How to find God ?
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How to find God ?
Most people know that there is a God. However, He is abstract to them; because, they do not know what He looks like, and have never seen Him, felt Him or heard Him. Many believe that He is a spirit. However, they are not even sure what a spirit is. Fortunately, it is not difficult to find Him, because, He reaches out to us and is knocking on every human heart, begging us to allow Him to enter our heart, and bring us peace and joy. God is Spirit and Love. His Spirit fills the Universe. Spirit is like a force or energy, which we cannot see; but feels its effect. While force and energy affects only material objects spirit, also affect thoughts and minds. The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love that lead human minds and thoughts to acts of sacrificial love, and the energy that sustains human spirit to stay faithful to unconditional love during the most painful trials in life. It brings sublime and enduring love in human hearts.
We often feel godless and do not hear God’s voice, because, our minds and thoughts are clouded by the business of the world. The world is full of selfishness. Selfishness is the source of evil in the world. Selfishness leads to competition, deceit, lust, betrayal and fear. Fear leads to hate, jealousy and revenge. All of them lead to turmoil in our heart and in our relationships with others. To hear and feel God we have to be quiet, free our self of all desires of pleasures and open our heart to His love. To free our selves of the desires of pleasure is very important, because, such desires tend to block our heart from being fully open to His voice. Most importantly, because God is love, we must meditate on His love which He expressed by becoming one of us and dying on the cross for our sins. This will fill us with joy and peace, His words become real to us and we will see His presence in the acts of unconditional love by human beings.
When the storms of earthly misfortunes destroys our stability and security, and there is no one to help us, we feel very alone and helpless. Even our prayers and meditations seem to become sterile and fruitless. Our cries seem like, they go unheard and our faith begins to crumble. Even our friends begin to say, “Why doesn’t God help him”. However, we should not fear, because, this is the time when God in our heart can triumph, because, when we are the weakest, we are the strongest. When everything fails, we become very helpless. This helps us to surrender our will completely to God. This makes us the strongest, because, we allow God to be in charge of our life. Furthermore, when we are humble, we care about others, because, pride does not interfere in our effort to express /which is natural in us-which is love. In other words, the humility within us allows unconditional love (which is God) to show forth.
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04-01-2008, 03:19 AM
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