Getting To Know God Better 30

What have you done to get to know God better?

You are in charge of this issue; not your pastor, rabbi, Sunday School teacher, and especially not your Priest. These men or women are seeking and finding just like you, but most of the time their search for the hidden Gems of magnificence that propels your faith from barely hanging on to excited to be with God is stymied by denominational polity/dogma.  For your pastor, rabbi, priest or anyone else, including yourself, to make forward progress they/you will have to apply your God-given co-creating power and draw closer to God.

If you are not familiar with the term co-creating with God it is probably because religions have tried diligently to keep everyone on the same playing field, releasing a kind of generic teaching that keeps everyone at odds with God. Kind of like having a baseball team with all first base players. It is easier to manage the lemming-like behavior of the parishioners if everyone is strained through watered-down teaching and powerless leadership, promoting obligation and duty, but not promoting self-learning, unlearning or God-thinking.

Personally I think your pastor would be delighted to see someone reach higher and draw closer to God, but the parliamentary procedures of the church board will eventually ferret out any serious spiritual Gem finding person attempting to be like Christ and brand them as a goofball or heretic or simple minded or simply ask them to leave. 

I hope you can say without a doubt that your understanding of God is better than "I believe in intelligent design".  Recently I had an in depth discussion with someone who acknowledges that there is intelligent design behind creation, but will not acknowledge that the intelligent designer is God. In this person's mind there does not need to be a God to believe that there is intelligent design. Wow!!!
OK, so you don't want to say the word God, but you don't have any problem with intelligent designer? There was much discussion about the intelligent design idea and the main reason that this person believes that there is an intelligent designer is because we have eyes. OK, good a reason as any to start with. I mentioned that we do have eyes that see, but we also have spiritual eyes that see. I mentioned that the eyes in our head are tangible and give us recognition of our surroundings and that spiritual eyes give us recognition of the intangible world.

When I have a discussion like this I don't have to be right. I am not always right. I do not have all the answers. What I believe I have confirmed with my eyes and my spiritual eyes, otherwise it is still in the undecided category. I don't blindly believe anything, neither do I reject everything that I cannot see with my eyes. I do believe that the balanced soul has a good understanding of both the physical eyes and the spiritual eyes. 

Bottom line; the best way to get anyone even mildly interested in Christianity is to get them to ask themselves questions. You telling them anything goes into their God-filter. They not only don't really hear you, in their mind they already have built their concept of God or non-god. You would serve your family well to be a little mysterious, subtle, sometimes even silent on the issue. With this new generation of non-believers, up in your face Bible-thumping might make you feel good, but you will not win this generation over with that method. Even more so, this generation wants better, more defined and conclusive information than before. If you show all your cards in the first deal, there isn't any reason for someone to ask pertinent questions about your hand. If someone sees your hand they don't really have anything to ask questions about.