God

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Homosexual

KEN

If, as some say, religion shou's a way to magic power over circumstance, then men under social or physical handicap need to seek it above all.

But if any one does seek, and find something, his experience is bound to be personal. Each man's relation with the Power is uniquely his. whether he comes upon it inside the organized church, or out. The church at best can be only a guide.

So the very most any man can say is, "This is how it was with me, when I looked for God. This is what happened".

Every such speaker is filtering God through his own little lenses. He can only feel humility when he says to another, "Would you be interested to look through them? Would you see what I see?"

man's love nature is his essence. And if some priest had ever shamed me into trying to cast that away, what shell of me would have been left, for seeking Whole Truth?

I know the many ways of quoting, "Deny thyself and follow Me". But let me match that with the Testament's words about the Salt that loses its savor. No man worth his salt would ever deny his heart and essence, in seeking a God to help him make the most of life. Indeed, all records agree in telling us that the only approach to God is through love, and never through the cold logic of our little 3-dimensional thought.

If, then, one's particular love nature were not acceptable to God, one would be damned entire. And by some decree the love element in a man could be destroyed, he would lack the one key for relating himself not only to God, but also to his tribe, his nation, and his neighbors.

whether The God I pray to knows my love to be quite as worthy as any other kind for offering to God or man. And if anyone challenge his Authority, I will do as the confident Jews of old: I will gladly call on my God, to pit His Power against any god-idea of the challenging Philistines. And we shall see who is the truly Living God, then and there.

This God of mine and of yours, if you want Him is perfectly at home in any Christian church-though some of the narrower Christians might not recognize Him. And I have no hesitancy in addressing Him before any Christian altar. The two commandments to be observed in seeking Him, there or anywhere else the simple injunctions to love are laid down clearly in the Christian Testament.

But I got little enough aid from the organized church, in learning many things I needed to learn.

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