God and You
4/25/09 Inspirations God doesn’t share with us all He knows. First because He is already here for us; we don’t need to know all because God does the providing and protecting. Second, it isn’t in our makeup to be able to know God completely, any more than your dog can absorb the ramifications of gravity on the Frisbee you’ve thrown for him — it affects him greatly, but it just is; not needing to be understood in order for him to play the game.
But God does share His mind with us. You can’t separate His whispers from the reflection you yourself produce through reason, because it’s all one in the same creation. Analyze anything you like – it all comes back to the Creator; He is the reason anything exists. The atheistic belief that anything we see can exist without being created is the greatest leap of faith of all. At least faith in God is based on possibility.
The point in this is the very underpinning of devotional mysticism. Though we can’t know the mind of God, we are intricately wound up in it and captured by it’s desires. You can set aside human considerations anytime to be with God and accept what part of His knowledge and grace He wishes to share with you. You don’t need crystals or tea leaves – just a humble willingness to listen to what God wants you to hear. You don’t do it to further your self-assurance, self-awareness, or self-worth; you do it because it’s what the Creator asks. You don’t make up rituals or rules and partake in group hysteria; you just go quietly to one side and pray.
None of it is very impressive to the rest of the world, but its very humility defines what’s best about it — devotional mysticism is between God and you. How powerful this relationship is when undiluted by unimportant, worldly concerns. God and you – unreserved exchange of love independent of anything else to hold you back and keep you away from each other.
When you do this, you find out what joy and peace is really about. You understand which gifts are the most cherished, which relationships the most beneficial, which desires the most satisfying, which laws the most liberating. You discover the spark of God which has always been in you, waiting to be recognized and appreciated. And best of all, you find that you’re worthy of God’s love and promise of perfection, which makes what you do in this life a beautiful expression of assurance and gratitude.
