Recently, I have been praying to God to teach me to love Him more. It has however occured to me that I cannot love someone I do not know. So perhaps I need to pray and actively seek to get to know God more.
As I watched today’s #Spirit Video, where Oprah and her guests, try to define who God is to them and how they found Him, I realised that I have never actually tried to describe God
http://Yes, every christian uses the typical ‘christainese’ language. God is mighty, awesome, supernatural, holy, kind, loving, sweet, big, ………but who is He to you. What does He, feel, smell, taste and look like to you. Even as i type this i struggle with the appropriate methaphor.
I love Iyanla’s description. God is everything and I never found Him because He had always been there. Nothing could be more true. But I also feel like God is more than everything. He is in the quiet, in the mountains, in the hills and in my heart. Sometimes I feel like He is in me, sometimes like He is watching me and at other times like He is far away. He feels like peace, other times He feels like fire. Sometimes He hugs me, soooo tight and I cry and at other times I just want to touch Him but I can barely feel the wind of Him. Some days He is on my mind, other days He reminds me to think about Him. He is in the little things. Like the minutest of things and He does things that remind me of His supremacy. Sometimes, I wonder what he thinks of me. if he is happy, frustrated or upset. Sometimes, I want to hear Him and then at other times He sends a whistle in my spirit. Sometimes, I think he is like the clouds, soft and fluffy and then i rememebr what it feels like when a plane cuts through a big cloud, and I get a little scared.
God is certainly difficult to describe. But maybe thats because our human minds are just incapable of reaching Him. Maybe our spirits hear Him and that is sufficient. Or maybe we need to try harder, to know Him and not just the things He can do for us. Maybe that is when we can see/hear/taste or even feel Him a little better.
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