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How To Find God When You Need Urgent Help
You're at home alone. You've lost your job. In a week, the rent or mortgage is due, as well as the phone, electric, cable, car, and water bill. In other words, in a week you could lose everything!
Things are about as bad as they can get, short of physical affliction, loss of a precious relationship, or the death of a loved one.
Like most human beings who believe in God, you reach for divine help. You roll your eyes up to the ceiling and raise your arms and ask for a miracle to save you from the impending disaster.
You've got urgent questions. You'd like an immediate answer.
As you ask, "Why me, God?" you start to reflect on the past. You dwell on how you couldn't stand your job and walked out on it. You mull over how tired you were to find another job. You go deeper into doubt, despair, and self-loathing.
Suddenly, you do hear a voice, perhaps one inside your head, perhaps it's outside of you. However, it shows up, you know that it is God speaking.
This is what you hear. "When you look for me in the past, with its regrets, resentments, and reflections, you won't find me there. My name was not, is not, and never will be, 'I was.'"
Given this divine cue, you immediately correct yourself. However, soon enough, you start to worry about the future. What will the landlord or mortgage company do? Will they cut off your essential services or give you more time? Will they seize your car? And so on.
Once again, you hear the voice.
"When you look for me in the future, with its worries, wants, and wishes, you won't find me there. My name was not, is not, and will never be, 'I will be'"
"Where invisible God of all visible things can I find you?" you ask. "I need your help NOW!"
"NOW," echoes the voice, "is the operative word. Right now, you're sitting here. You're warm. You're clothed. You're sheltered. You're nourished. You've got everything you need right now. This is where you'll find me. My name was, is, and always will be,'I am.'"
Whenever you're upset about anything, the present is your only point of power.
Whether you conceive of God as within you or without, as personal or impersonal, as your highest expression or the universe beyond your personal self, now is where you can meet this consciousness of all that exists.
Now is the time to find God. Here is the place.
Grace can only come to you when you open up a channel through prayer, contemplation, or meditation. It can only be received here now.
The here and now is a very small space; too small to fit in both God and a problem. This is where you'll find God when you need urgent help.
About God
God is a deity in theistic and deistic religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism.Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995.
God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the many different conceptions of God. The most common among these include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologian philosophers, including Maimonides, Augustine of Hippo,Edwards, Paul. "God and the philosophers" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995. and Al-Ghazali,Platinga, Alvin. "God, Arguments for the Existence of," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 2000. respectively. Many notable medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God.
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Mayur Dixit wrote
What ever written above is just rubbish. Beleiving God is like living in an illusion. There is no God, its only the mind game. Stop relying on any such creture who does not exist.
Its me myself who can change my present, my future with my own do's and dont's. I become what I dream, Many times my dreams are beyond anyone's imagination, but they are my dreams, I have to cope up with my present problems, fight back, sometimes take a back step, but this is me and me only who will be doing all things. People show beleive in God because they are afraid of the circumstances of what they do, I too feel scared and worried for many a times I have lost, but I will prove my self these things cannot stop me, I will do become what I want and will get everything that I want. When I fail I have to admit that someone was better than me,I have to admit my thoughts did not reach that level and I did not so try for it, it was my own fault. I don't beleive in God means I don't find him responsible.
Posted July 06, 2009
mary wrote
iam a female and work in a hopis i do not have religen but have faith in god and jesus
i will go to church or chaple or any other house of god sometimes iget angry and feel sad
but all i want is peace inthe world and to treat other people the way i would treat them with kindness and respect
Posted July 06, 2009
uncamom
I really needed this . i just typed in God I need you and this came up. My son is going down a wrong path and I live in fear. Thanks this helped. even though it was about jobs it helped me
Posted June 19, 2009
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Joe wrote
I wish to pray for a job in acting. I am 46 and need work. I have made too many mistakes in my life about careers. Am low on money and need work. Thank you.
Posted March 01, 2009
