What does God mean to you? Who is God? Do you have a relationship with God? The word “God” has many different meanings for different people. God is often mentioned alongside religion, ‘Religion’ being another word that brings up so much for so many.
The word God for me in the past was tied in with religion, and I never liked religion in this life, as a child I was made to go to Sunday School while my parents stayed at home, and I remembered just never wanting to be there.
As I started to learn more about religion at school and in history class, I realised it was hypocritical – I saw it being about wars, conquering, bloodshed and rape, control, and very judgemental towards people personally. All of this never made sense to a deep part of me, and I thought I want no part of institutionalised religion.
From when I was very young, God was portrayed to me as someone who is almighty, someone who judges you, someone you have to look up to and worship. I have always been wary of anyone who is on a pedestal, by holding them as an authority over me without understanding why, it felt like I would be giving my power away, and in this instance giving my power away to someone that no one had answers about or seemed to know much about.
Deep inside I have always known we are all equal, and anything less than that is not true for me.
As I started to learn more about religion at school and in history class, I realised it was hypocritical – I saw it being about wars, conquering, bloodshed and rape, control, and very judgemental towards people personally. All of this never made sense to a deep part of me, and I thought I want no part of institutionalised religion.
From when I was very young, God was portrayed to me as someone who is almighty, someone who judges you, someone you have to look up to and worship. I have always been wary of anyone who is on a pedestal, by holding them as an authority over me without understanding why, it felt like I would be giving my power away, and in this instance giving my power away to someone that no one had answers about or seemed to know much about.
Deep inside I have always known we are all equal, and anything less than that is not true for me.
‘If you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God’
Corpus Hermeticum 11:20
Corpus Hermeticum 11:20
Clearly there is something greater than us humans, than life as it stands now. I always knew there was more to life and a divine or greater power, although I never knew exactly what that was. The place I could connect to this ‘greater energy or power’ was in nature.
I have always had a deep love of nature and how I feel when connected to nature.
Could nature simply be a reflection of the amazingness we come from, and could its purpose simply be to support us to return to who we truly are?
Do I have a relationship with God? The answer to this question has to be not really, and at the same time, yes to a degree, and reading this now I realise that I don’t often fully appreciate that I could have a deeply beautiful relationship with God without associating God with an Institutionalised religion.
What if God is love, and we too are love, only most of us have chosen to not live that love in full, and by building a relationship first with ourselves based on love, that we are building a relationship with God?
I have always had a deep love of nature and how I feel when connected to nature.
Could nature simply be a reflection of the amazingness we come from, and could its purpose simply be to support us to return to who we truly are?
Do I have a relationship with God? The answer to this question has to be not really, and at the same time, yes to a degree, and reading this now I realise that I don’t often fully appreciate that I could have a deeply beautiful relationship with God without associating God with an Institutionalised religion.
What if God is love, and we too are love, only most of us have chosen to not live that love in full, and by building a relationship first with ourselves based on love, that we are building a relationship with God?
And when you realise this unchangeable fact, that is, that God is energetically within and all around you, you will begin to religiously interact with it, for that is what the word religion truly means, a relationship with the Divine inner-you and hence with the light (God) that impulses forth that inner eternal Divineness outward for full expression of itself.”
Serge Benhayon
An Open Letter to Humanity, p 475
Serge Benhayon
An Open Letter to Humanity, p 475
What I would like to do is to develop a relationship with God and really get to know him.
Since I was young my connection with God has been through nature, and in more recent years also through symbolism.
Today I am building and deepening my love for myself, and this will in-turn support me to build a deeper relationship with my inner-essence and therefore my relationship with Divinity or God.
God is love and we too are that love – by living in a truly loving way we can embody love and be that love for all others.
Since I was young my connection with God has been through nature, and in more recent years also through symbolism.
Today I am building and deepening my love for myself, and this will in-turn support me to build a deeper relationship with my inner-essence and therefore my relationship with Divinity or God.
God is love and we too are that love – by living in a truly loving way we can embody love and be that love for all others.
