He knows what we are thinking because He is in every cell of our body, including our brain. As I shared in a previous post, The Image of God, God has made life with a cellular basis because that is how His perfect form is. In the sacred process of life-giving whereby He creates all beings, He attaches Himself to that being in that process, on a level so infinitely small as yet to be undetectable to human understanding, yet so invasive that we cannot ever escape from Him, our Creator.
This is why dreams and daydreams and aha! moments and intentions and intuition tell us God’s Will. It is the immanence of God in us at work, in these moments that move us. He is transcendent at all times too, yes, out there. But He is always in here as well. As Rick Warren says so eloquently in The Purpose Driven Life, God is constantly watching us-our every nuance-in every moment to see how we think, how we feel, and how we respond to events in our lives! He is also feeling us, knowing us, and guiding us from within. I find that so profound. I don’t know about you, but knowing this makes a huge difference in how I actually behave!
But it is God in Us that is our ever surveillant Master, but also our dependable safety net. He tailors our lives to His everlasting assessment of us, if we but learn to hear Him and listen to Him. This is living in His will for us, and living coram Deo, with God, in everything we do.
Years ago, I read a heart-wrenching account of a young woman lost at sea on a sailboat that had gotten caught in a hurricane somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Based on a true story, this woman’s fiancee had apparently been lost overboard when the tumultuous storm tore him off the chains he had tied around himself and the helm, to anchor him. Realizing that they would not be able to run away from the storm or go around it, he had sent her below where it was safer, while he stayed up top to do any navigation he could. Down below, her body got thrown around, and she became unconscious for 24 hours. When she returned to the deck afterward, her fiancee was gone, and she was alone and adrift on the open sea.
She describes how she heard a voice in her head giving her commands which ended up helping her navigate to the coast of Hawaii, and saving her life. Commands like, “Open that can and eat it.” The commands were from somewhere inside her head, she knew, but were not from her. I do not recall her being a Christian or being a believer, or saying the voice was God, as I was reading her book. But now I know it was God speaking to her. Because that is how He sounds to me too. It was nothing short of a miracle how, with nothing but star reckoning, she was able to sail herself to the island of Hawaii in the great expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over a month or more period of time. And that she did not starve of hunger or thirst on the way.
God is like that in our head. He feels our aches and pains in our bodies. We don’t really have to tell Him or whine to Him about what ails us, though He is gracious when we do. He understands that life is pain. He sent Jesus to us knowing that life is pain. He doesn’t want us to always feel pain, yet He knows that we will suffer whilst here on earth, because of man’s inherent sinful nature, from the very Beginning.
But we can also feel joy and happiness and hope. That is the message of the Gospel. That is what I want to share with others. Life is pain, but life everlasting can be bliss with God. We can have bliss here if we allow God to blossom within us and take over our every cell! Open your understanding and know He is there, inside you, waiting for you to open your heart and mind and body fully to Him.
God Bless~
Mary
~Song of Mary~ 