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Preparation for talking with God

God in my life: he is the only One who counts

Note. Before I recite and meditate on my prayers, I prepare myself with this short introduction that I call Preparation for talking with God - The God of the Universe. Its explanation is below.

Praying preparation

We, intelligent beings, have only two alternatives regarding the existence of God: either we believe in a God-Designer of the universe, the One for whom are all things (Hebrew 2.10); or we believe that the universe is "god" and exists by itself.

The latter would mean also that, just by chance, precise laws that made life possible were created; and also that just by chance, repeated orderly, millions and millions of times, the marvels of human beings and of the universe were produced; which is an absurdity.

I believe in God, and now, when I want to talk with him, the first thing that I want to have in mind is that he is the only One who counts. All the rest are trifles. Thus I should forget, during this prayer time, anything that is not God. What greater joy is there than that God be glorified, and to be able to be and to talk with him!

When there was no space, neither time or universe, he simply was, existed in himself; but now, when there is a creation, we and everything that exist are in him and he is within us. God fills everything with his immensity, but is not limited by the universe.

He doesn't have a physical figure, and therefore he can not be imagined any way: he is incorporeal; he is simply Being!

He has been, is and will be Being, Existence, Life, Action, Energy, the Holy One, Power, Kindness, Love, Wisdom; he wanted us to be able, not only to believe in him, but also to know him, and to have experiences of his being as a personal God; he talks with us in the same way that he talked with the prophets.

God is the Holy One. This creates a personal relationship of ourselves with him, as Jesus taught when he said that God was somebody as Abba, Father, and be Hallowed, confirming Old Testament teaching (Deuteronomy 14.1). (Father is an analogy that in our mentality we have associated with a physical image that God does not have.)