Everyone expects God to appear before them and sort their problems for them especially in christianity But what they comfortably neglects is that, God is never a presence like that. Even for moses, god appeared in a burning bush. The bush symbolizes the all the toil and hardship man has had upto the point, and god being the fire behind the bush, simply means God is there behind all those hardship. But in new testament, jesus appears to his disciples after resurrection, when they were catching fish. The went through a barren night without catching any fish, then jesus appears to them, unknown to the disciples, directs them to catch from the right of their boat, and they gets a net full of fish. This symbolizes how God is there behind all the goods in our lives.
After resurrection, jesus appears to his disciples first when they were trying to get away. Jesus went along them as a fellow traveller, and after he left, they understand it was jesus with them. Second time, when they were in a garden, jesus appears to them as the gardener. Then when the disciples left their faith and returned back to their old ways, catching fish, jesus appears to them as the greatest fisherman, and directs them to catch fishes. God's ways with humans are like that. We look for the obvious, expecting God, but his ways of interfering with our lives are like that. Its passive, most never understands it, yet they wait for the obvious. They wait for miracles, all they want to see is miracles, we have to think if its the miracle or the concept of God thats more important to us. Most of us are stuck in the level of miracle seekers than being God seekers. And for christianity, thats the curse we live with. We are given a proper God, that everyone accepts him without questioning the concept. Even God want us to be seekers, the life of faith is to seek truth, but most of us are happy with what we have in our hand, we never get out of that shell!
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Rumi was seeking for a master. He was already a known pundit, and a philosopher, he wanted to learn more. Once rumi was reading a large stack of books, when a stranger who looked weird, uneducated and begger-like asked him what he was reading. On seeing his ruggedness, rumi replied, it was something he will never understand, the stranger threw the stack of books to water. Rumi rescued the books but was dumb struck to find that the books did not get wet. He asked the stranger how could that be possible, stranger replied that rumi will never understand that. And the stranger obviously was Shams Tabrizi. Rumi was already well educated when he met shams, but it was his pride of being the most knowledgeable that took a hit there. Later Rumi became his disciple and attributed all his work's inspiration and motivation to his beloved master Shams. In a way, most of us who lives inside a faith is like that. We think our faith is the best of all, our belief system is unquestionable, but it crumbles when a stranger who has deep and right knowledge in his belief system question ours. So be someone who tries to understand and ask questions about our values, beliefs, faith etc than being a follower of something that was given to us!!
After resurrection, jesus appears to his disciples first when they were trying to get away. Jesus went along them as a fellow traveller, and after he left, they understand it was jesus with them. Second time, when they were in a garden, jesus appears to them as the gardener. Then when the disciples left their faith and returned back to their old ways, catching fish, jesus appears to them as the greatest fisherman, and directs them to catch fishes. God's ways with humans are like that. We look for the obvious, expecting God, but his ways of interfering with our lives are like that. Its passive, most never understands it, yet they wait for the obvious. They wait for miracles, all they want to see is miracles, we have to think if its the miracle or the concept of God thats more important to us. Most of us are stuck in the level of miracle seekers than being God seekers. And for christianity, thats the curse we live with. We are given a proper God, that everyone accepts him without questioning the concept. Even God want us to be seekers, the life of faith is to seek truth, but most of us are happy with what we have in our hand, we never get out of that shell!
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Rumi was seeking for a master. He was already a known pundit, and a philosopher, he wanted to learn more. Once rumi was reading a large stack of books, when a stranger who looked weird, uneducated and begger-like asked him what he was reading. On seeing his ruggedness, rumi replied, it was something he will never understand, the stranger threw the stack of books to water. Rumi rescued the books but was dumb struck to find that the books did not get wet. He asked the stranger how could that be possible, stranger replied that rumi will never understand that. And the stranger obviously was Shams Tabrizi. Rumi was already well educated when he met shams, but it was his pride of being the most knowledgeable that took a hit there. Later Rumi became his disciple and attributed all his work's inspiration and motivation to his beloved master Shams. In a way, most of us who lives inside a faith is like that. We think our faith is the best of all, our belief system is unquestionable, but it crumbles when a stranger who has deep and right knowledge in his belief system question ours. So be someone who tries to understand and ask questions about our values, beliefs, faith etc than being a follower of something that was given to us!!
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