Equanimity – What Plane Are You On?

Mental composure or calmness; evenness of temper. Peace, what a wonderful thing. Everyone of us wants tranquility. For instance, like when we stop and gaze at the beautiful scenery. For the time being, it removes all our stress, our troubles, it empties us of the things that cause us to be busy inside ourselves. Every moment of every day we are usually thinking about something.

But what we’re going to talk about here is the thoughts that cause us to feel pain or pleasure from humiliation or honor. This is a form of pride. We feel the pain of pride when things don’t go our way or when people say or do things that we don’t like. Jealousy also takes it toll on us. That was our lows, now for the high. Recognition, we all love it and some of us can’t survive without it, it can become an obsession. To some, it can be very painful to not be honored for what they’ve done. Some even go as far as honoring themselves. You might say,” But don’t we deserve to be honored for the good things we do”, no, God does. Luke 18:19 Jesus said to him,’ Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone’. He’s the one that...