God’s Perspective Within Us
10/20/08 Inspirations Because we don’t live on the same plane as our Creator, we cannot naturally share His perspective. This is where many people leave their faith on hold – what’s the point of God if He’s so high above us we have nothing to say to Him? But to others this is the very reason for faith – they know from somewhere inside themselves that it’s a loving God that not only knows us, He cares about us and wants a relationship with us.
The place within us from which we carry on a relationship with our Creator we call our spirit. It’s the place where God resides in us, where He places His grace so we may function, and function with a spark of divinity. Our spirit is the place within us that no one but God can touch; where we can be ourselves completely insulated against what the world thinks and demands. It’s where our relationship with God is developed and enjoyed. From here we speak to God; from here we listen to His words. It’s the place where the miracle occurs by which God gifts us with His own spirit – His perspective. It’s only a taste of His perspective, but it contains the hint of hope, peace and joy that we need to trust in the sharing of His full glory in the better world of eternity.
Science will never locate the human spirit anymore than it will ever define the spirit of God. Spirit is on a higher plane than anything we can discern through our natural senses. It’s our supernatural senses that recognize the Divine when the gift of His grace enters our spirit; it’s our supernatural senses that long for something we haven’t defined when that spark is lacking in us.
It’s from our spirits that we pray. Meditation and contemplation are forms of prayer that put us on alert to receive the communication from God that is the focal point of our spirituality. The deeper our desire to share in God’s presence within our spirits, the more God gifts us with the grace to know Him and uncover the divine perspective. In this way we know truth even though we can’t bodily detect it, and reality even though it’s hidden by our own weak position of perspective.
A mystic is a person who has been graced with the awareness of the workings of the spirit and the desire to use the spirit to experience God to the full extent that God intends. They aren’t better people, just specially graced by God. God wants everyone to experience Him through love given and love received. The mystic state is God’s preferred state for us – we are all potential mystics. We will receive God’s grace if we ask for it. To ask for it we must withdraw from worldly things and enter the inner room of our spirit. Here in humility we share with God what comes into our minds, and in obedience listen to what God means to share with us. In this union of communication we can gain the God-given perspective that evolves our best self on the path to perfection leading to everlasting joy.
