As I sat thinking about why so many claim to believe in God, yet don’t truly imitate Him, I realized it’s because they must believe, in an outside God. Yes, God exists everywhere. One can indeed pray to a God who lives somewhere above them. However, with that belief also comes, an unrelateable unprotected distance. To truly feel protected one can't rely on a God, who seems distant. Distance itself leaves ones being feeling vulnerable. This feeling is papable to many who have felt their Godly connection. They know they have temporarily lost their connection, when they begin to experience unhappiness. All the prayers in the world, somehow don’t close that gap. However the conscious understaning of what makes us unhappy is the beginning of our reconnect.
The erroneous part of man's bodily Nature keeps us focused on filling the void, with things. Food, clothes, toys etc, as the temporal satisfactions we seek. They are all wonderful play things, but they will only satisfy us temporaraly, They only become meaningful to our spirit when we acknowledge where they come from. With thankfulness to God, they then become both materially and spiritually purposeful. It is this remembering and acknowledgement that begins...
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christ, confidence, ego vs soul., true faith
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