The God I know, the one who once said,
"I am who I am." ("Ego sum qui sum").
He is indeed unique and very interesting. It takes time to discover God, perhaps, a lifetime, but when one discovers God, one then would fall in love with God for eternity. So, it is very important to find the true god with whom we would want to discover and to build relationship. My experience with God is a journey of discoveries over time. It is a relationship that one could start anytime. It starts with a desire to discover God. I think of my journey of discovering and finding God is a romantic novel, a novel that starts when I know nothing about love.
My uncle once asked me "What is love?" when I was twenty years old. I looked at him smiled but did not answer because I had no clues. I later did read some Hallmark cards just to see how others defining love, and they were just nice words, or actions done by others for somebody, but love was just words to me. I remember people would tell me that they love me, and I would respond saying thank you. When I was about twenty-seven years old, my ex-fiance said that he did not love me in a fit of anger on the phone, then I started to feel so much pain that I was crying so hard in my mother's arms. It was then I started to realize that how love felt through experiencing pain.
Then I went on to learn about unconditional love through having children, a journey started sometime in 1987 and it taught me so much about life. The so-called unconditional love only exists if one knows how to love or to give unconditionally. They are just words like any other words until one knows how to hold onto any relationship even when the tough gets going. I learn to forgive myself, others, and to start with a clean slate each day. I like the notion of starting a clean slate each day because it helps me to think clearly, to focus on love as a positive force to keep me going, and to forget the unhappiness that drags me down. I thank God each day to keep me sane, sound, and loving in His love. As a result, I learn about the true meaning of love that is to give or love without expecting anything in return.
The God I know is an elusive, interesting God whom never stops loving me. How do we know if God exists?
According to John14:15-21, Jesus said to his disciples: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer sees me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
To keep God's commandments is easy because they are all based on love, that is, we have to learn to love ourselves and learn how to love or help others the best we know how. However, it could be hard at times because of temptation, greed, jealousy, etc... Therefore, we have to learn to love or give without expecting anything in return, an unconditional love, in order to discover God and to live in God.
"Lifting his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying "Holy Father, I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their words, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your gift to me, I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me. I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them."
- John 17:20-26
I like the "in" notion as mentioned above, it is the ultimate testimony of love. God is love, and love is the main force that keeps us alive through time. To live in God, and the God is living in us, it is such a powerful notion of harmony, of becoming One until eternity. Lord, please keep us in your love and guide us through the journey ahead.
"I am who I am." ("Ego sum qui sum").
He is indeed unique and very interesting. It takes time to discover God, perhaps, a lifetime, but when one discovers God, one then would fall in love with God for eternity. So, it is very important to find the true god with whom we would want to discover and to build relationship. My experience with God is a journey of discoveries over time. It is a relationship that one could start anytime. It starts with a desire to discover God. I think of my journey of discovering and finding God is a romantic novel, a novel that starts when I know nothing about love.
My uncle once asked me "What is love?" when I was twenty years old. I looked at him smiled but did not answer because I had no clues. I later did read some Hallmark cards just to see how others defining love, and they were just nice words, or actions done by others for somebody, but love was just words to me. I remember people would tell me that they love me, and I would respond saying thank you. When I was about twenty-seven years old, my ex-fiance said that he did not love me in a fit of anger on the phone, then I started to feel so much pain that I was crying so hard in my mother's arms. It was then I started to realize that how love felt through experiencing pain.
Then I went on to learn about unconditional love through having children, a journey started sometime in 1987 and it taught me so much about life. The so-called unconditional love only exists if one knows how to love or to give unconditionally. They are just words like any other words until one knows how to hold onto any relationship even when the tough gets going. I learn to forgive myself, others, and to start with a clean slate each day. I like the notion of starting a clean slate each day because it helps me to think clearly, to focus on love as a positive force to keep me going, and to forget the unhappiness that drags me down. I thank God each day to keep me sane, sound, and loving in His love. As a result, I learn about the true meaning of love that is to give or love without expecting anything in return.
The God I know is an elusive, interesting God whom never stops loving me. How do we know if God exists?
According to John14:15-21, Jesus said to his disciples: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer sees me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
To keep God's commandments is easy because they are all based on love, that is, we have to learn to love ourselves and learn how to love or help others the best we know how. However, it could be hard at times because of temptation, greed, jealousy, etc... Therefore, we have to learn to love or give without expecting anything in return, an unconditional love, in order to discover God and to live in God.
"Lifting his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying "Holy Father, I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their words, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your gift to me, I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me. I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them."
- John 17:20-26
I like the "in" notion as mentioned above, it is the ultimate testimony of love. God is love, and love is the main force that keeps us alive through time. To live in God, and the God is living in us, it is such a powerful notion of harmony, of becoming One until eternity. Lord, please keep us in your love and guide us through the journey ahead.
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