Being in God's LoveTo say with all that we have, think, feel, and are, "God exists" is the most world-shattering statement that a human being can make.. Beacuse when God exists, all that is flows from God. However, as soon as I say "God exists", my existence no longer can remain in the centre, because the essence of the knowledge of God reveals my own existence as deriving its total being from God's. That is the true conversion experience.. I suddenly or slowly find my own existence revealed to me in and through the knowledge of God. Then it becomes real for me that I can love myself and my neighbour only because God has loved me first... The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence but the answer that my existence itself is not the centre. Once I "know" God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can only desire one thing: to be in that love. "Being" anywhere else, then, is shown to be illusory and eventually lethal. - iGracias!
Thoughts: I had an epiphany of what it really means to be a Christian.. it's really not so much about living a life that is worthy of the calling of Christ - of course that is important, but that is derived from truly deeply knowing God. Not just a cognitive understanding that I'm created.. but with every fibre of my being and soul that understands that every breath I take is of Him and that I am His beloved.. oh but what does it mean to know God in His depth of love? It must enabled by the cross of Christ that has reconciled me to God, that I can have such safe experiences of God without fear that I'm condemned for my every sinful thought that passes through my mind. That freedom to not have to try to control things in my life, but relinquish control to God who exists in me. But first I need to truly know and experience God's love more and more to somewhat have that faith to completely surrender all..
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