Living in Faith
The Tallest Order
Stephen Lau
The Tallest Order
Stephen Lau
Faith To Communicate With God
by
Stephen Lau
by
Stephen Lau
Many believe that God exists - but His existence is no more than the existence of the sun, the moon, and the planets. Few believe that God plays a pivotal role in their daily lives. Yet fewer believe that they can communicate with God. Indeed, to be able to communicate with God is another tallest order for a believer. Christians may pray, read God's Word, but can they really communicate with God? It is difficult, but not impossible.
"Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee." (Deuteronomy 4:36)
Communication with God requires living in fath, which is the tallest order in life. To communicate with God is to hear God's voice and to experience His presence, and hence the communication.
What is communication?
Communication is a two-way connection to bring about understanding.
Communication with God involves three major components.
"Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee." (Deuteronomy 4:36)
Communication with God requires living in fath, which is the tallest order in life. To communicate with God is to hear God's voice and to experience His presence, and hence the communication.
What is communication?
Communication is a two-way connection to bring about understanding.
Communication with God involves three major components.
| ˇ | When you pray to God, you are speaking to Him. As in any communication, you expect a response, a sign or at least some sort of acknowledgment. When you are not getting any, you need living in faith. |
| ˇ | When you read the Bible, you are searching for the truth about God's Word. You need living in faith to believe in what you read. |
| ˇ | When you meditate, you are trying to get closer to God, to connect to Him. You need living in faith to break through mental barriers to get into the state of subconsciousness to feel God's presence. |
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To communicate with God is difficult because God is infinite and we are finite. It requires living in faith, which requires us to believe in something abstract and intangible - it is the tallest order because it demands a belief in the almost impossible or improbable.
But the challenge of living in faith is that God wants you to grow and expand the limits of your ego, or to abandon self. It is like jumping off a cliff with a leap of faith - will God catch you, or will you be on your own?
Praying shows your sincerity to reach out to God. Reading the Scriptures demonstrates your passion for intellectual understanding of God. Meditating attests to your determination to communicate with God and your desire to experience His presence in your life.
Living in faith, you can experience the presence of God. Theoretically, there is within each of us a deep longing to return to God, because we are all made in His image. However, many of us may have wandered away from our Creator, just as the Israelites had wauntered in the wilderness for forty years.
Praying and reading God's Word show us the way back to God to fulfill the divine plan and the purpose of life, for which we were created.
"Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee." (St. Augustine)
But do not just seek God, you must find Him. Do not continue to search for Him: the search may be indefinite because God is infinite.
Many Christians may attend church services dutifully, participate diligently in church functions, read their Bible daily, and tithe generously. But seeking God is not the same as finding Him. Only when you find God, can you experience His presence.
"You can talk about God, and you can think about God, but that does not bring God into your presence." (Joel Goldsmith)
But where to find God? This is the burning question for many believers.
God is everywhere, because there is nothing that God is not. God is everywhere, and God is also within you.
"For in him we live, and move, and have our being." (Acts 17:28)
If faith tells you that God is within you, then the answers to everything in life are also within yourself.
"The Lord is with you, while ye be with him, and if ye seek him, he will be found of you." (II Chronicles 15:2)
To experience the presence of God, you must meditate.
"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do." (Christopher Reeve)
Maybe that little voice is the presence of God. Maybe you will hear that little voice during meditation when you shut off all the noise and clutter from your life.
Find God through meditation to experience His presence.
During meditation, you mind will journey from the outer life, which consists of the environment and your physical body, to the inner life, made up of your mind and spirit. Through deep meditation, your mind goes from one level of awareness or consciousness to another, until it reaches absolute pure consciousness, where you will experience the presence of God.
How do you meditate?
But the challenge of living in faith is that God wants you to grow and expand the limits of your ego, or to abandon self. It is like jumping off a cliff with a leap of faith - will God catch you, or will you be on your own?
Praying shows your sincerity to reach out to God. Reading the Scriptures demonstrates your passion for intellectual understanding of God. Meditating attests to your determination to communicate with God and your desire to experience His presence in your life.
Living in faith, you can experience the presence of God. Theoretically, there is within each of us a deep longing to return to God, because we are all made in His image. However, many of us may have wandered away from our Creator, just as the Israelites had wauntered in the wilderness for forty years.
Praying and reading God's Word show us the way back to God to fulfill the divine plan and the purpose of life, for which we were created.
"Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee." (St. Augustine)
But do not just seek God, you must find Him. Do not continue to search for Him: the search may be indefinite because God is infinite.
Many Christians may attend church services dutifully, participate diligently in church functions, read their Bible daily, and tithe generously. But seeking God is not the same as finding Him. Only when you find God, can you experience His presence.
"You can talk about God, and you can think about God, but that does not bring God into your presence." (Joel Goldsmith)
But where to find God? This is the burning question for many believers.
God is everywhere, because there is nothing that God is not. God is everywhere, and God is also within you.
"For in him we live, and move, and have our being." (Acts 17:28)
If faith tells you that God is within you, then the answers to everything in life are also within yourself.
"The Lord is with you, while ye be with him, and if ye seek him, he will be found of you." (II Chronicles 15:2)
To experience the presence of God, you must meditate.
"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do." (Christopher Reeve)
Maybe that little voice is the presence of God. Maybe you will hear that little voice during meditation when you shut off all the noise and clutter from your life.
Find God through meditation to experience His presence.
During meditation, you mind will journey from the outer life, which consists of the environment and your physical body, to the inner life, made up of your mind and spirit. Through deep meditation, your mind goes from one level of awareness or consciousness to another, until it reaches absolute pure consciousness, where you will experience the presence of God.
How do you meditate?
| ˇ | Sit comfortably. |
| ˇ | Begin with a prayer, expressing your wish to connect to God. |
| ˇ | Take a few deep breaths. Then breathe in and breathe out slowly and rhythmically through your nose. |
| ˇ | Relax your body, noticing the release of tension in each part of your body. |
| ˇ | Relax your conscious mind. If thoughts come to your mind, do not deliberately dismiss them; let them drift in and out. Instead, concentrate on your breathing. |
| ˇ | Let go. Give up. Give over to God. Do nothing. Do less than nothing. Let your subconsciousness go deeper and deeper into the silence of being. |
Alternatively, go to http://www.divinerevelation.org to get a copy of Dr. Shumsky's Meditation Audio CD with detailed instructions on how to do the do-nothing meditation. Dr. Shumsky is a celebrated spiritual expert, and her one-hour meditation CD is phenomenal.
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