WHY

***Have you ever thought you knew everything about yourself and you didn’t. Sometimes you go back and your mind and try to put the pieces together and try to solve the mystery of why and how. But somehow you realize that there is a season for everything and the bible does state the secret things belong unto God (Deut 29:29). Also everything has a purpose. Traveling to various countries will make you appreciate the global differences, but one thing we all have in common refers to Maslow's hierchary of needs (listed below).

Physiological Needs
These are biological needs. They consist of needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature. They are the strongest needs because if a person were deprived of all needs, the physiological ones would come first in the person's search for satisfaction.

Safety Needs
When all physiological needs are satisfied and are no longer controlling thoughts and behaviors, the needs for security can become active. Adults have little awareness of their security needs except in times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting). Children often display the signs of insecurity and the need to be safe.

Needs of Love, Affection and Belongingness
When the needs for safety and for physiological well-being are satisfied, the next class of needs for love, affection and belongingness can emerge. Maslow states that people seek to overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation. This involves both giving and receiving love, affection and the sense of belonging.

Needs for Esteem
When the first three classes of needs are satisfied, the needs for esteem can become dominant. These involve needs for both self-esteem and for the esteem a person gets from others. Humans have a need for a stable, firmly based, high level of self-respect, and respect from others. When these needs are satisfied, the person feels self-confident and valuable as a person in the world. When these needs are frustrated, the person feels inferior, weak, helpless and worthless.

Needs for Self-Actualization
When all of the foregoing needs are satisfied, then and only then are the needs for self-actualization activated. Maslow describes self-actualization as a person's need to be and do that which the person was "born to do." "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write." These needs make themselves felt in signs of restlessness. The person feels on edge, tense, lacking something, in short, restless. If a person is hungry, unsafe, not loved or accepted, or lacking self-esteem, it is very easy to know what the person is restless about. It is not always clear what a person wants when there is a need for self-actualization.

Accordingly all of us have emotions, affections, desires, will, thought life and everything that makes up who we are. For this reason it is important to understand who you are and where you come from. In life there are many mysteries about who we are and although all things are not meant for us to know, something's you have to inquire about. For instance, a child not knowing the truth about their genetic background. One may ask why doesn’t the child know these things. We can go on for days looking for the whys and the answers to these until we are silly. Sometimes it is best to let the unknown remain as it is, other times there is a definite need to know.

You are more than a conqueror

***“Nay in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." (Rom 8:37) A conqueror is one that overcomes various obstacles and circumstances. The Webster collegiate dictionary defines conqueror as one that gains mastery over or win by overcoming obstacles or opposition. The other definition states to overcome by mental or moral power. I like the biblical quotation from Romans stating that in all things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Particularly focusing on the word all. The word all is a powerful word although it is only 3 letters long. All indicates the whole of an amount, area, quantity or thing is involved or affected. The word all also includes every and everything in life. Of course in life they are various obstacles, circumstances, struggles, let downs and disappointments, but Apostle Paul reminds us that “in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us”. And because he loved us there is not a hurdle that we cannot jump over.