How do you meet God? Sounds like a rhetorical question. How do you meet someone you can’t identify or say you know? How do you meet God, especially as a human, if you don’t have a mental picture of Him or can’t recognize His Beinghood from the exact natural order of things?
And yet, we possess a crisp awareness of a transcendent manifest presence in this present state of time. Beyond the typical conformance to religion and mythological representations of deities, self-evident truths of divinity will surely reveal the Godship to you if you keep an aware mind.
I love them that love me, and those that seek me early shall find me. – Proverbs 8:17.
With that truism established, how then do you meet a hidden-in-plain-sight God in a discernible way, so much so that you would no longer have to seek Him before you find Him?
Here is what I can tell you. God is everywhere, in all things, and at all times. God is in humans, in nature, in animals, in seasons, in elements, in objects, in immateriality, in space, out of space: in so many diverse ways.
Note, however, that you won’t find God boldly imprinted on the substance of things by merely observing them for the fun of it. But, when “…ye shall seek me, and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” – Jeremiah 29:13, you will assuredly begin to see not only the beauty of God but the realness of God in all that is of Him that you set your mind on.
How do I meet God? I meet God when I read. And not just the Bible, but all manner of books. The book, Les Miserables [by Victor Hugo], for one, is a book I remember practically seeing God in reading motions. There are a few other surreal experiences, not limited to the reading of a book or religious practices that I can’t fully recollect.
God is everywhere, in all things, and at all times. God is in humans, in nature, in animals, in seasons, in elements, in objects, in immateriality, in space, out of space: in so many diverse ways
But I find Him more when I read and write, or write and read. Conscious reflection, of course, sets the dialogue in motion. The instance I can’t forget so soon is what happened while reading Anthony Robbin’s Awaken The Giant Within.
Now, on April 24th, I had a satori; an enlightenment on self, which led me to write this opening thought “In my darkroom, I emit light. I am a light-bearer.” Though the actual note for the day was not quite in tune with the opening thought, I penned it down anyway.
And, after reading Anthony Robbin’s 378-page book till the very last page, here’s what or Who I met: “Till then, remember to expect miracles…because you are one. Be a bearer of the light and a force for good. I now pass the torch on to you. Share your gifts; share your passion. And may God bless you.”
Just a chance crossing of paths, huh? Lol.
