No matter how far away from God you are, turn to him, seek him, love him and you will find peace
God invites everyone; he wishes to love everyone into his Kingdom. Our relationship with God is manifested primarily in the way we relate to other human beings. We meet God when we meet one another across the divisions of our churches: we exclude God when we refuse to communicate with one another.
We can never merit God 's love by our own unaided efforts. "Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God's children; and that is what we are." (John3:1) Since we are God's children then as a Father He wants us whole and happy and if we are not, He wants to heal us.
We have tended to forget the all-embracing healing love of God the Father in our ministry of healing, and have seen it as a kind of divine love that does not penetrate our ordinary world and lives. We have played down Christ's revelation of His Father as someone to bring us healing. Why? After all, it is His Father's will that we are made whole. We emphasise instead the pagan notion of a pagan God who sends suffering as a punishment for our sins, so that Christ became His Father's and our scapegoat for our sins. Why? We have come to look on suffering as a means of 'meriting' or 'gaining' the Father's love, as if He did not love us enough already for who we are. Why do we do this when we are part of His loved creation? It is because it is a sin not grace, death not life, fear not love which dominates our religious thinking.
Remember God has sent his Holy Spirit to help you, so open your mind and heart each day to the Holy Spirit who is your companion. Begin your day with a quiet awareness of the Holy Spirit in your life. You will soon become aware of a type of inner peace which you have never experienced before.
