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How tangible can an invisible God really be? -Part 2

So, today, we continue our discussion on the tangibility of an invisible God.

We established the fact that being invisible does not equate to God's non-existence.

Today, our discussion will center around the power of experience in making God tangible. Back to the mom example. Though i was physically seperated from my mom, my love for her is still very much going strong because of my fond memories of her. Of her caring for me when i was sick. Of her cooking dinner and waiting for the family to come home. Of her guilding me when i was down. Of her staying up to wait for me to come home when i return late. This form of love and intimacy by experience is definitely not a result of proximity. (I.e it does not dilute with physical seperation)

Drawing parallels back to God, our physical seperation from God does not stop us from loving him. That is one big reason why believers can so easily make sense out of an invisible God being tangible - this is because they could tap on the times they had a personal experience with God. It is something that when non believers look at it from the outside, it just does not make sense because they have no such experience to tap upon to be fully convinced of God's tangibility.

So what "experience" am i actually talking about? Where and how can we experience such love that we can fall back on and say we have experienced God's tangible love despite our physical seperation. Let me list them out now.

1) Praying in the Spirit - Tongues is a very real form of experiening God.
2) Answered Prayers/ Signs and wonders.
3) The bible.
4) His community.

I'll touch on them in detail in part 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this series.


You realise that these are things that only believers will fully understand? These things cannot be more real than they already are. They not only touch on meeting your physical love, but your emotional, mental and spiritual love as well. So how than can we say that the love don't exist and we can't "feel" God's love? I'll elaborate more about this in their respective posts.

So the next time you feel that God is very far, fall back on these experiences and ask the Devil to stop putting these thoughts into your mind.

We have to go beyond the idea of "Have faith! i think God is infront of me" to reach a stage of "I have no choice but to be compelled to believe that all the facts, happenings and my experiences point towards the working and the presence of a real, living and tangible God.

God is not interested in playing hide and seek with us. He is not interested in hiding from us either. In fact he is love. He yearns to fellowship with us. This is His promise to us.

7"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
~ Matthew 7:7-8 ~
Regards,
jie hui

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