A reflection on who we really are, and who God really is too?
By emptychair
@innertalks (23742)
Australia
October 4, 2020 7:35pm CST
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."
The truth empties itself into life from its ocean of love, and this is who you are, one of the vehicles that fills up with love for a time to distil God's truth within, and to filter the false from the true, or your mind's thoughts from your heart's knowings.
This is essentially why you are who you are. You are you, because God is God.
Why are we not more often our real self, but feel so false then, by our not knowing who we really are?
This is because the emptiness must be allowed to sit and be filled in God's time, and this requires you not to fill it yourself with your own wants and fears.
When you be who you are not, you are not who you be.
Our real self is a bit of misnomer in that all is part of the one greater reality, but the outer self, if it cuts off the inner self, loses its full view of the totality of God's reality of oneness, and so it then feels separated off from this in some way, and that usually then manifests in the outer self as fear.
Most of us do not know why we are who we are. This is because we are trying to be this false person whom we think that we are, but who we really are not.
We are who we are, because we can never be any other.
It has been said that we must first get lost before we can be found. This is how we can find who we really are.
Getting lost is thinking that we are only our lower bodies, and being found is when we discover the intuitional insights that are always coming to us from our higher self.
When we discover where these insights are, in fact, originating from, it is then that we have discovered our real self, and so at this stage, we are no longer lost by being our lower selves only.
To discover our real self is the beginning of our real journey into increasing our conscious connection to God's love, and so to building an inner awareness, and thereby obtaining the insight into who we really are in relationship to God.
This is the real self-discovery, and it will lead to the remarkable finding that you must be God as well, or at least that you are being contained somehow within him. God is all as you will soon discover from finding yourself within him.
God once said in answer to the question put to him about who he was, that he is who he is. We are the same, we are who we are, and the only real reason for this is because God is who he is too.
This comes from out of the Christian bible, and where God apparently replied to Moses in these words. Moses had asked God about who could he say God was to those who asked him about what God's real name was, or about who it was that had sent him to talk to them.
God said here to Moses, " I AM WHO I AM."
This comes from the book of Exodus, on the old Testament, of the Christian Bible, and is to be found at chapter 3, and verse 14.
If even God does not know why he is who he is, neither then can we. We should just strive to be the part of God that we are, and leave the rest to God.
I am who I am, because I have been created to be who I am.
Nothing else can affect who I really am.
Experiences are a dime a dozen, and experiences can show us, or reflect to us, who we are, but they can not ever define the real person, or the soul, or the part of God, who we really are.
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Are we just the ship being buffeted by life, or are we really more than this too?
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Oct 20
We are the captains of our own boats in life and we have to be smart in steering through life. I keep to my faith and I believe in the Lord and I know if I hit stormy waters He will help me out but the rest is up to me
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
5 Oct 20
A lot of different people have said that, that we are the captain's of our own ships, or boats.
Are we really the captain of our own ship, whatever that means, and should we even try to be so too?
The ultimate captain of anything is the one holding the reins of the horse of life, as God only does.
Sure, we hold the horse of our own life by managing it too, but in a way, life has its control over us too.
God shows us this, that we are all just a part of life here, but really our soul captains another ship in God's world, waiting for us there to come back, and captain it there too, rather than our thinking that our sole aim in life is just to captain that smaller ship here, on the Earth, here, as well.
Our big ship remains in Heaven. We should not forget that.
@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Oct 20
@innertalks actually it is interesting that you put it that way. I am a believer or have been a believer that actually we in a different kind of way are sleeping up there beyond the clouds. The life we live is our dream and it all works out if we have faith and continue believing in the Lord. Then when we die we wake up where we were all along and continue our spiritual life until we might go on to another life or dream as I put it,
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
5 Oct 20
@RasmaSandra Yes, and then when we do dream at night, perhaps that is us back in our real position for a bit, to check that out again too.
We might have it all back to front here.
The way you put it, each new dream is like a new incarnation.
We do not so much have different lives, as we really have different dreams, from our higher self, or soul position.
I like that idea myself too, as it makes even more sense to me than which the idea of reincarnation does, that we actually become different people at different times and places.
The emphasis is placed there more on our earthly body, rather than where it should be really staying, or placed, with our heavenly body.
@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
5 Oct 20
I am not so sure.
Which part of us would be the Captain?
Our, body, our mind, our heart, or our thoughts, or perhaps our souls?
Can we really ever be in total control of our own lives?
Our bodies largely run themselves, without too much input from us.
Perhaps, we should more allow God to steer our ship in his direction, and let him be the pilot of our lives.
When we try to be Captain, too strongly alone, we can develop some problems of grandeur, if we think that we can do it all on our own, as a result of this thought.
"No man is an island alone", is another saying, so nobody captains their own ship alone either.
Most aeroplanes, and large ships, even buses, and trains, often always have co-captains, or more than one captain to run them.
@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
5 Oct 20
When we are created by God, then we are part of him and with a connection to him too.
Our feelings are same though we react differently.
We are part of nature but we have an independent identity too like all other species.
The sun, moon and other parts of the universe that we see play their part too for our survival and so it is a whole package that we need to survive and God is the ultimate juggler of everything we see and those we don't.
Yes, the love that oils the process, the energy of the system originates from the one source. We can feel it, and should reflect on it, to find our own meaning.
Though we have a body, we are more about pure consciousness and that awareness helps us to find a deeper meaning in life.
It is all a mystery as we have many beliefs, as also a few who seemed to have a higher level consciousness, convictions, but they too are mere humans. Despite the many astrologers and seers like Nostradamus, we could not predict the present virus for example.
So God is God, and we are mere mortals but when we live in pure love, we can feel the pulse of our creator throbbing in us. Our faith and belief can help us to tide over challenges but cannot evade them.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
5 Oct 20
That's a great description of both ourselves, and of God's roles in it all, siva.
At the top of all mountains sits God, but he also lies under them too, and between both ends of God lies and exists his creation, never apart from God.
We should realise that all fit into God, and we see that fitness in ourselves, (that we also fit into God) only when we fit God into ourselves.
Without God, all is as nothing; with God, all is complete in his love for us, for ourselves, and for the whole caboodle too.
@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
5 Oct 20
@innertalks Thanks Steve, I feel god lives in us as we live in him too.
That is an onerous responsibility as we have to measure up to our true potential but when god is in us, it should lead to supreme bliss rather than us trying to lead an isolated life, cut off from the whole process
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
5 Oct 20
@Shiva49 We can't get God out of ourselves; we can just try to block him from coming through, being felt, etc etc.
If we do not block him, we will feel his love, and be amazed by it too.
When we feel/listen to/follow our conscience, and so get an idea of the right thing to do, God's love is behind that, partially too, as our conscience finds its true home in God as well, I would say.
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