How to EXPERIENCE GOD with you TODAY

"The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth."

Psalms 145:18, emphasis mine.

You want something.

You don't know what is is or why you want it.

You get glimpses of it every now and then:

In intensely beautiful music or art

In sunrises or sunsets

In silence

In the particles floating on sunrays through a window

In sex

In being high on drugs

In the buzz of alcohol

In a really good, long, intimate and transparent conversation

In a good book or movie.

In the eyes of a beautiful man or woman

In the smile of a baby at you while getting groceries

In being listened to and understood

In the crashing waves on a beach

In your conscience, intuition, and communion with the presence behind silence.

In the power of imagination and reason

In pure emotion

In the liberation of volition in skillful joyful action

But it's not any of these things, or really even in any of these things.

These are shadows of echoes, dreams of mirages.

It is not an it.

It is a Person in Relation and Union.

"Holy Spirit, please allow me the liberty of the imaginary in relation to Paul's inspiration."

"So be it, son of God.  I am with you.  Jesus is Lord.  Amen."

(What you are about to read is an adaptation, a personalization of scripture and revelation.  I, being one with Paul in spirit, by the Holy Spirit, speak as though I am him, and I address you as if you are the people of Athens mentioned in Acts 17, verses 16 and 24-28.)

"While I was waiting for them in to respond to my writings, I was greatly distressed to see that some of their minds were full of idols.  I then stood up in the meeting of the minds online and said: “Men and women who read my words! I see that in every way you are very spiritual. For as I walked around in your imaginations and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in imaginary temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men and women life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men and women, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men and women would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’"

God is not far from you right now, you, the one who is reading right now!

Perhaps you've never heard or read the word "GOD."  Or perhaps you are a member of one of these four groups:

1.  Those who believe in one Supreme Personality, Perfectly Good, Perfectly Powerful, Perfectly Wise, Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, Infinite, All Present, All knowing, All Loving Light and Truth.

2.  Those who believe in many gods, or that every thing and every one is God, part of God, or a god.
3.  Those who believe in no god or gods, who believe this world, the physical, visible, audible, and tangible, are the only real things.  There is no mind or will behind it all, no purpose, no origin, no destination.
4.  Those who say they simply "don't know," and feel as if no one really can know.

Which ever of these four you feel defines you, know that one of these things is true:

1. You experience THE ONE as He is, as He knows and names Himself.

2.  You experience THE ONE in creation and conscience, though you may call Him a name other than his name.  You rename Him after one or more of the things that give you a glimpse of him.  You name Him "Shadow of the Echo," or you call Him "The Dream of The Mirage."  In other words, you worship the thing instead of the Creator of the thing; the being instead of The Supreme Being, Creator of all beings. 

What you want is Him!

You crave Him!

You obsess over Him!

And you should!

In His presence alone is perfect happiness and neverending pleasure!!

He is literally better than the best sex, higher than the highest high, the buzziest buzz, the most inspired and inspirational, the most sensational!

He is who He is!!!

Undefinable!!! 

Unnameable and Untameable!!!

The Mystery of Intimacy, Ecstasy and Beauty!!!

GOD ALMIGHTY!!!

THE LORD JESUS!!!

THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!

You can experience Him right now!  He is already near you and has orchestrated your life for this very moment.  Indeed, every moment of every day of your life God designed for this purpose: FOR YOU TO REACH OUT FOR HIM AND FIND HIM ALREADY NEAR TO YOU!!!

HOW?

Call on Him!!!

Call on Him in absolute honesty, vulnerability, and transparency!!!

But to call on Him, you must know His name.  I will tell you the name of the one who cannnot be named, but can only name Himself--this is the name He gave Himself:  He is who He is!!!!

So, when you call on Him, this is what to call him:  The One who Is who He is.  Say something like this, but of course, in your own words:

"To The One WHO IS WHO HE IS, I speak to you alone!  I don't speak to a being of my own making or naming or defining!!  I come to you accepting you as you are, accepting that you are!!!  I will be myself with you right now!!!! Please answer me, and be yourself with me!!!!!"

The Supreme Person, the origin of every person, is indeed A PERSON.  What person craves negation!?  What person desires to be renamed or made out to be what they are not? 

So I stress to you, the one who wants to EXPERIENCE GOD TODAY, don't call upon an imaginary God of your own making, which is indeed an idol, fashioned by imaginary hands, placed in an imaginary temple of your mind. Let the ONE be the ONE.  And focus on being yourself before the ONE.  If you call on Him, indeed if you call on him in truth, you will experience him near you.

You should and must call on Him!  You want to do it, but must choose to do it!

To not do it is to die, or remain dead!  It is rejection, the rejection of Creator by creation!  It is also the rejection of your deepest and truest passion!!!  It is the rejection of your life's mission:  The knowledge and likeness of God!!!!

Refuse to think you "have time," or "need time to think."  What more is there to think about?  You've wanted this your whole conscious life.  My words express your words to yourself on lonely nights in your bed.  I say what you say to yourself.  Be honest with yourself!!!  Be honest with God!!!  And know that you very well may have no more time, and even if you did, to reject Him today places you on a path of rejection, a path you would choose to be on.  It sets your mind and heart in a direction that may be fixed BY YOU!  The more you receive the invitation of the Spirit of God and reject, the less respect you have for the invitation, and the Spirit, respecting your will, STOPS GIVING THE INVITATION, IN RESPECT TO YOUR OWN REJECTION OF THE INVITATION!!!

Choose to call on The One Who Is Who He Is today, even right now!!  If you do, He promises to be near you.  Choose to believe in Him!  Choose to call upon Him!!