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God is Present - Right Here, Right Now!, by Gail Gupton |
One searches, during his lifetime, for God in many places. Some travel across the ocean and around the world in search of answers to an unknown inner longing. It has been taught that God will be found in books, temples, holy places. Because Orthodox religion teaches God is to be found in heavenly places, many believe they'll finally find God when their human life here on earth is absolved. One's human life is filled with so many human activities, is it no wonder they never find Him? To be still and listen reveals God to be right here, where "I AM". There is no spot where God is not. The revelation to this truth often comes when one least expects it. It comes when one is in the very depths of what the human experience would identify as "negative situations". It comes when one finds himself in "hell", not in "heaven". It comes when one comes to the "end of his rope", when all else fails. Once this truth, that God is within one's very being, dawns upon the individual conciousness, never again can one become separated from the Father. Only as one takes God out of his consciousness, will he experience once again the "things of this world" - the ups and downs, sickness and health, riches and poverty. As the human world is full of doing, going, getting, acquiring, one can sit still and contemplate the nature of God, the true nature will be revealed. It is an individual experience and one that leaves a person with a sense of knowing "All is well", "I am with you", "I will be with you eternally," "I will never leave you nor depart from you", "Be still, and know that I am God". With revelation of truth comes liberty, freedom. It matters not what form of bondage in which one may consider himself, the realization that God is right here, where "I am" dissolves the veil. The truth is so simple. So simple, in fact, that people disbelieve it. So simple, that people for generations will continue to look for it in places other than where it is. God really IS present - right here, right now.
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