how can we say that we can scientifically prove that there is no god, when we don’t even know what’s in our brain or under our feet!

It doesn’t prove that god exists, as this is a matter of faith, but it dismisses the theory that god doesn’t exist because of science. We don’t know anything in comparison to the immensity of the universe, and we would be very shocked if we discovered the crazy things hiding in the deep sea for example.

So sure, science can explain, and I love science, but there’s things that for now we simply can’t explain. Same for space, we might know the superficy of the sun and the name of the different planets or very far universes, but what is even farer than this? Is there another civilisation? Who knows?

There might be NOTHING. Same for the deep sea, there might be absolutely NOTHING, no species, nothing except rock and sand. But there might also be hiding new creatures into the deep sea. Once more, who knows?

So, if the universe was created by the big bang, with incredible things such as the the heating of the universe and infinite expansion of it and bla and bla, isn’t it as realistic that it was created by a god? Isn’t it as realistic that god himself launched the big bang? Should we trust everything to the letter put into the Bible, or should we trust everything to the letter put into the Science Magazine?

So much questions. What I’m trying to convey here, is that, wether you believe 100% in your religious book, that you question things, that you believe in a god but don’t know which one it is, that you are an atheist, there is ALWAYS a possibility for a god to exist.

And, religion is a way to try and explain god, who he is, what he did for us, the world and the universe, our soul and our nature and our history as humans. It’s a way to understand history and the world. And, if you only tune it to what it has to say, you could learn a ton of lessons.

Even outside of believing in religion, it holds many key lessons to living a great life, like the ones I shared above in the article. So, I suggest trying to find interest in religion, even if you don’t want to become religious. It could help you in your spiritual growth or more broadly in your growth.

Conclusion

I hope this article was of help to you. As always, thank you for reading, and I’ll see you next time.

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