I feel like I'm watching a movie.
Reading these posts seems to transform reality into a time and a land which exists partly in a haze of real and where am I now. Once you had a grip and understanding of who you were. Your life had purpose and you knew where you were headed. Now, for some, you seem to be drifting in an ocean with no direction hoping to wake up some morning on a beautiful and lush Island paradise.
So many of you seem like orphans huddled together around a fire, like street urchens in a Dickens novel. Your lives forever changed because of some disaster; unretrievable. Only despair, and a sense of great loss, a type of mourning and sadness which comes when we loose part of ourselves, like looking back on a happy youth, and good times, loves and infatuations, family outings or any number of those fond memories which now seem so far away and never to be again. Maybe like being told by your parents you have loved and trusted all of your life and they finally get up the nerve to tell you you weren't really theirs....you were adopted but they still loved you. A betrayal of monumental proportions.
Much of your lives were given over to and controled by a force which you trusted at one time but came to detest and deny. The hatred for this thing overwhelmed your thinking while escape was your only motivation. At one time you thought that you had found a certain truth which would help and guide you in all of your lifes challenges. Without wanting to look back you found a way to cut the invisable barb wire which held you. But once you found the dream of freedom you also realized you were alone...........Alone! but for these boards, a kind of life line and yet not quite real.
The questions still are there...Who am I now? What is there to believe in now? What is going to happen to me? Who will take me into there loving arms and comfort me in my day of need?
As I am writing this a beautiful melody is playing in the background ( Tchaikovsky). I wish I could somehow attach this to my post. After all I did say this is like a movie.
If you learned with certainty that you are the child of a loving GOD who really does care for you and has always had his arms out ready to embrace you and comfort you and that the pain and sorrow which envelops your life can be completely wiped away, would you want to get closer to his thrown and the light of truth which he willingly gives to all mankind.
I know, sounds like fine words, What's the catch. The God you believed in at one time has not changed. He is unchangeable. It is mans perceptions which makes him out to be something different than what he is. The way you reach him is still the same. And now that your mind and soul has become unclouded, and free from a tyranny of slavery, you have the ability to really demonstrate a true humility to HIM and reiceive the answers you are searching for. Don't look for the answers from man, look to GOD who only holds the truth and all things in HIS hands. The Bible is not false just because wicked people use it for there own purposes and designs. The Bible is still the word of GOD given through Courageous Men who were his prophets. Their suffering and sacrifices are real. The son of GOD is real and He will teach you all things. Prayer is the conduit whereby communication with HIM happens. And HE declares that HIS HOLY SPIRIT will reveal to you the truth of all things. BY coming to him as a child in FAITH and humility HE will answer you and You will no longer be lost. TRY IT.....and don't give up if the Red Sea doesn't open the first Time. The GOD of heaven wants you to learn of him through your humility so He can open the windows of heaven to pour out blessings upon you, you won't even be able to receive. The act of prayer is the act of one who is searching for GOD and HE hears all supplicants. The dogma man professes can only be confirmed by GOD. He will direct you to his representatives or they will come to you and you will know them by the gift of GOD, I testify to you. Your sincerity will guide you. Your faith is the strength of your soul. If you're strong in faith the answers will come quickly. The blessings will flow like the current of a great river and you will find your home at last.
QUANTUM