Do You Acquaintance God?

 31 December 18:00   Do You Acquaintance God?

     Connor, a man in his backward 40s, has accomplished aggregate he anytime anticipation he bare to feel blessed and secure. He owns a acknowledged business, has a admirable wife and two children, and a admirable home. Yet if you attending at him, he doesnt attending happy. He looks empty, with no faculty of action about him.

    His wife, Brianna. aswell has aggregate she anytime capital a husband, children, banking security, acknowledged plan and a admirable home. If you attending at her, you see a being abounding with acquaintance and vitality, affability and joy.

    What is the difference? Why are these two people, anniversary who accept the aforementioned alien things, so actual altered in their energy? The acknowledgment is that Brianna has a able affiliation with God while Connor has no airy affiliation at all.

    The best Ive formed as a counselor, the easier it has become for me to acquaint the aberration amid humans who understand and acquaintance God and humans who dont. It is the aberration amid Connor and Brianna. It is the aberration amid getting abounding from the central or inwardly empty.

    Its not that Connor doesnt wish to acquaintance God. He says he absolutely wants to. He sees the aberration amid him and Brianna and he says he wants what she has. He sees his parents as abandoned and he says he doesnt wish to end up like them, with no faculty of affection or purpose in their lives.

    Yet Connor does not acquaintance God, and the cause is simple: he places a college antecedence on accepting ascendancy over money, employees, what humans anticipate of him, his wife, and his accouchement than on getting a admiring animal being. He says he wants to be loving, and the times he is admiring he feels great, but it never lasts because his admiration to ascendancy is greater than his admiration to be loving. He is abashed if he is admiring to himself and others his business will suffer, he will accept beneath money, he will lose friends. His ego blood-soaked cocky tells him that if he is accessible and loving, he will be taken advantage of, and that is the endure affair he wants. So his primary ambition is to assure adjoin what he fears rather than to be loving.

    God is love, the spirit of love, the activity of love. That adulation is consistently actuality for us if we accessible our heart. Our affection opens automatically if our absorbed is to apprentice what is admiring to ourselves and others rather than assure adjoin what we abhorrence with our authoritative behavior. To understand God is to understand Love. To understand Adulation is to understand God.

    When Brianna looks at Connor with love, Connor feels abashed and turns away. If he opens to her love, he fears he will be accessible to getting hurt. Maybe she wont like what she sees if he is accessible and will adios him. Maybe she wants added than he wants to give. Maybe she just wants to blot the activity out of him like his mother did. Attention adjoin his fears is added important to him than getting admiring and administration adulation with Brianna. Brianna loves Connor but is generally abandoned with him because he is abashed to allotment adulation with her. Connor complains that he doesnt feel acceptable a lot of the time he feels empty. He avoids his blank with aliment and TV, which doesnt accompany him joy.

    Connor complains that he doesnt understand how to acquaintance God. I acquaint him its not about how, its about intent. If his centermost admiration is to be admiring rather than controlling, he will calmly and byitself acquaintance God. Its all about intent. Our absorbed is what we accept best over. Our absorbed governs how we live, who we accept to be, how we behave. Our absorbed to adulation and apprentice about adulation opens our affection to the acquaintance of God.

    If you feel empty, accede that it may be added important to you to ascendancy than to love. If you understand others who arise to be empty, accede that it may be added important to them to ascendancy than to love.

    Opening to adulation does not beggarly that we will be accessible to getting hurt, manipulated, taken advantage of. In fact, the adverse can happen: in experiencing God, we accept the acumen and backbone to understand what is acceptable or bad for us, what is appropriate or amiss for us. In aperture to God, we ascertain what is in our accomplished good. It is far safer than relying on our blood-soaked ego self. Aperture to the Adulation that is God through your absorbed to apprentice can accompany you the abysmal faculty of adequateness and assurance for which your affection and body accept consistently yearned.