July 28, 2017 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration

  SPEAKING OF RELIGION 

"God has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter, but 
of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life…" 1 Corinthians 3:6

You come to your minister, or priest to hear a talk about God. Clergy are just a 
spark plug. If you came to see me practice piano, you would not learn how to play 
the piano. You yourself have to practice it yourself every day. You have to practice the 
presence of God yourself too. No one can do it for you. The good news is that the 
prayer line is open. The good news is that you can have God's help whenever you 
want it.

Practice the presence of God in your own life, don't just read about it.

Kahlil Gibran said this when he was speaking of religion:

“And they said to an old priest, ‘Speak to us of religion.’ And he said, ‘Have I 
spoke of anything else this day? Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, and
that which is neither deed nor reflection but a wonder and a surprise ever 
springing in the soul? Even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom, who 
can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupation? Who 
can spread his hours before him saying 'This is for God and this is for myself. 
This is for my soul and this is for my body'? Are all your hours wings that beat 
through space from self to self? He who wears his mortality but his best garment 
were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. And he 
who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his songbird in a cage. The freest 
song comes not through bars and wires. And he to whom worshipping is a window to 
open but also to shut has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are 
from dawn to dawn.

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter it, take 
with you your all. Take the plow and the forge and the mallet and the lute, the 
things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight, for in every sense you 
can't rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures. And take 
with you all men. For adoration you cannot fly higher than your hopes nor humble 
yourself lower than their despair. And if you would know God, be ye therefore not
a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see them. Playing with 
your children, look into space and you shall see Him walking in a cloud, 
outstretching His arms in the lightning, descending in the rain. You shall see 
Him smiling in flowers and then rising and waving His hands in trees."

What you think about God says more about you than it does about God. If we think 
God is way up there and we can never reach God that speaks of us and our own 
limitations, our own shut window. It does not speak about the God Truth of the 
open connection that is always with us ... if we would just pray and listen.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, help me this day to know You more.
I desire to know You in a personal way.
Thank You God for being in my life.

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I live my truth. I walk the talk.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but 
often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has 
been opened for us." Helen Keller


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