An Endless Quest for Spiritual Truth: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality. Eric Chifunda
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The more self-discipline you have in the ways of God without fear, the more of the spirit of God becomes an active part in your life. So, stay disciplined, seize the moment, rearrange your life in an uplifting manner and you will stay connected with the essence of God on a daily basis.
Getting the Truth from Divine Spirit
In the outer we have certain human wants we seek so our lives are fulfilled, so we believe. We have concerns, fears, questions, that dog our lives. So, in seeking guidance from God, we ask with the backdrop of these underlying human wants, fears, passions, and anxieties. Therefore our quest for answers from God has built in expectations colored by the need to rid ourselves of these fears, or fulfill certain immediate human wants, understandably so. So that when answers come to us through dreams or our outer life, our perception is often influenced by our expectations of what we want. When they come in a way that does not seem to relate to our current condition directly, we don’t recognize them so we disregard them and look the other way.
So, truth remains elusive and always unavailable to us and our endless questions appear to go unanswered. To get the truth, therefore, we should not expect anything, since God knows what we need better than we know at our limited mind level.
To get answers from God, it helps to stay open without expectations of how the answer will come. The attitude of expecting nothing yet expecting whatever divine spirit gives us is the best way to open ourselves to recognizing and receiving answers from God when they come.
Listening More to the Voice of Divine Spirit
Your assignment today is listening more to the voice of Divine Spirit. The more you listen, the more you can hear God’s voice, and the more you know what guidance is coming from Divine Spirit. The more you can do what is needed to be done.
That itself is practicing the law of economy. Such actions, so in tune with the Divine Spirit, can help keep you connected with the Divine Spirit. You are in effect making God a reality in your day to day life.
So keep listening to that inner subtle voice of God. Till you reach a level where you don’t do conscious effortful listening, but the voice of God is now heard effortlessly and naturally because your inner ears are trained. Our life becomes highly spiritual as we live more by the spiritual laws and within the spiritual laws.
With expanded awareness, we can hear more and clearer. Consequently, we can live our lives better. This is what learning to live in God is. Simply by learning to listen to the voice of God and following through with our actions. This does not mean you will always hear the voice the way you may expect it. God will communicate with you in its own way, on its own terms, through its own channels, sometimes subtle and covertly and other times overtly. Learning how to listen to God does not mean you will not make mistakes; you will, because making mistakes is part of growing. God may withhold something from you so you can learn by experience.
Loving Life
Love is what makes you special as Soul. With this realization you will be filled with joy, beauty, inner peace and a profound sense of good will. You will begin to love life more because you see more beauty, more good, more love, more connectedness, more integration than before the realization dawned. It is to one’s benefit to continually look to God for love. For love comes from God through all of us although expressed in varying degrees and ways to others depending on the nature of our relationship.
Realize that all living forms are created by God. Hence through loving God’s creations, we get to begin to love God. Because each one is the same spark of God, it’s an integral true part of God, God as Divine Spirit in action. This realization should help you change your attitude toward others. With this changed loving attitude, you are able to love God more. This is expressed through loving others, its creations, shown by the way you relate and treat them.
HOW CAN ONE LOVE GOD DAILY?
To love God to the fullest extent, one must totally submit to IT daily in order to re-gain the attained spiritual state. But the task for us is to learn how to weave this commitment minute by minute until it becomes effortless and organic. The key lies in one’s ability to let go of all life. In letting go of all life, we are allowing God to step in. It sounds easy in theory, but its application can be challenging.
Think about it this way, when you let go of all things, only the things that are natural and beneficial to us spiritually stay in our lives, if anything, they come closer to us. This is so because the clutter of the unwanted material has been let go thereby creating room for what is needed. Life speeds up; life becomes spiritually abundant because every minute becomes transformed into moments spent in eternity, closer to God, in God’s arms.
The Power of Love
Love is what you need in order to have some measure of understanding about the inner workings of God. Love is what makes you become aware of who you are as Soul. Love does not stop you from engaging in life in a more passionate way. Love enhances your participation in life as it opens new avenues for greater and more adventuresome experiences.
Love heals wounds at the physical, emotional, or mental level, which may cause instability in one’s life. Love is the key to an abundant life. Abundant, not necessarily in the material sense, but more importantly, in the spiritual sense. Spiritual is that consisting of wisdom, patience, kindness, respect, fairness, compassion, sense of sacrifice, and courage.
All these put together and made an active part of one’s daily life makes for a remarkable spiritual human being. For love makes all things remarkable. Love in its Divine form has the power to transform one to an awakened spiritual individual, pulsating with love, connected to the essence of God. With pure love, one walks this earth while the heart lives in a joyous heavenly state with God above, making one an integrated spiritual human whole imbued with love, blessed by love, embraced by love and guided by love. So learn to cultivate this Divine love and your life shall be lifted beyond words.
Non-attached Love
To love God, is to have love. Love in this case meaning nonattached higher form of love that doesn’t demand anything in return. Love that gives, gives, and keeps on giving. However, for it to be properly expressed, one must be selective. One must use discriminative powers to wisely give it where needed. Because it must be expressed, right action must be taken to manifest it. And action can take any form, such as simply listening to someone, helping someone financially, helping someone out of trouble.
There are numerous varied manifestations of higher love and their common denominator is in their truthfulness, selflessness underscored by a sense of nonattachment by the person giving out love.
To do a job well brings out qualities of excellence fueled by love. With love, the quality of the outcome of the deed becomes heightened. With love as the motivating factor, you draw in God’s loving presence. Who better