Daily Meditation: Sunday, September 27, 2009

As long as you haven’t learned to feed the fire in your …

09/27/2009

As long as you haven’t learned to feed the fire in your soul, there is no point in begging for the divine presence. Even if someone gives you this presence, you will lose it very quickly, for if you do not know how to sustain a fire within you, it will go out. You would like to receive the Deity just as Christians receive the host the priest gives them. But God is not in the host; each of us must prepare the divine state, earn it, win it and nourish it. The doctrine the church has taught its faithful does not always conform to divine laws. Why has the church appropriated the right to give God? It says, ‘Open your mouth. Through the blessing of the host, you receive the Deity from us.’ And that is how it keeps Christians lazy; it’s why so many of them remain dependent and weak. No one can ever give you God. It is up to you to find him, by making the effort every day to become conductors of his wisdom and love, and when he enters you, you will taste eternal life.