HOW CAN I FIND GOD?
How can a person find God?
Is it really possible to find God? ABSOLUTELY!
God wants you to find Him. He really does!
Not only does God want you
to find Him, He wants you to get to KNOW
Him!
AFTER ALL - YOUR WHOLE
PURPOSE FOR BEING CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE IS TO GLORIFY GOD. In
glorifying God ... God will bless you through eternity!
So dear one ... You owe it to yourself
to find God, because once you find God, you’ll begin to understand
what life is
really
all about.
Furthermore - you’ll
never be truly happy . . . until you find God.
God reveals His
reality to people in many different ways, but there is ONE way that God
desires we seek Him above all others in our pursuit to find Him. I’ll be sharing which way that is
below.
However … it is only
fair that I first ask you a very, very important question. It is also very
important that you answer this question honestly. Otherwise … you may be
hindered in your effort to find God.
What if God asks you to
be one of His closest friends? Will that delight you, or will it scare you? If
the thought of it scares you, PLEASE don’t let it. God is looking for
people who are HONEST, and who will allow Him to become their closest
friend.
I just shared a key
insight with you that you must never forget about God. God does not delight
in
making friends with people who are dishonest. Dishonest people are people God
cannot trust. Do YOU want a God who is dishonest, or do you want a God
you can trust? The answer should be obvious:
“I want a God I can trust!”
Do you have a close
friend? If you do, I’ll bet the number one reason that person is your closest
friend is because you can trust him or her. We don’t keep friends around for
very long when we can’t trust them, do we? Should we expect anything less of
God? The most fulfilling friendship is a friendship built on honesty.
Are you married? Do you
desire your mate to be totally honest with you? Sure you do. Your mate wants
the same thing. Your mate wants you to never lie. No marriage will ever be all
it could be when one or both persons in that marriage lie to the other. The
most fulfilling marriage is a relationship built on honesty.
Should it surprise us
then that God is extremely reluctant to have any meaningful relationship with a
person who is dishonest?
Dishonesty is lying, and
lying is actually a form of betrayal. A person who doesn’t mind
betraying another will betray God just as quickly, and because God knows each of
our capacity to betray another if the right circumstances would seem to justify
it … God will remain distant; it will be difficult for us to properly connect
with Him.
Those who have no
objections to lying are those who are the most vulnerable to being conned –
being deceived. Were you aware of that? On the other hand, those who strive to be
honest at all costs are the most difficult to lie to, because God enables them
to sense the lie, sometimes as quickly as it is even being told.
A person who has no
objections to lying is a person who has a serious major character flaw. That
major character flaw is selfishness. Selfishness will do just about anything it
must to get its way, even if it has to lie, but the one thing selfishness will
not obtain for us is close friendship with God. When we are
selfish, we place a barrier between ourselves and God, and sadly, may not even
realize the harm it is doing - the hindrance it is causing - in our pursuit of God.
Honest people are those
God delights in revealing Himself to the most. The more we strive to be
honest, the easier it becomes to connect to God.
The greatest reason God
remains such a mystery in this life to so many is because they have never
understood that God’s name is not only Truth, they also are not aware that God
IS Truth. In fact, God is the personification of Truth. When you ARE
Truth, which God IS, should it really be any great surprise to us
that God so much hates liars – hates dishonesty – hates betrayers who will
betray to have their own selfish way … that He simply will have little to do
with them?
Lord - help me to know what TRUTH is
You can pray and pray
and pray to God, and it will be like talking to yourself, because in most cases your prayers
will be ignored by God, if you are praying every prayer under the sun but this
prayer: “God – please reveal to me how to find Truth. I truly want to know what
Truth is. I want to know who Truth is."
It is for this very
reason that making the most money one can make in this life with no regard to
how it might adversely affect others, let alone ourselves, becomes a “substitute
God” without one even realizing, let alone caring. Addiction to sexual and
personal pleasure at almost any cost, entertainment, fame, power, revenge … that
which we desire the most becomes a “substitute God” and we can live and die
without even realizing it.
Dear one - you need to know this if you don't.
There is a difference between this world's truth and God's Truth. A HUGE
difference!
God's Truth is not found in
sexual bliss. God's Truth is not found in personal pleasure of any kind.
God's Truth is not found in education. God's Truth is
not found in having a lot of money, nor more money than everyone else.
God's Truth is
not being the most famous, nor being the most powerful. God's Truth is not found
by trusting superior intellect. God's Truth is ONLY
found when you crave more than anything else to have a meaningful
relationship with His Truth. This might sound a little "far fetched"
to you, but please keep reading.
Knowing ABOUT God
will never alone satisfy the person who places honesty above all other character
traits a person can have. Experiencing God is the only thing that truly
satisfies. One can never fully experience God until one is willing to base the
friendship on honesty. In fact, God won’t allow it to be based on anything else.
Not only is God Truth
personified, God is also Love personified. Loving someone can only
be the most satisfying – the most fulfilling - when that love-relationship is
built on the foundation of honesty. Trying to find God and connect with God to
know you are truly loved by God is not obtainable, dear one, unless you are
willing to surrender your option to lie - your option to be dishonest - should it
seem to suit your selfish purpose.
You can know about
God, but never really get to KNOW God, if you are willing to have an
affair with dishonesty later on in your relationship with God. You would never
enter into a relationship of any meaningful substance if you knew the person you
are having it with has the capacity to be dishonest. God won’t either. God
will tolerate a lot of our human character flaws, but the one thing that will
drive Him away from us the quickest is the character flaw of dishonesty.
There is a passage in
the Bible that many who are aware of it have questioned what it fully means. It
is found in Matthew 7:21-23. It reads:
“Not everyone who says to
Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of
My Father in heaven.
“Many will say to Me in
that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in
Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never
knew you; depart from Me, you who
practice
evil!'"
This is a most sobering thought: We can do things,
believing we are pleasing God, and be totally deceived. We must know what
evil is and what evil is not to remain free from practicing evil. We should
consider well WHO it was who gave the
red-letter
warning above.
Is being dishonest evil?
Is betraying someone's trust evil, or is it okay? One has to lie in one
way or another to betray someone. Lying is one of the most deceitful
means of betrayal one can practice, because it fosters distrust.
Perhaps this is best
understood in a marriage relationship with someone you love. You enter that
marriage believing that person can be trusted to not lie to you. Yet if that
person ends up lying to you, you begin to question your mate’s honesty, correct?
Especially if your mate has given his or her affections to another person!
‘If my mate tells one lie, what will stop him/her from telling another
lie?’ You have doubts, in other words, of just what kind of person you
married afterall.
Say your spouse promises
never to lie to you again. You have forgiven your spouse for lying to you the
first time, and now trust it will never happen again. Yet down the road, sadly,
let’s say it DOES happen again. From that point on, your relationship will
NEVER be as good as it could have been, simply because now your trust in
your spouse has for all practical purposes, been shattered. Your spouse has now
committed the offense of practicing lying. Now you have a much more
painful dilemma on your hands than the first time he or she lied, don’t you?
What now will keep your spouse from continuing this practice of lying in the
future to obtain selfish gain of some kind?
Only one thing. Your
spouse’s determination to be honest with you from then on out. Talk will be
cheap after that. Actions are what you’ll be monitoring from then on.
If you are willing to be
dishonest with a friend, chances are excellent you’ll do the same with God. If
you are willing to be dishonest with your employer, chances are excellent you’ll
do the same with God. If you are willing to be dishonest with your spouse,
chances are excellent you’ll do the same with God. You may not believe that’s
the case, but if you do, you’re wrong, I’m sorry to have to say.
God Wants You To Be
Totally HONEST With Him At All Times
If you are truly sincere
about wanting to find God, what you need to do just as quickly as possible is to
promise God that if He reveals Himself to you … you’ll promise Him you’ll be
honest, and MEAN IT. If you don’t mean it, that means you’re a liar at
heart, and He won’t waste His time with you.
Don’t take it personally
-- He just refuses to have spiritual intimacy with dishonest people who lie.
You wouldn’t, so why should He?
If you’re willing to
have a loving, eternally meaningful relationship with God, prepare yourself to
deal with Truth. Otherwise no matter what you try to do for God to get Him to
like you enough to have intimate relationship with you, you’ll forever remain
frustrated. He can create angels to have intimate relationship with that will
be honest with Him. Why would He want a dishonest creation like you or
me to
have intimate relationship with?
Maybe you’ve never
thought about it that much, but one of the main reasons you were placed on this planet was to
be tested by God, in a number of different ways actually. There has never been
any shortage of voices trying to tell us how to connect with God. But those who
will end up finding God, and get connected and stay connected to God are those
who will do everything necessary to zero in on ONE word in this statement
below, and above all else, purposing to place it higher in priority than any
other thing they place priority on in this life when building relationships:
“I am
the way, the truth, and the life.”
Care to guess which word
I’m referring to in the above quote? I’m quite confident you know which word
I'm referring to.
If you would like to
hear how I was finally able to connect with God, I’d love to share it with you.
My purpose is to help you avoid some of the
pitfalls and frustrations I encountered finding God. You can
read about it on this link:
If you would like to read
how God delivered Norm Rasmussen, the founder of Precious Testimonies,
from DOUBT that the Holy Bible can be trusted, you can click on the following
link:
http://www.precious-testimonies.com/Hope_Encouragement/a-e/biblemiracle.htm
A Special Message:
http://www.precious-testimonies.com/Exhortations/f-j/HelpingShareTheMessageOfTheCross.htm
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