Summer 2010 Jo Lee - JO LEE Magazine

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Where Is God?
By Stanley J. Dorst
San Francisco – California
Every week in church we sing “The
Spirit in me greets the Spirit in you,
God in us and we are in God.”
Does anyone take seriously that God
is in us?
Could believing this change the way
we pray? Would we need to adopt
a little Buddhism into our thinking,
i.e. searching for understanding what
the Spirit has to say on our concerns
because the father is not in the sky to
take care of things?
Do we need to examine the Spirit
within and then puzzle out how
we can carry out what the Spirit
is saying - in a way that works out
successfully?
For example in business, the Spirit
may tell us to love our business
partner and his lovely family but we
don’t seem to be making any money.
What to do? Pray for understanding.
Understanding may require more
information. Could an audit be
done in the spirit of friendship?
Perhaps so if it is done on the basis of
improving the accounting system or
reorganizing methods of financing.
In other words, if there is a problem,
the emphasis will be on new
solutions not laying blame.
In marriage, the Spirit tells us
to love and cherish our spouse
but something is wrong. What
to do? Pray for understanding.
Understanding may require more
information. We can seek this from
our spouse or we may need to do
some investigating in addition.
Our teenager is out of control and
not obeying us. What to do? Pray
for understanding.
Understanding may require more
information. Since 80% of a
teenager’s behavior is adopted from
their friends we can investigate
who they are and how positive are
their motivations? If the friends are
undesirable, what can be done about
it? What programs are there and how
successful are they? And how can
they be carried out in keeping with
the Holy Spirit?
So where is the God who will bring
us understanding of the path to
follow and success?
Finding the path of God’s will is not
easy - it takes lots of prayer.
Where is God? What do you think?
“God in us and we are in God”?
PS. There is some thinking on this
in Dan Brown’s new book “The Lost
Symbols” and Bishop Spong’s book
“Why Christianity Must Change or
Die.”
JL
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