My power to save increases as your power to understand My Salvation increases. -- "God Calling"
I chanced upon that sentence once, and it set my sights a tish higher. It was at a time when I was nattering my mentor as to why I needed to study the same literature over and over and still over again. And there it was, my answer.
That was proof to me that God does indeed listen in on our conversations, does hear our questions and does answer them in his own way. Truly, my mentor had explained and explained well and true, I just refused to "get" it. Then, at the exactly right time for me, I "chanced upon" the answer...and I got it.
To paraphrase the old saying about when all we have is a hammer, our entire world looks like a nail, it is true that when all we seek is still more spiritual growth, all that happens to us is of a spiritual nature. And there it is. The seeking alone upgrades our understanding.
Whenever less-than-wonderful happens in my life today, when it comes looking like "Oh no, Mr. Bill," I remind me that this, too, is God calling. I don't always remember in the instant, but I am inevitably brought back to it by the nature of life itself...meaning, it'll continue to look like crap until I upgrade my attitude. Which is little enough to do, who's kidding whom?
Go to God for God, and that is all.
Thank you.
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