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What Is God and Where Do I Find God?
A young man wrote the Fellowship asking “What is God and where do I find God?” A vital question to ask as we continue our spiritual journey this lifetime!
Christ said two laws are more important than all others: to love God with all our heart and with all our being, and to love our fellow human beings as we love ourselves. These are the twin paths to knowing God. Believing in and loving God is one path that leads naturally to loving others. Or we may begin with our love of others and through this, find God.
Many of us have an innate sense of a higher power, a greater Intelligence behind the orderly operation of the universe and the events of our lives. But those who question or doubt need some help to reason toward this understanding, and as they make this effort, their faith grows stronger.
The truth that God is good is a starting point. Those who recognize God’s presence in themselves, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, or any God-centered faith, have one universal quality in common. They’ve learned to recognize that all we do either reflects God or it doesn’t. They’ve learned things they can do that reflect God more strongly in themselves.
In a family, marriage, or with friends, we often do unselfish things for each other. Have you noticed how your love for someone deepens when they perform some kindness for you? And haven’t you done things for them just to see the joy on their faces and experience the happiness this brings?
Sometimes, the depth of this love becomes most evident when someone you love dies. You know the ache of losing them, the feelings of loss. Having someone you can freely give your kindness and love to is priceless. You love being able to share yourself, your deepest thoughts, your dreams with someone close. You could do this with anyone, but there are some with whom these feelings have grown over time, so instead of spreading these acts of love to all we meet, we reserve them for those we trust to respect them. By doing this, do we limit our expression of God, and thereby, our recognition of God?
When children leave home for the first time, unless they have learned to reach out easily to others, there will be a noticeable hole in their lives. It will be a lonely time and they will feel homesick. Those who have learned to let others into their lives and give of themselves will soon find those they can love and who will love back.
Secrets about the nature of God are more easily discovered in the heart than in the head. Look for God through the good you feel and experience. If you go contrary to God and what the Creator represents your whole basis of belief will flicker and grow dimmer until it is all but undetectable. But practice being your best and your understanding of God will increase. Try to live as God intended humans to act toward each other, and you will find God.
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Finding this blog is so timely. A neighbor’s visiting sister asked me, just a day ago, whether Lemurians view God anthropomorphically, as a He. Woah! I had already asked silently for help talking to this lady, when she mentioned the Mt. Shasta Lemurians. I found myself saying, I have no idea how to describe what I think of as God, a concept way beyond my ability. I told her for the sake of discussion, we think of all things physical as “Mother Nature,” and all things non-visible, as God, the Father, reflecting the duality of it all. Fortunately she could connect with this idea, and the discussion went forward to other things. Now, reading this blog and your good thoughts, posts, it will be easier to get right to the idea of the “Good,” as well.
One of the concepts of the word God that I’m wrestling with lately is comparing the idea that God is a noun and therefore can be described as a thing, an object, a person, something one can observe, possess, seek after and find, i. e., something external. Perhaps a better way of thinking about God is that God is more like a verb, an action, and an encompassing state of being. Is God someone/something external to me and therefore can intercede in my life and affairs? Instead, I imagine God as integral to me in whom I live, who lives in me, and from whom I have my very being. And from whom I cannot ever be separated! If this is true, then God is in everyone of us and as stated in the article: “Try to live as God intended humans to act toward each other, and you will find God.“
I knock on the door marked “God” and it opens from the inside.
These are interesting ideas, Robert, and helpful to me personally. As I think about it and look back, I think I’m finding that as I’ve moved away from picturing God as a person or entity separate from me and the rest of creation, but rather as universal intelligence connected to creation in a way that makes the universe “as One,” then it’s much easier and more natural to be more patient, tolerant, and caring towards others.
Another attribute that is intertwined with goodness and love is the fact that God is truth. I can see that blatant deception and lack of honesty is not good. However, it is sometimes difficult to detect the true nature of people and situations without looking for the subtle goodness and beauty within. This can be done if you make an effort to really know other people and give events more than a superficial look. When Pontius Pilate asked Christ, “What is Truth?”, he may not have realized that he was talking to the embodiment of Truth.
I had a difficult time finding God. Or perhaps I should say that because I had rejected so much of what I had learned about God in my younger days, it became impossible for me to find Him. At some point, I even considered myself an atheist. Of course, this was the most miserable time of my life. Yet it was because of that misery that I eventually began to, once again, search for God. “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” A door was opened when I became willing. At first, only a crack, but in time, the door opened more and more until I had grown enough in my search for God that I was ready to become a student of the Lemurian Philosophy. “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” And so it was with me. It’s good to be a seeker; to look for that something more, for that purpose in life, that thing gives life meaning. But sooner or later, we need to find “it”. Fortunately for me, I found my “it” when I became a student of the Lemurian Philosophy.
My “it” also, Spencer. Well said!