Going "Up" and Pulling "'Down"

There are a few basic precepts around how to reach God effectively, where the request for (re-)connection is less a demand for personal leverage (to be diplomatic) and more an appeal for reconciliation; less a form of trite manipulation on your terms, more a humble admittance of your own past wrong-doings on His. So the 'Up' button might better be called a 'Down' rope, to the extent that we get from God the answers we need after we do something first, which action involves doing spiritually & literally our part to restore the relationship God wants to have with us; a relationship of unmerited blessing & grace spurred on by His unconditional love, that is always our divine gift & promise (it's only a breath away He says), but that lately (well, since Adam & Eve) has been waylayed by that wrecking ball: Sin.

Simply put, God expects us to act as though He Were God (He Is) and we were His creation (we are), which simple act of ascent quite naturally presupposes a reshuffling of the hierarchical deck, so to speak, so that the King is always top card.

"Return to me and I will return to you [read Zechariah Chapter 1 verse 2]," says the Lord; or to paraphrase, since He has given us every possible opportunity to share in His life both now and forever, "You first."

And so we can come to God, from wherever we've gone or now happen to be, with this simple understanding: He calls us to return to Him as a child returns to a doting Father, trusting in His limitless Mercy, believing in His miraculous love.

Yes, the door opens from the inside ...

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