Of course God intervenes regularly (Law of mercy, miracles, 1)

My God, can I ask you please?

I used to believe that all that happened was Your will.
Later on I started to believe in reincarnation and I was thinking that everything what was happening to man was his own fault.
Now I have understood from You that much of what is happening follows Your will but that much of life happens because of your laws as well. We are also part of the evolutionary laws and so things happen sometimes which are not meant to be. Then of course the spiritual world is ready for help but meanwhile it still has happened to us! Actually coincidence or bad luck, so to speak.

So now my struggle. You are almighty so all happens according to plan.

You are bound to Your own (for example evolutionary) laws so if a child dies from cancer, it may just be bad luck, weak genes, etc.

But in the world there are also plenty of stories in which the spiritual world appears to intervene and in which man experiences something inexplicable. I recall, for example, a baby that has fallen three high out of the window and turns to be fine. Or Saul beaten from his horse and suddenly becoming a follower of Christ. Or my piano teacher falling from a high staircase, frontally, carrying heavy bags, and suddenly feeling two hands under her armpits, lifting  her up safely and putting her downstairs.

Well, now I do not know anymore, when miracles do happen and why, even though almost nobody believes that anymore.

But You’ll know for sure what this is all about!

My son, I know what this is all about. You are not the only one who is struggling with it. Is this not the old story of man and his suffering? One wonders why is this happening to me?

What has God planned for?
What does God allow?
When does God intervene in accordance with particular insights and special laws?
I’ll go into these three scenarios.

1. Know that God has predestined a lot.
And always it is fair, necessary, useful, inevitable. God does not do this out of arbitrariness, but out of wisdom. And even if man complains and sighs and doesn’t wants this at all, he will once acknowledge that it was the best. So far so good.

2. Know that God also allows a lot.

What does that mean for heaven’s sake, if God is allowing something? If God allows something, does this imply God does not want it? Yes indeed, God does not want it. In one of the blogs is mentioned the example of someone who gets a tummy tumour because he was drinking too much coffee. God does not want to give him a tummy tumour, so he does not have to sigh: "It's God's will," because it's not. God's laws are working, and they will eventually bring the good man to insights. So it will be fine. And if it appears to be a terminal cancer, some genes are leading to this, then only God's laws are working, not God's will. Why would God cause to a mother a terminal cancer if she has to take care of her children? God sees that horrible suffering as well. And God does not want it either. If the Muslims say Inshallah, it's not always like that. Life on earth is full of danger, evolution knows hard laws, human life is not really safe. But this is for sure, during and at the end of this path full of adventures, God will collect this man with all the love that is to be forgiven in the cosmos.

3. Know that God regularly intervenes according to particular insights and special laws.

Now comes the confusing and exciting part: sometimes God intervenes against  the laws of the earth, against the laws of evolution, against the physical laws, because then another law is working: the law of mercy, and that is a higher and stronger law. That is why I call it a special law, because this law is applied less often to the earth than the laws you know. But the stories about it are numerous. Call it miracles. call it inexplicable. Many people deny the existence of these events. Or give them a strange explanation afterwards. Or forget about what has happened. But it's very simple. This is about a higher law.

And I can simply explain the background of miracles. A miracle is done to a human being if that person deserves it (so to speak non-believers as well), if that person has prayed a lot or if that person has a great faith. Otherwise not. And let man trust God It has a reason for a miracle!

And examples of miracles will be presented the next blogs to show the mercy of God and to give hope to mankind.

My blessings to you all

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How do I come closer to You (Ape of God, 4)

The old story of religions that you have to choose between good and evil, between the narrow road and the wide road, between God and the devil, is not the solution. I do not think that’s appropriate now.

Everything is all right what a man does because he wants it, because he chooses it, because it’s on his way, because he cannot do anything else. And the consequences of his actions will be felt automatically, sometimes quite quickly visible. So whether it was good or bad, bad for his inner self or not, whether he is letting another person down or not, everything will become clear sooner or later.

So the advice is not that man must choose between good and evil or between God and the devil, because these are the traditional suggestions of religions.  Even a bit old fashioned. In this time of freedom and education and healthy individualism, the spiritual world stimulates a third way. God's advice is that man must do what his heart imparts to him, what he likes, what he thinks to be attractive, what is fascinating him, for there is his way, there his life will be fulfilled, there his destiny will be visible, there is he going to make his mistakes, there he is going to acquire experience, there his big life insights will come true, nowhere else. Too many people in early days have been forcedly influenced by norms and values from ruling morals, and so creating a lot of sorrow, repressing many talent and abolishing many life experiences.

The third way is the way of the heart, even if the heart draws into wrong directions and inclinations. Everything eventually becomes clear because everything is done entirely in a system of God's laws. So how can it go wrong in the long run? Because in evil deeds the consequences are included which lead to insight and change and eventually to the right choices. Evil is not for the sake of evil but for the sake of the good.

Therefore, today, one chooses no longer between good and evil but for the own individual heart. And that is all right. In this way one comes closer to God than by forced and unnatural goodness.

My blessings to you all

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Man determines his path, not God (Fate, 2)

I read this sentence in a book by Jane Roberts * " The future is in no way predetermined on basic levels. This does not mean that the future cannot be predicted sometimes, for in practical terms you will often continue with certain lines of probability which can be seen ‘ahead of time’."  It seems very contradictory with God knowing everything and having the destiny of man in Its hands. Would You like to comment on this?

My son, because of a recent experience in life you're really fascinated by this, is it not? I really love to comment on this. It concerns an issue, very important for mankind, namely the destiny of man and the will of God. And the question why one person is experiencing the most terrible things, and the other person is being in luck throughout life.

Since the allegorical fall of Lucifer, former King of angels and supreme ruler in the heavenly spheres, and since then in the eyes of man, Satan and ruler of darkness, this topic is relevant. Why since then? Because God then decided that the image of God on earth, man, should get free will and could bring about his own destiny, with all its consequences. Man may bring his own destiny, may follow his own free will and will make his own choices, become ruler in his own universe, follow his own path. And so it happened. Lucifer is still indignant that such a former ape was given by God more potential and future possibilities than what would ever be possible for other ranges of creatures, the angels. And so it is, still.

Man is at a fundamental level, the maker of his own destiny, master of his own universe. And this truth is much to the annoyance of many ministers of religion, is not understood by many loving men having an eye for earthly suffering.

Oh earthly suffering, so often misunderstood and wrongly interpreted.

Earthly suffering caused by the accidents of terrestrial evolution, by the conscious choices for the ego by human beings, for the lusts, for ephemeral happiness at the expense of others. Earthly suffering, so often caused by ill will, earthly misfortune and supported with a heavenly patience.

Earthly suffering, as often the result of the Earth's evolution and also regularly a situation of being on the wrong place and living in the wrong time, is not necessarily willed by God, but still happening in the gardens of God. Earthly suffering as often not intended by God’s will, but always subject to God’s laws, making this one thing always done: how horrible this suffering will be in magnitude and intensity, in its effects on man, it will always be subject to the one beautiful law of God: "the consequences of evil in the good sense are a thousand times bigger than the evil itself."

My blessings to you all

 
*Jane Roberts, The nature of personal reality, page 282

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God's mills are grinding slowly, but the mills of mankind are grinding even more slowly

This came up some time ago. Was it Your’s?

Certainly it was Mine’s.

The Dutch say this.
But the mills of mankind are grinding even slower.
You all are God's hands on earth.
And if you do not want or do not can or do not see anything, God can only wait.
Or if your eyes only can be opened through difficulty and crisis and problems, God can only wait.
Therefore the mills of God are grinding slowly.
Because those of mankind are setting the pace.

But actually this phrase is referring to something else, namely there is a time for everything.

And God is realizing this better than mankind.
Therefore man is forcing things.
And therefore God is never forcing things.
It is a matter of discretion.
And that's good, for God has more insight than man. That keeps us all busy.

My blessings to you all

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Vaccinations against God's will ?

Would you like to comment on yes or no vaccination of children against diseases? In the Netherlands under strict Protestants a little measles epidemic has broken out. In the Dutch newspaper Trouw (June 15th, 2013) stood a interview with a family whose children aren’t  vaccinated against anything. Actually I think the story of the parents wasn’t completely out of order?

I would like to comment on this.
W’ll start with:
The spiritual world is not supporting religions only.
The spiritual world is also supporting earthy Enlightenment.
The spiritual world is also supporting science.
The spiritual world is also supporting the development of medical science.

So a family not letting the children be vaccinated against malaria, polio, tetanus has the name to be old-fashioned and not to understand what God’s plans are with mankind. However, the spiritual world has a slightly different perspective.
Though the spiritual world is supporting science and medical development this does not imply mankind should follow doctors without any distinction.
Too many vaccinations against diseases so to speak can also have a contrary effect. Too many medicines may also act as poisons and may deplete the natural resistance. A healthy critical attitude to doctors can be a good thing. Especially nowadays where the health and the approach of diseases is very medicalized.

I ask this question to all parents: how do you raise your children? What mental and physical baggage are you giving them? Are you preparing them for life? And why should your children be vaccinated against all diseases? What are you afraid of?
But I also ask the question: how do you parents explain your child, if it has not been vaccinated against polio and then has got polio? What do you say to your child, if it is  lifelong disabled?
Parents need to ask themselves what is best for their children. And if they are deeply religious they should not say too soon God was willing to give their child polio. Because maybe God didn’t want it at all.

Time will come diseases can be cured in different manners than by preventive vaccination.
Time will come serious diseases hardly will occur, just because medical science has become that advanced.

And in this story is of value: parents shouldn’t presume too quickly everything is happening according to God's will, because God's will and  God's laws do not have to mixed up.
Getting stomach trouble by drinking too much coffee is happening according to the laws of God, but not according to God's will.

See http://watchthegod-english.blogspot.nl/2012/03/god-says-when-you-in-trouble-are-saying.html

My blessings to you all

 

God's will and God's laws are not the same

It is said so easily by man, God's will be done or Insha'Allah.

You are so casual on the responsibility of God for all suffering, all sorrow, all disasters. And what are you blaming God easily while it is happening according to God’s laws, not at all according to God’s will.

When a man at work is busy and drinks much coffee and the coffee and the workload is causing a gastric cancer, the man can curse God: "Why me, God?" And when someone is deeply religious, he may exclaim "God's will be done" or "Insha'Allah".
As if God is at the helm of his messy lifestyle and as if it is God’s deepest wish for this man to develop a stomach cancer. And that's not necessarily so.

I tell you this: the man acts under his own free will and experiences the consequences of God’s laws, not God’s will. Because God does not want him to have an ulcer. God wants him to be happy and live his life and stay healthy. And God wants him to learn his lessons less painfully . As consequence his stomach cancer will bring him great insights and other valuable experiences, but this is chapter two, and maybe topic for another blog.
My point of view is this: the events of the world, the physical world, are caused by two important principles.

1. God’s will
2. God’s laws

In the example of this man only God’s laws have occurred, as water boils at 100 °, and as the sun gives daylight and as one plus one makes two.
The cause and effect cycle is just one of God’s laws.

This poor man didn’t know how to get on with his psyche, his health. And instead of talking about his workload, putting it in perspective, asking his neighbor, his boss or his God for advice how to live differently, he continued cockily. He sought solace in coffee and thus burdened his mind psycologically and his body (with stress feelings) and his intestines and blood physically (by the quantities of coffee). Duly noted.
(And to avoid misunderstandings: I am not saying that all cancers occur in this manner, it is merely a symbolic example).
I have told you in other blogs what God’s will is implying.

In this example, and in this blog I tell you, do not think too soon what to make out of the will of God. And don’t think too easily about the laws of God.
Because in God’s cosmos one plus one makes two, as easy as that.
God has compromised Itself to Its laws, so what else there is to do to you. And indeed you’re doing this regularly all right, but not all the time or you are doing it light-heartedly and casually.

There are atheists who have deleted their faith, because the many suffering in the world did them grumble, "If there was a God, I would like to call to account him (sec) for all the suffering in the world.

My reply is: "God’s laws were working, not God's will. And you all have caused these laws into effect by your actions, your greed, your negligence, your fascination with your own ego, your destruction of the rainforests, your excessive consumption, your craving for luxury, your indolence, your indifference to your fellow man.

And this comes out of your free will (one of God’s other laws).
And in this way you put into operation God’s law of negative-causes-generate-negative-impacts.
But know this: God's Will is rather you will lay claim to God’s law of positive-causes-generate-positive-impacts.
This is subject of many of My blogs.

And I would like to conclude: in all cases, everything will be fine, directly or through one detour, because in what’s going wrong is included hidden means and corrections, so as a result one can only take one direction, toward God’s house.

That’s one of God’s laws as well.

My blessings to you all

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