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Re: Anyone Talk to God Lately?
DM, no one can convince you of God's providence or personal attention. You must experience it for yourself.
And He isn't a candy store. It's a relationship with give and take. He doesn't say "yes" to every prayer--although sometimes He does. Trusting God takes conscious choice and effort, and it's rewarding. In fact, I remember a scripture that says He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
I don't recall it saying He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek out what He can DO for them. There's a difference between pursuing God, cultivating a relationship with the Creator, just for the sake of knowing Him, and pursuing a relationship with God just so one can have the potential fringe benefits.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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