GOD: In the room. In our bodies. (Part 2)

What’s the difference between being actually conscious of God’s presence and being actually conscious of the truth that He is present?

Think about that for a moment.

What is the difference between being actually conscious of the presence of germs, and being actually conscious of the truth of the possibility of germs?

I hate to put God and germs in the same thought.

But they are both invisible and deserving of our respect, though they are intangible.

With germs, we actually hope we don’t experience them, or the results of their presence.  We try to avoid being infected by them, so we do what we must to prevent infection. 

But how do we know we’ve succeeded?  By not getting sick?  In some ways.  But there are germs with us and in us that don’t make us sick.  Of course we could get microscopes and other instruments to detect them.  But how do we know that what we're seeing under a microscope is a germ? We trust scientists or experts, those who have studied and observed them.

We should do the same with God.

There are those who’ve gone before us who have experienced God directly, who lived in actual consciousness of God’s presence.  They tell us that God is with us and in us who believe in Christ, and everywhere at once, whether people believe in His presence or not.  Just as we act upon the knowledge of scientists and doctors who tell us there are germs we must protect ourselves against, whether we’ve experienced them or not, we should act upon the knowledge of those who know God, whether we’ve experienced Him as they have or not.