Thursday, April 29, 2010

Move Towards God

Ever feel like God is so far away? I know that we all think, "God where are you?" at times. We feel like we have been left alone and somehow God must not love us, because if God did we would not feel like this. When we feel this way we need to use it has a warning bell, an alarm, a trigger that we must not be acting or thinking in ways that match us up with God's spirit. We must stop and take inventory of what we may have been worried about, angry about, scared about, and change our perspective.

Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.
Philippians 4:6-9
Worries can be our alarm bell that it is time to rejoin God in spirit. How? Fill your mind and meditate on being a peaceful person, a loving person, on what you have, on what you are thankful for, on what is beautiful and good. When we do this we rejoin God, we rejoin Spirit and then we can relax, settle down, because we get a sense of everything working together - harmony. Some notes (circumstances) by themselves sound really bad. However, when you place those notes with other notes, the result is a beautiful harmony.
So today move towards God. Allow what you are concern, worried, scared, angry about to move you toward God, not away from God. All too often we use those feelings to act out some behavior that is not good for us or others in our lives, we do not live in harmony, but torn up and tied up in knots inside. Work on turning those things into prayer and meditations that lead you toward God, to think like God on what is good and beautiful.
Namaste'

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