Getting To Know God Better 31

How do you trust God when it really looks like there is just no heavenly intervention or participation in your current situation?

You don't. Oh, your surprised at that? Quit trying to be something you are not. If you are feeling like God is not on the scene, you need to be true to yourself and acknowledge that you aren't currently trusting God right now. If you are thinking that acting like you are trusting God, to keep up the facade, is working, you will be greatly disappointed.

It is in your everyday real-ness with God that true relationship ensues. God is above all the fray, the din, the facades, the acting. God recognizes when you are down, depressed, feeling lonely, feeling abandoned, crushed or disillusioned. God made you. Every great thing about you and every fault is known to God. You can't say or do anything to make God angry at you or to make God think you are wonderful in every way. You were created, not self enlivened.

What God wants from all of us is to be real. When you believe with all your heart you should shout it out and let everyone know.  And even though when you have no faith at all, you might not shout it out on the rooftops, you needn't fake it either.  You were designed with emotions. Those emotions, just as important as your skills were designed by God for the purpose of co-creating your life together. You and God, not only co-habitate, "God in you, the hope of glory," you co-create your life with God. Ignoring who you are or what you feel does not make you faithful and strong, it makes you foolish and pliable. The only hope is to be real with God. Get to know God better and be open with God about your current condition, about the depth of your faith or the lack thereof, about the inner man's leading, what's really inside the depth of your soul. You are wonderfully made As Is.

Quit trying to climb the ladder that leads to religious Nirvana. There is no ladder. God is right next to your side and lives within you. Everything you do is a lateral move. You were already created and you are sustained to co-create life with
God. God is not like any of the people you know. God understands you and loves you right now, as you are, in your liveliest spurts of faith as well as in your deepest despair. You can fake people, but you can't fake God, because God is in you. Seek higher ground, aspire to be great, reach for the sky, but understand clearly that God loves you right now, just as you are.