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Without Love, Nothing Would Matter.

If love didn’t exist, would anything matter? A complete lack of love is a state akin to spiritual death. The highest type of love is divine love, which incorporates the principle of immortality – literally endless life. We receive this great gift by praying earnestly to God for divine love to fill our soul. Divine love is experienced not just as an emotional or spiritual state – it is also a substance, a building block that eventually recreates us as a new divine soul. At that point, our soul shares a great deal in common with God’s soul, although we remain as finite beings and retain our individual identity.

Every time we think or act negatively, we suppress the light within our being and reduce our ability to give and receive love. So when we indulge in unloving thoughts and actions towards others, first and foremost, we harm ourselves. Expressing negativity makes our path back to God longer and more painful. When we feel these types of emotions, we should seek God’s protection and retreat into the sanctuary of the deepest part of our being where love exists and from where we can readily connect to God. That way, the energies we radiate will either be loving or neutral but never unloving.

This expression of the love inside us gives our lives great meaning and satisfaction, far more than habitually filling our lives with shallow distractions. We should practise stepping into God’s world of love daily so that we lead a life that we can look back on with no regrets.

Now’s The Day And Now’s The Hour.

As we develop our souls in divine love, we need to support the changes occurring at a soul level by refusing to indulge our material mind in thoughts that are contrary to the loving state we aspire to.

Since we have free will, God will not change the thoughts that we choose to have. Because our minds are strong, those thoughts can easily overpower the tender shoots of burgeoning love growing in our souls. Our thought habits, which are heavily influenced from birth by the often hostile and controlling environment around us, are our responsibility, not God’s. Since our patterns of thought become normalised, it can come as a shock to realise just how far from loving we can be at times. We may, for example, feel justified when we are intolerant of those we dislike – rather than feeling compassion for them as fallible human beings just like us.

We need to root out this harmful mental behaviour in order to support the path we’ve chosen. The battle against our mind’s ingrained habits can seem daunting. In my case, it was a long time before I properly took heed of this advice and consciously tried to curb the detrimental tendencies of my mind. I wish I had acted sooner. The words “now’s the day and now’s the hour” come to mind as I write this – a reminder to remain vigilant of our thoughts at all times until the soul finally comes into ascendancy over the mind.

In addition to divine love, we should pray for help in making wise choices in our thoughts and actions so they become compatible with our spiritual ambitions. We also need to reach out to those around us who may be unaware of divine love so that they too can find salvation from the pitfalls of a difficult human existence on earth.

The Vastness Of God.

How can we understand the vastness of God? It cannot be expressed meaningfully in words. It’s not surprising that we have to develop completely new soul perceptions before we can significantly increase our knowledge of God. These perceptions come as our core nature progresses in divine love.

Those who are content with a mere intellectual understanding of God, which of necessity can only be shallow, miss out on the most satisfying journey any of us can experience. True understanding of God comes about by becoming more like God in our basic nature. God is love, and so we must become love – specifically divine love, which is the essence of God’s own soul and incorporates divine consciousness in every drop that we receive.

Once we start receiving this love, we will begin to realise how narrow our view of reality was when it was experienced purely from our material mind’s perspective. We will see clearly that much of our life was shallow and illusory. Great courage is required to accept that the life we’ve invested in so heavily prior to this point was, in many ways, a fabrication created by a somewhat unguided, over-active and over-indulged mind. Along with any anguish we may feel at this stark realisation comes a great freedom and sense of truly knowing ourselves for the first time. Dear reader, no personal criticism is intended in this rather harsh assessment of our human nature – we are what we are, which is the result of millenia of human existence on this planet spent separated from God. What matters is the opportunity given to us to become as one with God in divine nature.

So, will we know the vastness of God through our newly acquired divine perceptions? Yes, our knowledge of God will expand exponentially as we grow in divine love. We’ll have an increasingly close personal relationship with God and receive much in the way of guidance and blessings. We’ll experience the infinite depth and breadth of God’s love. Much will be given that will never be available to those who choose the path of self-realisation rather than God-realisation. The divine journey will never end.