Can we really live on a diet of one sort of experience of God? Is this a breeding ground for a spritual straight jacket? It would seem that the books that we read, seek to tell us the answer. Could this eventually snare us in a very comfortable trap?
I know that it would appear to be risky trying different things, that ultimately I could end up being decieved. I guess that is why I have the plumbline of the "word of truth". I find it a very envigorating and exciting process to try knew things.
I was reading a book by a Senior Jesuit Priest who had spent much of his time in India. He was talking about "living in the moment" and saying that using all our senses to be in touch with where we are is very important. How my back feels against the chair, what is it like to have my feet on the the floor and so forth. This provides a grounding so I know where and how I am in the present. This seems to me to be important to totally experience the fullness of God. Is not God not called the great 'I AM'? If I am not as fully in his presence as I can be, being aware of all my faculties, how can I begin to move towards completeness in Him.
Philippians 1:6,9-10
being confident of this that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ.
I shall take some risks in my contemplation by opening my senses and awareness, and not be completely lost in "western tradition". Rather I will seek to acknowledge what my fellow Christians may have discovered. Truth is truth no matter where it comes from!
Hopefully by handling the real thing well, I will be able to discern the counterfeit better.
I hold to the promise
Taste and see that the Lord is good:
blessed is the man who takes refuge in him
Psalm 34:8
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