Actually God has been trying to contact you…and has finally gotten you to read this blog!

The problem with contacting God, if it can be said to be a “problem”, and I don’t think it is, is that God is not human. (Jesus is not human.) And cross “species” (if you will allow the use of that term) is always an adventure in miscommunication.
The thing is… we want God to be human. That way we can understand Him better, and feel less ill at ease while dealing with a Superior Being.
The funny thing is…God tried His best to accomodate us….squeezing down into our human nature, and showing up as a man in historical time and place….Jesus. But, though Jesus had a human body, and a human soul, Jesus was/is God….which led to big unpleasantness for Him.
So the FIRST RULE of trying to make contact with God (the Creator of the Universe) is: you gotta keep in your head WHO you are trying to deal with. GOD. God is not going to be anything other than God. Which means among other things (and I DON’T KNOW all that much about GOD, in fact, next to nothing! – but I do know this, that He is What He IS, and that’s that.)…you CANNOT MANIPULATE GOD.
Rule ONE: GOD CANNOT BE MANIPULATED.
You can’t get Him to do what YOU want. With God, His Freedom and Creativity are ABSOLUTE and cannot be crimped in the least by anything. Anything God does, He does it because HE wants to, and ONLY because HE wants to.
Having said that, I want to immediately qualify it. God is really very nice, and loving. ”God is LOVE.” so says St. John. So, He listens to what you want him to do, but, entirely has his own ideas about what to do about it. God spent a very long time working with the Hebrews trying to establish the inter-relation between His absolute freedom and his absolute goodness. Since God made everything, including all the people, He can slaughter them anytime He wants. His FREEDOM TO ACT is absolute. Does that mean God is not being GOOD….NO! It might seem to us that God is not being good when certain things happen, but we are not allowing GOD to be GOD when we enforce and conjoin our human perspective on Him. Divine Justice is also Merciful, and Good. Try looking for God’s point of view instead of insisting on your human point of view. How many times does God say in the Scripture: “MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS.” and, “what is folly to you is wisdom to ME, and what is wisdom to you is folly to ME.”
this problem must be dispensed with by realizing it is part of the inter-species communication disjunction that is inherent in all attempts to make contact with GOD.
So to phrase RULE ONE somewhat differently: LET GOD BE GOD, i.e. grant to Him total Sovereignty over all creation, including yourself and your mother-in-law. In order to establish inter-species communication on the right frequency and wavelength, i.e. in TRUTH, the ground rules for communication must be correct.
Satan refused to do this. RULE ONE really means that you must WORSHIP God.
God is dangerous. Heck, standing next to an elephant is dangerous. One false move by either you OR the elephant and you are nothing more than toe-jam. God is to be feared, and I think any electrician can realize that 400,000 amps of current is nothing to trivialize, treat off-handedly, or be careless about. God deserves your full attention, which is not to say that God is not unbelievably funny. It’s just that, well, RULE ONE always stays in effect.
So, it’s time for FIRST CONTACT. close your eyes. Because God is everywhere (THAT’s WHO we are talking about…the Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Creator Being) he is inside you, too.
Say, “HI” to HIM.
and bow, (as profoundly as you can muster), acknowledging HIM as God as fully you can.
Voila!!! You have succeeded in making contact with GOD!
Hold that thought. ”HI.” as long as you can. let it resonate in the darkness inside your mind. (Mind involves much more than just brain…your heart…as well as your reproductive organs…and all your biological systems are accessed by mind, and present in Mind’s motion.)
At this point (while your lovely “HI” is being transmitted – and received – in the total darkness of your inner being) a very serious problem begins to afflict you. Some would call it, “doubt.” I prefer to call it “the existential condition of your personal Rationality.”
You don’t believe there is a God. This exercise begins to seem as silly (and delusional) as talking to your car (which you did just THIS morning possibly!!). Or, at the very least, you are not sure there is a God. Rationally speaking you are not a Theist. So, you cannot do this simple exercise in TRUTH without feeling both/either DELUSIONAL, or just simply DISHONEST.
I can dig it. …And so can God. But contact has been made. whether you want to acknowledge it or not, the message was transmitted by you, and received by HIM. (And, dear reader, there is nothing to prohibit you from trying this simple exercise of saying Hi, and bowing, a couple of times, or more, despite your doubt – remember God has absolute FREEDOM to do what He wants about your feeble little, “hello there, here I am” message.)
The NEXT BLOG will pick up right here, and move into a greater contact than this simple spark, a spark that seemed to do nothing and be of no consequence whatsoever.
But let me tell you…if a scientist sees a spark, coming out of a wet rag, that is BIG NEWS, and any decent scientist will report it to the whole world, and spend the next several years trying to figure out what the hell caused that spark. And God is pretty excited by that little spark too!

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