God formed the human being from the moist earth,earth that was made out of star dust, and God breathed His own breath within His craft, and placed the two of them in a garden of delight. There they ate the luscious fruits of enchanting trees, savored the pungent aromas of fecund blossoms, delighted in a symphony of richly multicolored birds, bathed in refreshing spring waters and lay down to rest peacefully upon a mattress of soft moss beneath the open sky. They played and delighted, rejoiced and celebrated. They delighted in God’s creation and He delighted in them, and in that way, the Creator was found within His creation, the Infinite Light within the finite bounds it had emanated. The sparks of holiness that had fallen at the outset of Creation were pulled towards the light in harmony, as metallic dust is pulled towards a magnet. Heaven and earth, spirit and matter, soul and body were at peace.
And then Eve said, “I feel.”Happiness had been stung; it had swollen and the wound festered. No longer open and focused to contain the luminance from beyond, like a leaf in the autumn it shriveled and fell earthward. There was now no smile without a tinge of sadness, no sweet song without bitterness, no delight without pain. Now there was no human emotion, no experience of life left uncontaminated by the primordial snake, that ubiquitous sense of “I am.”
“I feel happiness, I feel pleasure.”
“I taste, I enjoy. I love and yes, I fear.”
Happiness was poisoned by “I am”, or the focus of self, rather than God.
“And they both opened their eyes and saw that they were naked.” The garden was no longer. In its place was a jungle of confusion, the voices of a thousand dissonant emotions all screaming at once.
“Where are you, Adam?” God cried out. “Why can I no longer find you?”As chaos had entered human life, so it had spread throughout the creation. Like an ineptly crushed walnut, the sparks of primal light that were to be gathered were now crushed helplessly into the fragments of their own shells. The entire cosmos had become a mayhem of darkness and light.
“Because I felt my nakedness,” Adam called back. “I felt that I am here, and I was ashamed.”
“Adam,” God cried again, “you have tasted of the fruit of knowing (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil), of feeling that which is good and that which is evil, of being who you are as though I am not there. You have left My garden of innocent delight and entered into the chaos of your own creation. And so, you can no longer find me there, for all you find is your own self.”
God said:
“So now you must bend down to work the earth from which you were taken; go deep down into each and every emotion and experience of life to pick up the pieces and rebuild them as they once were. You must recreate the human being; you must recreate your world.”
But God knew this might happen. Because God knows all possibilities of how we might choose. God had a plan for humanity in case this happened. The plan of saving humanity. The plan of Salvation.
So God sent Jesus to earth to live amongst humanity. And He knew later that Humanity would read about Jesus, and read about other writings in their own Search for God. God wants us. God doesn't abandon humanity. Humanity abandons God many times. They get caught up in the form of religion, and demand their own interpretations are the right ones, but forget to talk to God each and every day themselves, and forget to let God Himself lead the way. God knows we must change focus sometimes for these fleshly vessels to continue. And there are no walls that can seperate God from anywhere, or from us. But it's humanity that gets caught up of the chaos and cares of this world. And why it is so important to take time out and focus on God.
In the New Testament, we have been taught how to fix this problem. Jesus tried to teach us all this. But no one got it fully. No one understood what He was trying to teach completely. This world is a classroom in which God teaches us. We live here, learn, touch, experience both good and evil. And while we exist here, our Spiritual Bodies are in these fleshly bodies as well, until the fleshly bodies wear out. Then it releases the Spiritual Body back to God.
But we are Spiritual beings having a human experience. It is our thoughts that can seperate us from God, and our thoughts that many times can seperate us from one another as well.
The Apostle Peter called the fleshly body a "Tent". What do you do in a tent? Camp out in it, right? Our Spiritual bodies camp out in our fleshly bodies while we are here on earth. Predestined and assigned to be here on this day, in this time.
How do we connect with God? All we have to do is believe God is and talk to God every day. Talk to God. Ask Him questions, and look for the answers. You will find them. And remember, it's not God's fault that people make bad choices or that people do bad things. We must have the freedom to make choices in order to learn. That is why we are here in this world. Don't give up on God, ever. God never gives up on us! As for me and mine, we belong to God. :-)
In the Bible, the book of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15, verses 44 through 52. Nothing can seperate us from the Love of God. He loves us and wants us. To be spiritually minded and to pray and talk to God is life. To be carnally minded, it seperates us from God. Because God is Spirit and must be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth. Jesus even said so. The first book of John in the Bible, Chapter 4, verse 23. So it is thinking on the carnal things that seperates us from God.
Take time every single day, take the time to spend time with God. He is our Family, too. We need Him. And He Loves Us. Do you ever feel afraid? Talk to God. Do you ever feel alone? Talk to God. There is nothing in Heaven and On Earth that God can't fix. We just have to look for His answers. We are here in this world to do the fixing of the world. And remember to forgive. People love the best they know how. It may not be what we need or what we want, but people love the best they know how. And all of us are still learning. Humanity does make mistakes. We learn from those mistakes hopefully. If we don't, those lessons will continue to be brought around back to us until we learn those lessons we are to learn.
One day at a time, one step at a time. We have to first take the time to talk to God and figure out how to do that, each of us. We are all here for a reason and a purpose. No matter how great or how small, all of us, all of our contributions matter to God. Focus on the good, the positive and the constructive. We can do this! Humanity is finally getting it....we are suppose to create this world and contribute to this planet while we are here. What's stopping us in humanity as a whole? What can we do to resolve the problems of this time? Never give up!
In the Bible, the book of Romans, Chapter 8, verses 8 through 39.
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