EXPERIENCING GOD

By | August 2, 2012

Many know God. They can explain almost everything about Him based on the Bible and learning from others. But only a few have experienced the true God in the real sense of His existence in our life.
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People know God in many ways. Actually, He is the center of debate of most Christian sect and non-Christian religion. It seems everybody knows something about Him but few has actually experienced Him in their life. The truth about this is so simple. God, Christ, and all the prophets taught us love and respect to all mankind and creation, but these people who proclaim that they knew God as their savior and their God, doesn’t possess the love and respect to people with other beliefs. As Christ forgives those who crucified Him, His self-proclaimed believers hated and maligned those who opposes their own interpretation of God’s teaching in the Bible because of personal and self motivated intention.
The true believer of God imitates God. He lives within the simple teaching of God, nothing less, nothing more. So basic and so simple is having love in your heart. Not just to those who love us but most especially to those who persecuted us. God conquers man not by fighting them but through forgiving them of their sins and loving them. The proof of the matter is the Vatican which is the seat of power of majority of Christian belief. The Vatican is seated in the heart of Rome, the state or city of the same people who condemned and crucified Christ. This is a clear evidence of triumph over hatred and sin; a clear example of bowing to God’s power and humbling of a state over God’s power. By doing so, Rome survived the many trials a man can endure. Rome maintains its status as one of the best city in the world by bowing to the power of God. Its main attraction is the Vatican itself.
Men who possess power and knowledge usually forget God, the universe, and the people around them. They tend to think of themselves as demi-gods; that with the struck of their hand, everything is achievable. They think that whatever they aspire and desire must come into reality. Only to find out in one dramatic trial in life that one has nothing even if he has everything in life. And, on the other hand, true believers experience God in everything and everything is possible even if he possess nothing in life.
Man will never know the true God while they are in the peak of their life. They forget that someone is more powerful than them. They thought that everything is within their control and everything is possible. But people never learn from history. Even the greatest king like David was powerless in one of the trials he experienced during his relationship with Bathsheba. Only by being humble and bowing to God that David got the second chance and blessing of God.

EXPERIENCE WITH GOD:
By fate and destiny this young man gets all his success in life with miracle or luck. He never strives that hard like his contemporaries yet he gains more in life compared to them. For sure, if he just worked more, then his success must be way beyond imagination. But time and again, like all the man who experience success in this world, he forgot God and left Him behind in his life. He feels the power that wealth brings. He feels that his achievements in life can give him more power through politics. Connections were all in proper places for a complete victory come election time. He completed the mastery of success in all fronts. What he says is a law that must be followed among his followers. All his wishes must come into reality by the exact moment he wishes. He is a master of his own right, in his own turf. Everything is perfect except God was in the sideline. He is now the center of everything and God is now just a symbol of faith in his life.
Then, the greatest trial of his life happened. His father was killed while still in his prime. No ailment, with lots of dreams and aspiration, only to be killed with one struck of another man’s hatred and vengeance not to his father but for another man. It was a case of mistaken identity; being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The successful man brought all his money to buy the life of his father. He brought all his weapons and ammunition to take revenge with his own hand. He called all the connection he knows in the government and the underworld for a massive manhunt and eventually vengeance. But all of them have no power with this trial. His father is already dead when he arrived. Money cannot do anything to buy the soul of his father. Life is gone and the idea that money can buy life diminished. The second option and plan was revenge. Using all the power to get the killer went into futility. Though many possible suspects were picked-up and forced to admit the crime, witnesses to the crime say they are not. Three days have passed and no clear indication that the crime will be resolved. With all the resources he had, the results were still negative and they were still looking into the blank wall.
On the night of the third day, the man succumbed to the thought that getting the killer before the scheduled interment which is three more days to go is next to impossible. Then, with all humility, he now asked for God’s mercy and intervention on his trial. He now remembered God and asked for forgiveness for forgetting Him while everything is fine and asked for His intervention in getting the criminal. He talked sincerely and surrendered to God until there were no more tears to shed on. Then he went back to the wake of his father and after several hours, he received a call from the police station informing him that the true killer, positively identified by witnesses, had surrendered. The power of God works wonder and almost spontaneously works as a miracle. When he asked the killer why he surrendered, he said that he heard a powerful voice that frightened him telling him that he must admit his fault and misdeed. He was so frightened that he immediately went to the police station to submit himself for the killing he did. The police said, “nakonsensiya daw”. But the man knew that it was the voice of God, powerful and everything must come into reality.
Since then, the lesson of the incident was learned and never forgotten. Money and power is nothing. There are things within man’s control and only to these things man’s power is possible. But best and greatest things in life are beyond our control. Here, man has no power over it but God has all the power to make things possible. And the most recent lesson that man learned is when God is put in front of one’s life…. all things are possible right from the start and life will be easy if God carries you in this battle called LIFE. And the greatest evidence of God’s presence on a man’s life is humility, respect, and overflowing love to fellow man.