The Pursuit of God- The Gift of Having Nothing

Today i was in church and the priest brought up  amazing points about pursuing God and who God is. I can't remember which part in the bible it was it's a story about a woman who comes to God for help. Even the disciplines themselves did not want to help the woman, they treated her like an outsider and didn't consider her a child of God. God had more compassion than even people in the story. I think this is an important concept to get especially when we feel far away from God or that he doesn't love us. What separates us from understanding the immense degree of love that God has for us. Sure sin can be one answer, but the greater answer goes beyond that. It is living in the presence of God, knowing God, and having an intimiate enough relationship with God that we can experience a joy, love, and peace that are honestly the most satisfying feelings in our human exsistence . We live in two worlds .. the seen and the unseen. God does not dwell in things but in the heart and the soul, things of the unseen world. I am reading this book called the Pursuit of God by A.W Towzer. He makes clearer the lens in which we look at life. How to build a satisfying life and the veil which we all possess that prevents us from having it. I am not just on a philosophical hype about happiness. This is the truth i have known, experienced, and forgotten. We forget and lose focus on God because we get attached to these things, sometimes angry at God when we don't get what we want..

The cross is symbolic of the pain that people go through in life.  Only God can understand how deep the pain of being human runs, everytime ... all the time, you don't know what people are going through, God does.  So many times in life i have asked how can a God that loves us let us go through so much pain? Today at church the priest listed several reasons why we may feel like God rejects us . Like a wise Thai Chi master who rejects his student at first .. God rejects us ( not literally). He wants to see if we are serious about what we are doing. If faith was easy then everyone would have a strrong faith in God. So it begins a journey of perseverance.  letting the master you are dedicated and commited. Serveral things may get in the way, our attention is consumer by material things, relationships, and trials we are going through. We are going through a trial and angered because we don't understand, that is because we don't know God, nor does God reveal himself if we aren't pursuing. Certain material things or a relationship, these are all gifts that can be alll good, but go arye when we completley forget about our spiritual life. We must learn to give up our control and focus, sometimes the gift of having nothing makes it easier to know God better.  Once accepted Then the student and the master can train together more closely. He used the concept of perseverance thats how me must be in our pursuit toward God.

" At the cross you becken me , draw me gently to my knees. I am so lost for words. Lost in love. Sweetly broken,  holy surrender." -

" Love is a shelter in a raging storm. If we try to leave may God send angels to guard the door, love is not a fight, but it's something worth fighting for."

I feel as though God has been waiting on me all summer to make a move .. to pursue him more.  God must have something to say to me, because its evident he's been trying to catch my attention. How receptive are you, when God tells you to come closer? The divine whispers,  you must come closer to understand what it wants to tell you about your life.