Most people hardly believe in the existence of God. We only ‘follow, follow’ to many churches, mosques and places of worship as others do just to make sure ‘we do the right thing’. Some go to churches as one fellow once told me ‘for my church to bury me’. This may look or sound bizarre but we have many reasons why people actually go to places of worship but hardly do people visit these places out of love for God. Hence most of these places of worship have long become social centers for people to interact and show off their riches every Sunday. From Monday to Friday, God can wait. There are no holds barred, anything goes as much as the individual can seek for forgiveness on Sunday. And this is why Nigeria has remained the way it is. People do not believe or know God. For if they did, with the number of churches and mosques in Nigeria, It would be paradise. But as we can well see, Nigeria is yet to be paradise.
So what is the problem, if Nigeria had this number of churches, prophets, imams, and several competing ‘men of God’, how come Nigeria is so violence-ridden? If God is a God of love, how come this love is not demonstrated in Nigeria of today? If we claim to love God so much in Nigeria how come that love is not manifested in our thoughts, words, actions, and feelings? Is it possible for most of us to believe in God and yet not know God?
Those who believe in God do not know God. For belief in anything bothers on the threshold of ignorance. If anybody therefore believes in God, that individual is yet to experience God. For the experience of God leads to an understanding of God and finally, a knowledge of God. Eventually the individual learns to make God a reality in his or her life.
How can an individual know God then, one may ask?
Any individual that wishes to know God must first aspire to know himself as Soul. For man is Soul, that aspect that is created in the image and likeness of God. Soul encapsulated in the Human being, when seen with the spiritual eyes shines like a thousand suns put together. For Soul is the splendor of God manifested. For Soul exists because God wills it. Soul is therefore created out of Divine Love. But this Soul wears a HU-man body to enable It partake of life in the lower heavens of God, including our dear earth. When Soul therefore wears a female body It is called a woman. But in a male body, It is called man. Thus man and woman are two sides of the same coin. Both are Soul, created in the image and likeness of God. The only difference in any man or woman is our level of this realization. It is because of the lack of this spiritual realization or understanding that makes man to kneel down and be begging and praying to God. But in ignorance, man is actually praying to himself!
For Soul is created out of the Holy Spirit. In other words, Soul is Holy Spirit Individualized. All the attributes of God, omnipotence, Omniscient and Omnipresent, are all present in Soul. But when enfolded by the Human body, the attention of Soul is then fastened on the earthly plane and prosperity. He now feels deprivation. Out of these deprivations, he cries out to God that is within himself for help. But God cannot change anything because the power has already been given to man as Soul. So what man needs to do is to first and foremost understand himself as Soul. Then he would understand that man has no deprivations for he is a Co-Creator. Man is does a mini-God clothed in rags. But this, he does not know.
Every night, when man goes to bed, whether he realizes it or not, he has dropped the HU-man body and has journeyed into the heavens of God. Sometimes, he finds himself in the first heaven, sometimes in second, third or fourth. But wherever, he journeys to, on his return he calls his experiences dreams. In ignorance, he has not realized that the purpose of sleep is not rest but for him to have the realization that the people he visits in his dream worlds are real. This is why some of us meet our late relatives in the dream world and they look younger. Why, because the lifecycle in the first heaven is longer than our own hundred years of earth lifetime. So when you encounter your late dear ones they look younger.
But when man wakes up, instead of him trying to understand his dreams to understand himself, he sometimes ‘binds’ his dreams and throws them away as information from the devil. If man does not understand his dreams how can he understand the instructions coming from God. Every dream experience has a spiritual value and cannot be wished away. The first place to understand oneself is therefore through our dreams. For this is the place where we start to understand the creation of God. For if God has concluded creation, why do man pray to God to do his bidding? If God concluded creation in seven days and rested can man force God to create new situations? For every possible situations have been programmed by God and all thoughts, words and actions, including our feelings have been programmed in such a way that whatever a man (or woman) soweth, that shall he reap! Even highly respected ‘men of God’ also display this level of ignorance by praying top command the Holy Spirit to do their will, how about the will of God?
What man needs to do is to learn the will of God, align his own will with this will of God in all situations and eventually graduate to become a channel for God. For if a man does not know the will of God, how does he act in any situation? The key lies in man knowing the will of God in every situation and acting accordingly.
The next question then is how can man understand the will of God?
There is a sound that roars within every Human being. When man blocks his two ears with his forefingers, he would hear this sound reverberating within himself. This sound is the sound of God, the sound of HU. This is the sound of the Holy Spirit talking to man, guiding man and providing succor, moment by moment. But when the attention of man is fastened on politics, prosperity, television, and others, how can he hear this voice of God? When man sleeps at night too his attention is on prosperity, prosperity and prosperity, so how can he hear God in his dreams?
So to understand this will of God, man needs to echo this sound within himself as a reply to that audible life stream within himself. Man needs to sing the HU and imitate the sound within himself and God shall reply him in his dreams. Man does not need to beg God for anything, for God knows all. God knows the next thought in man’s mind and therefore man should only learn God’s will and obey them at all times.
TOWARDS SPIRITUAL FREEDOM
By Tuborki Dauyemie
