Subject: Why I Believe
Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 2:42 PM
N.,
Good to hear from you! You must be home today.
If I had to summarize why I believe that God exists, I would have to
express it as a "dawning intuitive perception". I believe that God
exists because I can intuitively sense his presence.
I use the adjective "Dawning" because only gradually does the
combined impact of experience, sense perception, and growing awareness of one's
surroundings begin to create the space where one has the time and the inclination to
actually STOP and LISTEN to what is going on in their life. The busy materialist has neither the time nor the desire to stop
and smell the
roses nor ponder existence, and the old pillars of the community are too set in
their ways and desirous of comfort and security to want to rock the boat.
In other words, critical mass has to be achieved before ignition can occur
and one gets that "spark", that desire to seek the kingdom of
heaven. Now why do some get the "spark" to seek while others do not? I
believe it
is God who calls us, not the other way around. One must be receptive, and often it is
harsh or painful experience that ripens us and grants us the humility to
STOP and LISTEN to the "Call".
I use the adjective "intuitive" because this "belief" goes beyond material
sense perception and the logic and reason which are based upon the 5
senses. Certainly intuition requires that reason be applied, like a radio requires
tuning to the proper station before music can be received, but intuition
goes beyond reason. Reason and logic based upon materialistic concepts can
never prove God's existence. Materialistic science can only reveal the dead
mechanism of nature (the form or vehicle), not the animating essence.
I use the term perception, because this "Belief" is based upon a
direct perceiving of "something" greater, "something" which
is the cause and source of all. This perceiving comes via the faculty of intuition which
gives one new eyes with which to see. I see the hand of God, written upon the face
of nature. Although at my stage this "seeing" is pretty murky, more
like catching a wiff of something good while walking in a fog. I'm following my
intuitive nose. :-)
By listening to the true spiritual intuition, one begins to intuitively perceive God and Spirit in all of life, and
therefore this
"Belief" cannot be shaken, for it depends not upon the "authority" of a book, or
external "thing", but upon the dawning intuitive perception that the true
authority is God, and that his "Book" is written upon the face of nature.
When one develops the ability to read it, their "belief" becomes experienced
"fact".
Now, how one makes themselves more receptive to this intuition which is
really the voice of God within us, is another topic - and one which I would be
glad to discuss.
