August 7, 2012
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How To Contact God – Part XVII
How to Contact God – Part XVII
Things Start Happening…
Well, good job, you did your best, but…”you cannot coerce God” to do anything. First Principle. God is always, totally free to do anything he wants to do, or not do. (and God can do anything at all ! –except, of course, make a rock so heavy He can’t lift it.)
But you haven’t gotten anywhere….
So you might be tempted (there’s that word again) to feel like “what’s the use” and consider yourself one seriously misdirected human being (especially when you see all the cool and groovy things your friends have been doing while you’ve been sitting with your eyes closed in the easy chair.)
But, friend, it’s just at this time…just when you have convinced yourself that God cannot be contacted, that God reaches out and does something – to contact you!
But you almost certainly won’t recognize it as God doing it. It won’t dawn on you until much later that God had orchestrated some incredible series of events in the real world, all for your benefit, i.e. to satisfy and assist your search for Him.
Once several of these events have occurred in your life, you might just become able to see, and feel, God’s “hand” at work in external events, but I wouldn’t bet on it because God is so slick, so subtly tender and considerate as to seem virtually invisible, even to an expert. God operates on a First Principle too…”Do not crimp the Freedom of the human.” So, He stays backstage mostly, like a chef in a restaurant. We have so many things that crimp our own Freedom already, that God is exceedingly careful about protecting and nuturing whatever we have left of it. Besides, He wants to be loved for WHO HE IS, not for what He can do for you. That’s why you are on this inner search in the first place – to find HIM.
Be aware that this external event in which you suddenly find yourself becoming immersed is just an OUTWARD expression of God’s intention to achieve union of being with YOU. There will also be occurring internal events of a purely spiritual nature occurring in your life which are also being orchestrated by God, and which, also, you are most probably totally unaware of likewise.
So, what is going on? Well, God is all excited about you, about your search for Him. This type of thing is why God made the Universe, so He’s been waiting a long time you might say for you to get to this point, and now that you are there…BANG…ZOOM…God is not going to let the moment pass without doing His utmost to bring about a happy satisfaction.
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Now, you may ask: “What is God going to do?” and/or, “Is God really going to do something in the real world for my behalf and benefit?”
Yes, it is true, God is orchestrating the Universe, or at least your little part of it, for your eternal salvation. That’s why he made you really tall, or really normal looking, or slightly slow in math, or with funny warts on your back, or born with a club foot, or … it all will fit together most marvelously for your eternal benefit. Provided you stick with what you have begun so well.
However, I cannot tell you what particular things God will do for you as an individual because God has an infinite bag of tricks up His sleeve, and can do anything He wants, and is the Master of your Soul, and In all things because they exist because of Him. So, you really have no idea what your destiny will be. But it will occur as a result of your free choices in response to the events in your life.
To get an idea of what God MIGHT BE DOING at this very moment in your life, I suggest you ask certain people about their conversion experience. A conversion experience occurs when the SEEKER, that’s you, encounters God. It’s a breakthrough experience, and very wonderful. It is almost always totally unexpected and unusual, because God is Divine, and not human, He therefore always defies our expectations, and shocks and surprises us. (Some people find it too much to handle, and turn away.)
Therefore I suggest that you not only ask committed lifelong Christians about their breakthrough experiences, but maybe also look online for conversion stories. Google it. “Rebirth experiences.” “Conversion stories.” Things like that….there must be some good ones out there….Maybe sometime soon I will tell you mine.
