The Key to God's Heart (11)

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FAITH(Chapter 11)He

has stressed again and again in all the scriptures that love is

absolutely essential to reach God, to know God, to understand God. Yet

on the equal footing, of equal importance, is the necessity for faith

because without faith, love is a volatile emotion that can sometimes

lead one astray. Not always but occasionally. Or it can lead to

disappointments or negative feelings. Faith in itself is not the entire

answer either. Love and faith go hand in hand, and that is the basis

for experiencing God. Love and faith play a very important role. They are the two wings

with which one can soar the heavens. Love on its own can make one

depressed or become disappointed which creates negative emotions, but

it is faith in Him and His infallibility, that one has made the mistake and not Him,

that actually corrects the matter, that balances one. The two of them,

faith and love, act as a counter balance for each other. One cannot

fully succeed or cannot fully attain the goal without both.Though, of course, love is the force that bolsters

faith as faith can falter, be shattered and destroyed, reduced to

rubble under the bombardment of unfulfilled desires. Though faith is

vital for spiritual progress, love alone holds the key to His heart. Faith is necessary. The faith

should be such that no matter what He tells you, you must accept it

without question. The total and complete faith that He

wishes you to cultivate no matter how things may appear or seem to be.

There are no rituals that bind, no fasts, duty, nothing but His word.

When He asks you to carry out something, do it without question. It is

not easy but with perseverance, it can be achieved. This is vital to

learn and practice. Having faith in God means the total acceptance of

His will in everything. Whatever He says. Whatever He does. Whatever He

does. Whatever He asks you to do. And it must be unquestionable. What

does blind faith mean? It means that you set aside all your experiences

and conclusions based on the mind and follow the inner God. Are we

ready to jump in and then learn to swim? Such faith and love is what He seeks of us. If we follow Him and allow Him to guide us, then no matter what happens,

we will be heading on the God ward path home. When He gives you any

instructions, advice or edict, it is necessary that enough faith is there

to implicitly follow His word, to bring it to fruition. Without the

yearning, without the faith and strength of character, nothing can be

achieved.We

all know the story of Moses and how the Israelites lived in the desert

for forty years on His grace and bounty alone. They wandered in the

desert with only the food provided by the manna sent from heaven and

the water

that miraculously came out of a rock cleft by Moses with his sacred

stick. Forty years they wandered and they learned to become totally

dependent for their survival on the Lord. It required a total letting

go to His grace. A one hundred percent trust. A complete trust in God

without deviation. It is what He seeks from us. This is the adventure

of waking up to the presence of God in your life. This is not just the

story of the scriptures. It is our own story.

We are born, we seek God but He is nowhere to be found. We seek

happiness that we know is ours by right but we look for it in the world

and it eludes us. Then, one blessed day, He reveals Himself to us. But

soon, He takes us out into the desert and we wander about, lost. It

will seem that whenever there is a crisis, He will wait until the last

moment before stepping in. He takes us to the precipice and even down

into the depths, and then, at the last moment, He raises us to the sky.

We become totally dependent on Him for everything, our food, shelter,

work, health, direction and our very lives. He then grants us

experiences to develop and strengthen our faith and love for Him. Then

finally, He fills us with Himself.Within each of us , there is a war being waged between the forces of right

and wrong. It is only when we turn to the Lord, when we seek Him out

and He comes to us, takes hold of the reins and guides us that there is

any hope of winning this inner war. It is faith alone that steadies the

mind; unshakable faith in the face of opposition. More important and absolutely

vital is faith in yourself, faith in your beliefs, and confidence in

what you can achieve and how you can achieve it. The understanding that

faith and acceptance of His will ultimately prevails. To have faith in

God, one must have self confidence, that is confidence in yourself. The

way to achieve this is to become aware of the constant nearness of God.It

is wherever you place your faith, dust you think then dust you are. God

you think then God you are. Always have complete faith in God who takes

care of everything. True greatness can only come from faith and love.

If you shut

the door, how can God be revealed? Where is the room for God to come

inside? Love is God. Live in love. Start the day with love, spend the

day with love, fill your day with love, and end the day with love. That

is

the way to God. Faith is but the acknowledgment of God in all His

abundance, all His goodness, His ever present, all powerful will. Love

and faith are forces that release the latent genius within each soul.

All is possible with love for, through it, you can tap the source of

sources.God

may well have something wonderful planned for you but if your faith

wavers or you entertain doubts, you can speed or delay His will. This

is a power that lies with all of us. The important point to recollect

is that doubt clashes with His will. If there are doubts, then there is

no possibility of fulfillment of His will. His will is accelerated and

speeded by your faith. It is slowed down and halted by your doubts. The

strength of your faith determines the strength of God's will. If you do

not entertain doubts, then whatever you wish for will be fulfilled. If

there is total positivity, then a miracle has to happen. The miracle

your desire must manifest. There is not even an iota of doubt in this.

But if there is any negativity, imbalance or doubt, then the process

takes much longer or not at all, so your desire may never materialize.Keep

in mind that if things do not work out the way God has told you they

would, or according to His indications, the fault probably lies with

you and not Him. Actually, it definitely is one's own. That is how one

must view matters. After all, when one travels this path and one

experience His presence, then blind trust in the divine is the only

option, the only solution. It is what must be cultivated. After all, it

is what we all expect and demand from each other. The child places

trust in the mother that she IS its mother. We all trust our parents to

do what is best for us. We trust that when we drive a car, we are going

to reach our destination safely; otherwise we would never enter a car.

We take a flight in the sure knowledge that we will disembark at the

other end. Trust me, have faith in me. I will. I can. If this is what

we expect, this is how we feel, then as God, He has a perfect right to

demand it, to insist on it. As the saying goes, complete trust in Him

never landed anyone into trouble.(From : THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART by R SAI) Visit : Sai Messages

: http://saimessages.blogspot.com/ Sai Divine Inspirations : http://saidivineinspirations.blogspot.com/ Love Is My Form : http://loveismyform.blogspot.com/ (for non-Sai members)

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