In my two previous posts I invited you to close your eyes and to block out the outside sounds. Hopefully you have opened your inner eye and inner ear. If you were successful, you have seen and heard things which may have surprised you. Your vision and imagination may have opened new possibilities for you. It may even be somewhat unbelievable and fearful to think that there is a new path available to you that could only be discovered from within. Go figure, it was inside of you all the time.
In the Bible, Jesus said, “do you not know that the Kingdom of God is within you?” We may travel to the center of the universe to find God only to discover that the pathway to God is not external but internal. ‘Knowledge about’ God and the universe can be externally obtained, but ‘knowledge of’ God must be internal. Knowledge about someone can come from information, study, and observation, but knowing someone can only come through intimacy and interaction. The power to discover God may not come from reaching out into the universe to touch God, it may simply come from having the humility to be touched by God.
As human beings we have studied the depths of the oceans. We have been to the Moon. We have studied the stars and explored space. We have extracted the wealth of the earth. We have harnessed multiple forms of power and sometimes think of ourselves as the masters of earth and the universe. Being disciplined for success may mean exploring the spiritual or unseen world within, as much as we have the natural world without. At the intersection of both worlds we may discover things that our eyes have not seen, our ears have not heard, and our hearts have not imagined.