Friday, February 11, 2011

God's Secrets

People guard secrets. People covet what they have, what they've "earned," what they think they own, what they think is owed to them. People resist sharing in the smallest, most petty ways.

But God doesn't resist. God doesn't want to hide. It is we who hide from God. We are the ones who refuse to listen, who refuse to share our lives with God, our troubles, our worries, or even more importantly, the gifts and abundance God has given us. We have been called on to share, to lift each other up; if you haven't noticed, we were designed this way. No one person can do all things; we have weaknesses, limitations, gaps in our knowledge and understanding. Children need parents. Man needs woman. Mankind, in turn, needs God.

When seeking God's secrets, there is no great need to travel. If you cannot find God in your bedroom, then you will not find Him in Africa, in Europe, over seas or under the earth, or even on the moon. If you cannot see God in yourself, you will not see Him in the world. Do not be consumed by illusions that we create for ourselves, "pretending" to see God in things, forcing ourselves to "know" unity, grabbing onto the concept and beating it into ourselves until we think it is permanent. No idea is permanent. God's secrets are revealed by a union with the Spirit, and this can only be found through prayer, through asking, through a sudden leap of revelation and an awakening of the heart.

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