Exercise Your Free Will To Stay In His Fold

God is bigger than your Bible studies teacher's ideas of Him, God is bigger than Christianity. Everybody gets God to the level of their understanding, you don't need anyone to impose theirs on you. Make all discoveries yourself. Believe me, it is the best thing you can do in your life ever. Everything then will just unfold the right way.

God never turns away from you. He's always there (everywhere actually) wanting you to have joy and meaning in life. However ,your soul is a battlefield and the prize is you. If you give in to the negativity, stay stuck in unhappiness and suffering, obey the voices that keep telling you to destroy yourself, Devil's mission is accomplished. Your life is wasted. If you turn to God, let him fill your heart, so that there's no place left for darkness, your life will be full of His light and, trust me, there's nothing better than that. You just need to soften up inside, trust and believe, open your eyes and accept Him. You will be amazed how everything else will start falling into place. Just make that commitment and pray.

In my time, I would have kept repeating "God help me out of my disbelief!" day in, day out - until the first glimpse of His grace. You will know when it arrives and you will know then what it is all about. Belief is not to be tested by reason and logic, belief is about exercising your free will. It's an entirely different realm form what we call science but it is none the less real.

For me, my practice of Vipassana and kundalini yoga is such an exercise of free will. It is my small step towards God, and he makes ten giant ones towards you in return. You need to make your choice and show your commitment, do your part. We have the freedom to choose, we are not mere puppets. But the great thing is, our part is the easiest. God does the hardest part. "His yoke is easy, His burden is light". All is needed from you is to make your choice and follow it. You actually make just the first step and His Amazing Grace greets you right there. The rest is much easier when you know (not that somebody told you, but you know from your own direct experience!) what you are in there for. Just keep persisting on your way to Him.

There may be falls and setbacks, but the point is that once you're on the right path, you're moving in the right direction.A step to the left, a step to the right, a pause or even a step back don't matter much. The beauty of it all is that God never turns away from you, as long as you keep him in your mind, in your heart's sight, you will never fall out of His Favour, it will always stay with you. It is really up to you, your commitment and your exercise of free will whether to stay within his fold or fall out of it.

There may be all wrong kinds of reasons, occurrences and influences that keep you in your existence of suffering, out of His fold. Fear is, probably number one. Fear to leave your comfort zone, fear of the unknown, fear of having to work hard, fear to try new things or meet new people. Fear does not come from God, it comes from your Enemy. If you keep listening to it, you are bound for self-destruction. Overcoming your fear is the first step in exercising your free will.