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God in the Present Moment.

 Society is slowly drifting away from living in the present moment, which is a shame because God can be only found in the present moment. When we begin to lose the ability to cultivate things like love, kindness and compassion, we lose other skills that reinforce conditions of the heart that create inner joy and happiness and also the ability to experience God. This is far from a pantheistic world view, but it is a worldview that supports faith and living in the Lord’s presence. When we forget how to live simply, our thoughts become constructed around our material things, and the ability to hold God in our thoughts becomes extremely difficult to achieve. 


Repentance begins when we are able to see how we are living and change our thinking which changes our behaviour and the course of our lives. God is a spirit and He is love, therefore we must prepare our spirits to experience God’s love. The more humanity changes it’s focus outwards to material things, and what pleases our bodies and not God, the greater the disconnection we will feel from our Creator, until we learn to reconnect our souls to the source of our Salvation that exists beyond this creation. 


God makes Himself known throughout His Creation, “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” (Romans 1:18-20) 


God gives us things to enjoy, but we need to be ready for the things God gives us, but God must come first. It’s impossible to enjoy the blessings of God if that is all we want from Him. God desires that we freely love Him, our eternity depends on this truth. If we are unwilling to love God now, we won’t be getting a second chance after we die to love Him. If we seek God now, we can find Him now, but there is nothing in the Bible that says we can seek Him in the afterlife. However God does promise a blessed afterlife for those who have been born again now. This is Mike.


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