What exactly is it you want from God?

This has been inspired by Steve’s article on Which part of Jesus do we want? which i turn was inspired by this Guardian article by Giles Frazer. Having been ill or below par for over a month now and writing this because my nose is blocked and I can’t sleep…when I lie down it feels lie I am being suffocated…I want the healing power . Giles Frazer, seems to be saying that what most people want from religion is the icons, they want the sustenance and not the challenges, the want the baby Jesus and the dead Jesus because they don’t challenge you to change who you are. They can make you emote in celebration or pity and pain, but they have become so much iconography and cliché. I mean easter, these days…its about chocolate.

It reminds me of the Quaker Meeting for worship, I am a member of, where another member about to be married to someone who was not a Quaker, asked them to come to meeting to experience the joy and sustenance she had gained, only to have him put off becuase he arrived at a very challenging meeting for worship, luckily not put off the marriage though.

I want to be healed, and I can hear God tell me…get more sleep, eat less sugar and fat, give up wheat, and I am replying couldn’t I just have a laying on of hands…oh and get me a big mac and frys on the way please.

Real spirituality, healing, religion, belief, understanding, challenges you to be changed by your experience and to change the world, Although Giles Frazer, uses the story of Jesus to underpin his argument, it doesn’t really worrk for me..the whole point of the story of jesus is it contains contradictions and has been overlayed on other beliefs (mithras is one), so the Apollo/Osiris story/Sun God style part of the story is very important.

My feeling is that we no longer link the two, like Quaker rejection of the lottery, which many do and see as harmless fun, we are stuck in the past. It is a pity that we cannot learn from that past, the plethora of ‘bootfairs’ on a Sunday in the UK, should have been set up in Church yards and church car parks, as soon as they could be, just as in medieval times markets were often set up as people left church.

The story of Jesus is a great blend, the icons of birth and death, and then the challenges, of healing the sick, giving to the poor, forgiving debt are also combined, with rather a lot of eating and drinking…loaves and fishes, wedding feasts, last suppers, water into wine and so on, oh and then as well as the political and the material there is the weirdly spiritual…walking on water, raising the dead, withering a tree, talking to the devil, casting out demons.

Which bit do you want…and God who Jesus is meant o embody on earth, Father Son and Holy spirit, which part of all that, or Buddha, Zoroaster, Mohammed, or another do you wish to follow as your path to the enlightenment and Godhead.

I like to say to myself something similar to what Jesse Duplantis said the other week, you may know your destiny, but do you know your destination, or as Rumi said God is found nowhere but in the human heart. I think to truly recognise God you have to know your own heart.

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