July 10
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Today's
quotation:
There's
an old saying that God made us in His image,
and we've
been trying to return the favor ever since. People often view God
in a human image. This God
changes His mind, gets upset, answers
some prayers
but not others, loves some people but not others. But even with that limited image, if we pray sincerely,
we'll
eventually realize that God is changeless.
He's the
same all the time
because He's not in time-- time is in Him.
Michael
Beckwith
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Today's
Meditation:
We like
to limit God in our minds. We put him/her/it into one of
these limited human bodies, we attribute petty things to
God, and we accuse God of some pretty silly things.
What we do is create a God who's not really God, but just
some being who's only slightly more powerful, slightly
more omniscient than we are. This is a shame,
because our thoughts of God should help us through life
rather than limit our perspective of God.
Of
course, many people don't even believe that a God exists,
so this doesn't really matter to them. That's
okay. Personally, I believe in a force that's
greater than ourselves, and I think that that's what God
is-- I don't subscribe to the belief that God is just a
being in human form. God has to be more than that,
or s/he wouldn't be God at all. We've been created
to love and to explore and to enjoy and learn and grow,
and this doesn't feel like an accident to me. I
don't try to assign a form to God, and I don't claim to
know anything about God's powers or motivations. God
simply is to me, and one day I may find out the true
nature of God. For now, though, I'm focused on
trying to discover the true nature of me and the world in
which I live.
Your
relationship with God is your relationship with God.
It's for you to define and you to enjoy. And if you
say there is no God, I respect that-- I've been wrong about
a lot of things in life, so who's to say that I'm not
wrong when I say that there's a God?
If
you do have a relationship with God, though, make sure
that it's a healthy one. Don't blame God for you
being sick-- that's a question of germs or viruses or DNA
or bacteria. Don't blame God for a failed
relationship-- those generally happen because it's time to
move on to a healthier relationship. Don't think
that God is keeping score and looking for ways to punish
you-- God is love, and love doesn't do that. Give all
you can to the relationship without expectations of
returns, and you'll find that the returns end up being far
more wonderful than you ever would have expected.
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Questions to
consider:
Why do so many people want God to look just like us?
Why do so many people want God to be a God of retribution,
who's going to punish us for every little mistake that we
make?
How do you see God? |
For further
thought:
A
tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God
is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if not positively
unpleasant.
Consciously or not some persons look upon God as a
hard taskmaster, or a severe parent. . . . The truth is that the will of
God
for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, newer and
brighter experience, wider opportunity of service to others—life more
abundant.
Emmet Fox
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