PARADOXICAL

WEEKLY FOOD FOR THE SOUL batch 139

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letter to a friend
who thinks he is an atheist
or does not really know
if he is one yet is heralding
and is proud of it

nobody can prove God exists
because God is of the heart
not of the mind and 'proof' is of the mind

the experience of God, being of the heart
is beyond intellectualization
beyond logic and the mind
the experience of God requires a 'leap'
from the intellectual to the spiritual

that is why God's existence
can never be proven to intellectuals
He can only be 'felt' through the heart

you can go through the labyrinth of logic
to the most intricate reasoning
but He will always be elusive to the mind
you may feel that you can lord it over the earth
with your neat logic and argumentation
that - ah He does not exist
because no one can prove it
or 'belief is not reality but imagination'
but i am sorry belief is so real to me

the bible scholar knows biblical history
to the last grain of data, the year, the writer,
the evolution of writings, the era, the upheavals
he can argue well, articulate well
this is all vanity, intellectual vanity
'vanity of vanities all things are vanity'
the scholar still needs to make a leap
to really 'know' God because
TO KNOW GOD MEANS
TO HEEL HIM IN YOUR HEART
NOT STUDY HIM IN YOUR MIND

that is why
TRUE WISDOM IS OF THE HEART
NOT OF THE MIND

once you find Him
throw your intellectual caution to the wind
because you have reached the eye of the storm
another dimension beyond the mind
beyond your imagination

in the experience of God
you will begin to understand
how He is invisibly hovering above you
as you wander through the vast desert

in your thirst
he will invisibly give you
safe passage to an oasis
you need no effort no maps
He will veer your tracks
because you are with Him
i know it is hard for you to understand this

it is my faith that forms my destiny
my destiny with Him and in Him

the most astute biblical scholar
he thinks with his mind
and has forgotten how the heart
can think better, farther, deeper

THE MIND COMES TO ITS REAL SENSES
WHEN IT LISTENS TO THE HEART

i feel your realm is cold and arid
but i am only guessing
i may be wrong
i really do not know
perhaps you have your brand of warmth
against the winter that descends upon us all
i too have my cold arid days
but the Lord is my warmth
against the severest blizzard

it is hard to reach out to you
because you have made up your mind
but not your heart
and i do believe you are missing so much
about life in your intellectual cycles

i write not to sway you to my perspective
rather i merely point out
the chasm that separates us
a chasm that only
a simple effortless 'leap' of the heart
can bridge

your friend
eastwind [x888]

posted by Resty Odon  # 6:40 PM