All about love, not needing disasters

When we go looking for God we should realise that God is all about love. When we are not willing to love ourselves (being creatures created in the image of God), love those around us, love the creatures, animals and plants around us, it will be difficult to come to see where God’s Hand is at work.

Lots of people do not see God at work as long as everything looks good for them, but as soon something terrible happens in their life they start looking for God. Though we do not need something terrible to happen in our life for going to look for God or to find Him. He is everywhere and wants to be found.

A rope tornado in its dissipating stage, Tecumseh, Oklahoma.

He does not punishes anybody with earthquakes, tsunamis or other natural disasters. He is a God of love who calls for His creatures without putting an extra burden onto them. When we are willing to look at the beauty of the earth around us we shall come to see the Master’s Hand.

Surrounded by all luxurious materials we live in a world where many are not interested in God, but that should not keep you away form looking for Him. All those things you see around you should make you wonder if you deserve them and how it comes to be possible to live in such a world of technology and wonders of nature.

Every season brings new and different beauties and shows how miraculously inventive everything is made. No man would ever be capable to make such microcosm.

There is the miniature world which surpasses anything what man can make. Though man wants to place himself most often in the centre of the universe he is just a small-scale model of that grand universe, which is spoken off in the Book of books, presenting the many stars as grains of sands on the beach, uncountable.

“Man is callyd the lasse worlde, for he shewyth in hymselfe lyknesse of all the worlde,”

wrote John Trevisa when he translated the Latin text of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ encyclopedia in the 14th century. {Examples of microcosm in a sentence – Merriam Webster dictionary}

The stages of life from infancy to old age. Woodcut from De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Putting one foot in front of the other, to keep going in this system of things, each person receives many influences and can have contact with many ideas or thoughts, bringing him in positions to chose.

When hearing all those people expressing their ideas, being confronted with so much variety of understandings, you should know that there is that Book of books which can give so much clarification and which can give you so much insight, making your search so much easier. Therefore best provide yourself with a copy of the bible.
In it you shall be able to find examples of many people who also where doubting about their existence and the role of a god or the God in it. In it you shall also hear about disasters that took take place and about trouble people got themselves in, and how God came to their rescue.

By going back in history looking at the many examples who found God and who let themselves be guided by God you also shall be able to find God.

Try finding people around you with whom you can talk about God and about His creation. Know that it does not always have to be big churches that are bringing Biblical truth. Remember also that Jesus gave his followers the task to go out into the world to preach the gospel of the coming Kingdom. Try to talk to such people who walk on the streets or who come at your doorstep. Those preachers following Jesus probably are the best ones to get you on your way to look for God.

We are here for you. In the hope of helping you, we also hope you shall be able to find some sincere lovers of God in your neighbourhood to help you. But do not worry if you do not find them. Even on your own, you shall be able to find God if you sincerely want to look for Him.

Do not wait until something bad happens in your life, but start today, not postponing because it is now you have to live with the idea that it can be finished at any moment.

Success.

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1. Luck
2. Live …
3. Doubting and going astray
4. Experiencing God
5. Creator and Blogger God 5 Things to tell
6. Creator and Blogger God 6 For His people
7. Creator and Blogger God 7 A Blog of a Book 1 Believing the Blogger
8. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
9. Necessity of a revelation of creation 8 By no means unintelligible or mysterious to people
10. Best intimate relation to look for
11. Jehovah God Maker of the entire universe served by a well-trained army
12. Are you looking for answers and Are you looking for God
13. May the Lord direct your hearts to …
14. Great things being heard and seen, sings of God
15. Summerholiday season time to read the Bible
16. Material gain to honour God
17. Cognizance at the doorstep or at the internet socket
18. Dealing With the “Silence” of God
19. Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
20. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
21. God demonstrates his own love
22. He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
23. What Jesus did: First things first
24. The Law of Christ: Law of Love
25. Unconditional love
26. Christianity is a love affair
27. When discouraged facing opposition
28. Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
29. Engaging the enemy
30. If You want to start winning the war
31. Do not forget the important sign of belief
32. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
33. The task given to us to love each other
34. To be chained by love for another one
35. Agape, a love to share with others from the Fruit of the Spirit
36. Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience
37. Reflect on how much idolizing happens
38. Life and attitude of a Christian
39. Reflection for today: hating your brother
40. Self-preservation is the highest law of nature
41. A treasure which can give me everything I need
42. Unarmed truth and unconditional love
43. Blessed are those who freely give
44. Work with joy and pray with love
45. No fear in love
46. The one who has not had a taste of love
47. God loving people justified
48. The Greatest of These is Love
49. Love envieth not
50. Growth in character
51. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness
52. Spread love everywhere you go
53. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair
54. When we love we do not need laws
55. Love turns one person into two; and two into one
56. Love is like playing the piano
57. Love will cure more sins than condemnation
58. Love and cultivate that which is pure
59. If we love one another, God lives in us
60. Those who make peace should plant peace like a seed
61. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #16 Benefits of praying
62. God let my compassionate affection be tolerant and kind
63. The Spirit of God imparts love,inspires hope, and gives liberty
64. A Living Faith #2 State of your faith
65. A Living Faith #3 Faith put into action
66. A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
67. Observing the commandments and becoming doers of the Word
68. When not seeing or not finding a biblically sound church
69. When seeing a biblically sound church
70. a little church
71. Small churches of the few Christadelphians

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Looking for the perceptible or the latent or what needed for us

We should not be so caught up with the “things of this world” that we forget what really matters.

Churches bringing their own myths and doctrinal teachings – St. Augustine of Hippo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In this system of things most people love to follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever they want to hear. Most people will reject the truth and follow strange myths, because they look more interesting or intriguing than that what is plainly told in the Holy Scriptures (2 Timothy 4:3-5) . You who want to know more about life, your reason why being here, wanting to know What or Who is about your life, should keep a clear mind in every situation.

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” So began St. Augustine of Hippo in his famous spiritual autobiography, Confessions.

If you are feeling this restless tug on your own soul, you’ve come to a good place.

With our writings we want to show you the Way to God by providing some honest, thoughtful writings on the search for truth and God and showing you biblical teachings concerning man’s position and God‘s place in the universe.

We would like to convince you that Christianity might be the best solution for you. It can satisfy both our hearts and our minds. Christianity is not only a comprehensive worldview, but reveals to us a God who lovingly meets both our existential needs and our longing for truth and salvation from all these troubles of the earth.

Though God can not be seen He is real and we do hope that these articles will be useful to you in your search to know God.

The problem with many people is that they created an illusionary God, making Him like they see any other man. They If we envisage God as a person clothed with epithets such as powerful, loving, just, fear-inspiring and omnipotent, creating a manmade image.

In his book, The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud points out

“Religion comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality.” In other words we have an innate tendency to invent the particular God that suits our needs. Ironically this is precisely what the second commandment fulminates against. A paradox lies at the heart of the doorstep caller’s question. The more you claim to know God and attempt to delineate his nature the less likely you are to have hit the bull’s eye.

We must be careful not to become trapped in the world’s imaginable ideas of godheads or should do everything to escape from this impasse by re-orienteering our thought forms.

Some may say

Faith is not the progressive unearthing of God’s nature but a recognition that he/she is fundamentally unknowable.

They forget that God Himself has given His Word to come to get to know Him. He provided all means to find truth and to find harmony and Him and to get to know more about Him, His intentions and His people.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck, the 14th century Augustinian and man of prayer, maintained that

“God is immeasurable and incomprehensible, unattainable and unfathomable”.

St John of the Cross, one of the pillars of western mysticism, put it even more succinctly:

“If a man wishes to be sure of the road he travels on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.”

for sure the world walks already many centuries in the dark and it is getting high time to come into the light. Light provided by the Majestic Majesty Himself. Many are rudderless in a sea of uncertainty. All the old props of a father God, prayer as colloquy with a personal deity and faith as a clear-cut assent to a set of credal formulations has been deconstructed and abandoned.

The school, with the statue of its Patron Saint, St. Augustine of Hippo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We must know that man has created lots of dogma’s, teachings people would have to believe to be so but of which they had to know they must believe it to be true though it might be so unbelievable, because man could not comprehend it. Do know God did not make it so complicated. God is a God of love, order and tranquillity, who wants people to know Him.

We have to release us from the burden of kowtowing to the dictates of what people say what would be in a holy book. We should liberate us from the human dictations and consider more what is really written in the Book of books. By opening our eyes wanting to come to see what is really written in the Bible we shall be able to become  relieved of the intellectual difficulties of accepting the dogmatic assertions of an ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Listening to the Maker himself, letting the Words of God come to you, you shall come to see how chains may become unlocked. You shall notice how you too may be liberated and can follow your own spiritual path. Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, spent a lifetime doing just this and found it uncovered an oasis of calmness and peace.

“Follow my ways and I will lead you to golden-haired suns, Logos and music, blameless joys, Innocent of questions and beyond answers: For I, Solitude, am thine own self: I, Nothingness, am thy All. I Silence, am thy Amen!”

Give it a whirl. It might just free you from the shackles of orthodoxy and kickstart your spiritual life.

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1. Words in the world
2. The Bible: God’s Word or pious myth?
3. Of old and new ideas to sustain power and to feel good by loving to be connected and worship something
4. Christianity without the Trinity
5. Preparing for the Kingdom
6. Creator and Blogger God 10 A Blog of a Book 4 Listening to the Blogger
7. Not bounded by labels but liberated in Christ

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