FINDING GOD
How do you connect with God?
Is it hard? Do you find the
one-sided aspect difficult? Many of us
do. Buddhists and other mystics speak of
meditation and complete surrender to the higher power that they experience and
I always feel unable to relate. The
problem I think is actually of God’s making.
That pesky free will gets in the way of so much not the least of which
is communication with God. Free will is
driven by ego. Aldous Huxley once said that the task of life is to overcome the
fundamental human disability of egoism. It’s
possible that sinking into God without ego is the peace we speak of when people
die. Until that day we have to constantly
strive to perfect our relationship with God.
We have to face the fact that it will never be perfect, that it will be
strained sometimes but the effort is worth it.
Read the prophets; they all experienced the ups and downs of
communicating with God but God always comes through the fog. One prophet sought God in the wind, the
storms, the fire, etc. but God spoke to him in a whisper. The lesson there is that God is always near
and if we are just patient and quiet we will hear what we are meant to
hear.
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