“Recipe to Believe” Blog #196
Does every day seem to be getting harder?
Where can I find “instant help to believe”?
How come I don’t feel closer to God?
The times when I don’t feel close to God are periods of dryness. Is it because there
appears to be no joy in my life? I must be aware of “the illusion of the secular world”. So I
begin a new spiritual searching and remembering. I am remembering how important it is
to “keep on keeping on”! For It’s these periods when one is most challenged, more
frustrated and looking for a place to feel at peace.
I remind myself to count on prayer. Instantly I can ask Jesus, “Help me now!”
For it is in prayer Jesus keeps me close to him. No matter what, WHEN I can find quiet
solitude, I can feel more at peace.
Years ago I was conversing with a priest and expressing the feelings I very often had, “hard
to even get up and go to church, so why bother?” I told him, “you probably think I am a
sinful person for saying something like that, yet it’s hard for me even to find a quiet place
to pray!” Thinking I was bearing my soul to him, he just smiled and said, “that is the whole
purpose of Keep on Keeping on!” Some days its important to just go through the moves
and keep doing what you are doing - why? Because “it is In the routine of doing
something good, that the good will continue to happen in your life”. This made sense. I
am reminded that some of the most famous people in the world who are renowned
believers in Christ were former atheists. They felt so alone and yet still kept on keeping on,
searching for that spiritual piece that was missing from their lives.
When I accept the fact Christianity gives me so much purpose for living, it is in the
believing that Jesus Christ IS there for me that makes me want to believe. This keeps me
centered. More and more each day I actually look forward to my quiet time in prayer. This
is where HE hears me. Now all my reasons for wanting to live are centered around the
actual Light of Jesus Christ. Reflecting on the fact that Jesus Christ was actually human,
gives me better insight into believing HE knows what is going on in my head. He
disciplined himself all the days of his life living on earth. Having honest courage to “Walk
the Talk”, knowing friends would turn on him. He kept on keeping on. Each and every day,
means to carve time out for private contemplative prayers.
What I see, hear and accept into my life depends a great deal on where I am standing in
life. What DO I believe in? Who ARE my friends? What DO I search up on the internet?
What actually makes up my character of who I am?
Maturing and “Good Living” happens when I choose to pray at any time each cay and
FOLLOW THRU with this. I become a “good person” when I follow through with a good moral
inventory of myself and decide to live a “Truth-filled life”. I can’t just think about being
moral, I must try to be moral and live a moral life. I can’t possibly believe Jesus is knocking
down my door to open it, when He has given me free will to choose whatever I want.
Although I believe I have free will, I MUST SEEK JESUS OUT FOR CHANGE TO HAPPEN. Each of
us is given freedom to “believe whatever we want to”. IF WE WANT TO COOK SOMETHING,
SPECIAL WE PREPARE THE RECIPE. Internally I can’t just think about Jesus, I have to seek him
out! That being said, if a person does not make a choice to believe and live in “goodness,
then that person is DIVIDED from goodness and easily slips into darkness.
Not to believe? This is where so many people are aligned with irrational thinking. Then the
believer of “Nothingness” comes in darkness with fear and isolated sadness. There most
certainly has to be a “Recipe to Believe which becomes a moral decision.
Can I take time out of my busy day to believe in prayer?
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