I wanted to let everybody know that I’ve added a link to the podcasts where I talk about the topics of the last few posts, down at the bottom of the posts. So if you want to hear more about Eternal Life High, or Making It Easy For You, take a look at those. Also I will be working on audio book versions of the chapters of My Book Effortless, of which I already have Chapter one and two recorded and linked at the bottom, and will be following with the subsequent chapters next.

Thanks for being with us.

Making It Easy for You

It’s not me making it easy for you. Jesus did that. The hard part, he did. You just have to accept it. You have to accept that you sinned, and Jesus died for it. Basically when you say thank you for dying for my sin, you’ve accepted it to be true, and when you accept that Jesus paid the price for your sin, you have access to him, and to God. That’s the hard part. Now all you do from then on is believe.

Believe in that? That’s part of it. But believe means to put your faith in Jesus. After this it’s no longer about the cross, really. It’s about believing in him now in your life, believing Jesus to be real right now, for you.

That’s the part I’m going to try to help you with.

Your one responsibility in this partnership with God is to believe. Believe what he did, believe he’s doing whatever else you need, and will do if you ask. Or my favorite, believe without needing anything particular. Put your faith in him for him alone. Just believe to hear him, to know him, and to feel him. Even that he’ll help you do.

When I was new at this, God used to tell me to just believe. I would ask him, what do you want me to do with my life, God, and he would say, ‘Just believe,’ just like he told people in the Bible when they came to him for a miracle. It was frustrating to me at the time. I’ve heard many people say that someone telling them to just believe is frustrating.

If you believe that Jesus saves you from all your sin, then Jesus is in your heart. You can’t be any closer than that. That’s what makes believing easy. I used to wonder what he meant when he said just believe. But I would do it. I would stop asking what, and I would look to him. I would stop looking around for an answer. I would just believe as well as I could.

I would still have to be reminded from time to time. But I would just believe. I would look to him, and think about nothing else.

Now I think I understand it better. I feel that I can tell you how to do it the easy way.

You believe Jesus is real. You believe he’s there, in your heart. Now put your faith in him in your heart. The God who is in your heart, believe in him.

Look to him there in your heart. Turn your eyes inward. Look, and believe.

What makes believing easy is that he’s right there in you. Look and believe. He’ll do the rest.

When I say, he’ll do the rest, that’s really the good part. You’re doing your part. You’re looking for him in the right place. Once you do that, he’ll take over from there. While you’re looking to him and believing, he will make himself known to you. How do I know that? Besides experience, because he’s done this so often with me I no longer doubt it, I know it because he is real. It’s not a fantasy we are putting our faith in. God is real and knowable. He’s not something you have to wait till Heaven to experience.

That’s the Eternal Life High.

You look in to start with, you believe, and he’ll show you. He’ll make it clear what you’re doing when you believe by joining with you in your faith. He’ll verify it for you by occupying that thought, that intent, in your heart. That’s God touching you. Don’t let go of that. That’s your guide.

What makes believing easy is that he’s right there in you.

That’s God touching you. Don’t let go of that. That’s your guide…

That’s him being real to you. Let him be. Let him be real.

That’s manifesting. He’s manifesting himself to you. Let him be real to you. 

You look to him, and he occupies that intent of your heart towards him.

We’re not famous evangelists, but we do have an anointing. We’re regular people sharing the eternal life high. That’s you and me. I’ll share your thoughts on the show, or we can set up a time to do an interview which we’ll have on the show. That’s our vision, to give a voice to the regular Christian who is living in the goodness of God and the high of eternal life.

This is Eternal Life High, where we are living on the high of Eternal Life here and now.

We are also Plain Speaking Ministries, making the Word of God easy to understand, and relationship with him simple. This is our introductory podcast. I’m going to tell you a little bit about our vision today and give you an idea of what’s in store. I really hope you’ll join me, because in this podcast I want you to be a part of the show. I want to hear from my listeners, and share our experiences of what living in the high of Eternal Life is all about.  

People don’t really think about eternal life when they hear the words, ‘Eternal Life,’ do they? What they think about is life after death. I’m here to tell you Eternal Life starts now. You can be high on Eternal Life! The Eternal Life High is knowing Jesus. That’s right. Knowing Jesus is the high that occupies your whole eternity. Just as Jesus never ends, you never end, and the fascination with him and all his wonders will keep you inspired forever.

The high of knowing him begins now, if you let it. It’s not hard. I’ll show you. But understand that it is meant to be this way. You are supposed to know Jesus. You were made to know him.

I have life for you in Jesus. It’s not me that gives you life; it’s him, only him. I know that’s no real revelation to you, but it needs to be said. I’ll give you instruction how, but all I’m really doing is directing you towards Jesus. You could almost ask why do you need me? It’s because the world is very confused about who Jesus is and what he came to do, and very confused about how to know him, because it’s actually easy to know Jesus. One of the easiest things in the world is also one of the most worthwhile. Is the most worthwhile, I should say. I can make it easy for you because I know how easy it is, and I’m going to give it to you straight. People usually give you about two tons of stuff that doesn’t belong when they try to tell you how. I’m going to show you it’s easy.

Here it is, simple as it can be. To Know Jesus, is to believe him.

Jesus said he is the way, the truth, and the life. He is. He’s all three. You don’t have to know three things. You only have to know one thing, him. He’s all of it. That’s the key. Let him be all of it for you.

The thing that trips people up is adding their own doing to it. It’s not based on your doing. It’s based on his doing. He did it. You just believe.

I’m really starting to get into it now, but I set out to just introduce myself to you, and to introduce the concept of Eternal Life High, so let me make it plain.

This is a life-giving broadcast. That’s our agenda here, to spread life. We have the keys and the words that will unlock the wonders of Eternal Life to you, and I hate to say it, but there’s a lot of flakey people out there making the same claim. I’m here simply to direct you to Jesus. He is the source of Eternal Life, here and now, not just in the afterlife. You can be full and abundant and gloriously accepted in him right now, and can enjoy perfect communion with him right now. And if you understand what that is, you’ll know that this will answer all your questions, bring you all the peace and welfare and goodness in your life you’ll ever need.

I know you might think, “I already have Jesus in my life,” and if you do, I’m not saying that’s not true. But there’s more. There’s more until there isn’t more, but when there isn’t more, that’s when it’s so great and wonderful, and most importantly, so sustained, so continual, that you simply have no more need for anything. You’ll be so satisfied, the only thing you’ll look for from that point on is how to share it with others, because you know that if everyone was in on this, you’d have such a beautiful community of believers, that we would have our utopia, our Garden of Eden, back on this earth, even now before Jesus returns. Then you can be here with me, with us, while we share and continue to grow our love for one another and our excitement to glorify God.

What is that way to get more I am referring to? That is the subject of every broadcast after this from here on out. Join us, and we will share with you the keys to the Eternal Life High.

People don’t even know that Christians can talk about anything relevant.

They think the only people that have any business saying anything about it are preachers. They don’t know that regular Christians can have profound understanding of the mysteries of God. They don’t know that God teaches regular people the greatest things, even greater than he does preachers and pastors, because he loves the humble folk who don’t do it to be seen. He’ll teach those that love him anything they want to know, and people that love him want to know him; therefore, regular people know the most amazing things about God.

I want you to have that experience with God. I’m not like preachers who want to tell you what they know and have you come back to them again and again for more. I want you to know God so you can feel this wonderful relationship and be led into a wonderful life, and when you come back I want you to be able to share. I want us to become a community of believers and knowers of God.

They don’t know that we can talk about anything relevant, meaning things that will affect their livers. They’re always thinking we have advice for them, the same things worldly people could advise, but they don’t realize we can actually give them the keys to life. We can help them know God, because we are his messengers, and he sends word through us meant to reconcile the world to him.

Maybe they don’t realize that knowing God will make their lives incredible, (eternal life starts now). But even a moment’s reflection should tell you that. The God of the Universe, who is the giver and source of life, gives you everything that pertains to life, direction, purpose, health and wealth. All these are a part of giving you life. If he gave you life on this earth, then he can supply you with what you need to sustain life, even more, to excel.

He just has one basic direction to that end:

“Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things (everything you need and desire… everything the ‘Gentiles’ seek) shall be added to you.”

That has always been the standard I follow.

I want to have a podcast experience here where we can share ideas in an interview format, but for now we’re going to have to keep it simple. So if you’d like to share with us some of the ways you experience the Eternal Life high, you can write me at eternallifehigh@gmail.com. I would love to include your input on our podcast. Let me know if I can use your first name so I can identify whose input I’m sharing, but if not I’ll be glad to share it anonymously.

Anointed Son of God

I can sit down at any time and have the Holy Spirit talk to me about how I am his son. I can listen to him build me up in that. I can be reassured by him. I can feel him bolstering up and emboldening my heart, shoring it up with love, encrusting it with jewels faceted in their settings. I simply take my place at his feet, the place that Mary had which Jesus said, “Shall not be taken from her,” and I listen like a child having come to him obediently, and he does what he said he would, what he always will. He builds me up.

It’s such a joy to know that it will always be available to me. Even if I’m down a moment before, even if God is not the least bit on my mind, even if I am engaging in wrongful doing right that minute, I can take advantage of the benefit of his influence, of his Living Water flowing as I believe, and I can be built up. It just takes a moment set aside to be at his feet once more. Even if God is not the one inspiring me to do it at that moment, I can make the decision all on my own, and it will happen.

I know how to do it, and you can, too. It is as easy as everything I’ve been saying since the beginning of this book. In fact it’s the same. It’s just come to me clearly again in yet another way, a way he spoke to me long before I had the knowledge I do now.

I was reminded of this word this morning, and sat down to do what this word directs me to do. I sat at his feet. When I did I was reminded how the Holy Spirit showed me that every time I come to him it was his job to build me up as his son. He builds me up in being his child, yes, but his grown child with all the benefits, and with a fully mature understanding of an adult in God’s Kingdom.

And what, pray tell, could be withheld from such a one as his son? What could stop me? What could pervert my cause?

I say that with the assumption (what should be the obvious assumption) that my desires, as his son, are lined up with his own. Are my desires always lined up with his? Absolutely not. But in that moment, they are. When I am with him, sitting at his feet, my desires are aligned with his. It happens as he speaks to me.

What does he say? Many things, but it always centers around two themes.

I am his anointed, and I am a son of the Living God.

I am an anointed son of the Living God… as are we all. All who have believed in God’s testimony that Jesus is his Son and Lord of Heaven and Earth are also anointed sons of the one great Holy Father. Yes, I know it seems amazing, but that is the revelation God gave me which led me to understand that he builds us up, as we submit and receive his loving, kind influence, in our anointing and sonship.

How do you do it? It’s easy. You don’t do much. You just sit at his feet. How do you do that when he’s invisible, or when you don’t know for sure he’s there? You just do it, and believe. You step aside with him. Whether you go sit somewhere by yourself, go for a walk alone, or simply choose to focus on him right where you are, you truly engage him, knowing he hears you and you hear him. I don’t mean you try to push yourself into him with a force of will. I mean be fully present. Look at him in your mind’s eye like he were a person you could talk to sitting with you, only look at him as he stays in you, moving with you, right in the center of you. Expect to know him. He’ll do the rest.

That’s how to do it. Now, how do I know it works?

The best answer is experience. But how do you get experience? How, rather, do you know this is something you can put your faith in?

Have you ever considered Peter on the night before Jesus was to be crucified? He was hearing this news, saying in his heart that he was determined to protect Jesus to the death if need be. He had his sword, and felt as if he would do anything for Jesus. Then Jesus tells him, ‘no, you will not. You will deny me three times before the rooster crows.’

Now, you’d feel kind of discouraged. You might have the muligrubs, so that later in Gethsemane when Jesus asked you to pray, you might just sleep through it. Yet it was in that very moment, praying before the temptation came, that he would have found the strength to do what God said.

What would God have said? What would God have told Peter that would have the power to keep him in the hour of temptation?

That was the simple question that occurred to me as I was contemplating Peter before the crucifixion, before the cock crew thrice. I could have taken the long way around. I could have set out upon a study to determine what it was God would have told him. Instead I foolishly asked God. I just asked him flat out, like he was there to answer.

Crazy, right? To believe God could be there to answer?

I’m just kidding. But I’m serious about speaking to God as if he could answer. Just like everything else I’ve been saying, anything really worthwhile in a relationship with God takes faith. That’s why the Bible says, God uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise, and the weak things to confound the mighty.

In my heart I heard the question. I blurted out. It was one of those moments when something resonates so strongly within you, that you find yourself speaking the thing out loud.

“Yeah, Lord, what would you have told Peter that would have kept him in the hour of temptation?”

I had my attention entirely on him. I had no expectation of an answer from anywhere else. It was just the slightest pause before I heard the words, spoken in an almost soundless, still, small voice.

“I would have told him the same thing about himself that he already knew about my Son.”

I instantly knew what the Lord was referring to. Peter had a special revelation from the Father God himself, a fact that Jesus confirmed, saying, “It is not flesh and blood that has revealed this to you, Peter, but my Father which is in Heaven.”

“Who do you say I am, Peter?” Jesus asked him.

“You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”

And what God would have told Peter that night in the Garden if he had stayed up to pray, the help that he would have given, was the same revelation about himself that he had been given about Jesus.

“Peter, you are a christ, a son of the Living God.”

…

It was a desire of my heart to know the answer to this question. I uncovered it with God’s help as I thought about Peter.

At first glance it may seem like sacrilege. Especially to call Peter a christ seems sacrilege. But if you understand the word, ‘Christ’, and what it means, you’ll realize it’s not sacrilegious at all. This is one of the mystical practices of the early Catholic Church in which they attempted to obscure the true power of a real believer in Jesus. They left this ubiquitous word, Christ, in the original language of Greek rather than translate it into what should have naturally been done. Then later when the Bible was translated into modern languages, the same tradition remained. Though I suspect it was not the fault of the translator himself, but of the tradition in the school in which he learned his Greek to simply translate the Greek ‘Christos’ into Christ rather than give it its true, simple meaning, Anointed. The word, Christ, means anointed.

And just so you know, the word ‘Messiah’ in the Old Testament was the Hebrew word meaning the exact same thing. The Messiah… the Christ… both mean the Anointed One.

There is one true Anointed One, just as there is one true Son of God. In the same way that he lives in us and makes us holy by his presence, we believers all inherit the anointing and sonship through him. Also if there’s nothing wrong with calling yourself a son or daughter of God because he has adopted you into his family, there is an equal irrelevance in the distinction of being a lesser anointed one. Jesus is called the ‘firstborn among many brethren,’ which makes us all little brothers and sisters… little christs as well.

God builds us up on this. He builds our understanding of it through teaching, (which he does do for us, personally and individually, the Holy Spirit teaching us all things Jn 14:26) and he builds the anointing and the reality of the state of being in us through contact. He does this when he comes to live inside, and he builds it up, or imparts it, or causes it to grow, as we believe and he flows through us over and over again. That is the Christian life, to let God flow and to grow and to impart and to be imparted unto. How exciting!

“And upon this rock I will build my church…” We’ve thought for years he was talking about Peter, since his name meant stone. In fact it was on this revelation that Jesus builds his church. He changed Simon’s name to Peter so he wouldn’t forget it. He builds his church on “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” first in believing in his Son, Jesus, and second in believing in his other son or daughter, you.

Disclaimer:

This is regardless of gender. It is an established tenet of the Bible that all spiritual blessings in Christ, and therefore in the New Covenant and Testament, are not given in respect of gender. In the Old Covenant they were, but so were land titles and rulership of kingdoms and lesser fiefdoms. I believe the passing of ‘anointings,’ which was synonymous with positions of authority before the Holy Spirit, were given more in respect of family traditions rather than God’s edict. Jesus by his very nature made that clear. He was born the son of a carpenter to people of no particular heritage except through scripture, born of the tribe of Judah which was not given a ruling status as were the Levites, the priests and leaders of Israel, but of Judah, the army and main body of people.

As the Apostle Paul put it, “You are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ, for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Gal 3:26-8.

Spiritual gifts and anointing are given only in respect of faith in Jesus, not in respect of anything natural. Only by faith. If this were not true, no one could even be saved, because no one could be saved if his performance had anything to do with it. Only by faith in Jesus are we saved, and only by faith are we blessed, endowed with spiritual gifts, or deemed worthy in any respect of anything God has for us, including all lesser blessings up to the full inheritance of eternal life.

In short, no one is chosen by God to be greater than anyone else. Only faith in him, which determines the degree and function of the flow of God through you, sets you in authority, and godly authority does not rule. It serves. It promotes. It encourages. It wants to see us all succeed. It leads by love.

The Main Thing

Now let me tell you something that will help you understand better than anything I could say.  

God will be what holds it together for you. He’ll be the power that makes it real. You can count on that like you count on the ground to hold you up. He will show you the way. Put your hand out and he will be there. Then what you feel from him, what he says to you, what you know because you touched him, that will lead you more and more to him. What happens the next time you reach for him, that will lead you, too, even more than before, until you have it. You know it. You can’t doubt any more because it’s the real thing.

Just don’t get caught up in what happened last time. When you speak to him again, he wants you to know he’s capable of doing the same thing, but he doesn’t have to, because he’s having a dynamic relationship with you. Think of him like you would another person. Would you say the same thing to your friend every time you spoke to him? Would you expect your friend to have the same things to say to you? God wants the relationship to grow, so he’s not always saying the same thing. He wants you to learn and develop. He’ll speak to you about progressively better and better things.

Don’t be surprised when you find yourself learning things you’ve never heard before. He wants us all to grow, but I think so many of us fail to grow, that hearing anything worthwhile from people, even ministers, is rare. God will quickly grow you to a place that no one else can touch. He does that because genuine interaction with him is more powerful than anything you hear outside of yourself. Afterall what he says to you has more impact, because he knows you. Other people may say wonderful things, revelations from God that are glorious, but you won’t have any appreciation for them until God shows you. Their words will have no meaning to you. You need God to prepare you.

What God is telling you right now is the most powerful truth you could learn. Whatever it is, he says it at the time you need it. It will be more powerful than anything else you could hear at that moment. So it will mean the most to you.

It’s not the information in the words. It’s the influence of the touch. He’ll make it real to you by making it alive to you. So sometimes it’s not even in words that he teaches or interacts with you. Sometimes it’s just a feeling. But it’s like James says about wisdom: “The wisdom that is from above is first of all peaceable.” You know God by his peace. He settles you as he speaks, or in any way that he flows to you, and you know it’s him.

Let you whole faith rest in him. Let him be the one who makes it clear, so that your faith truly rests in God, and in what he shows you.

Now I want you to spend a moment contemplating that. Let God minister to you himself. Look to him and believe on him, and let him flow.

You may feel you don’t yet understand, but that’s okay. It’s okay to not be sure of what you’re doing. Remember this is about God doing it, not you.

Look to him in your most honest, best understanding of who he is and relax. Submit. Be open to him as a little child he has called to himself and stands waiting, but sure. You’re sure of good things he has to tell you. You’re sure of his good intentions towards you. You’re sure that he alone has the greatest, most helpful thing to give you, more than anyone or anything else in all creation.

Let him be God to you.

Now don’t forget to keep interacting with him. You keep letting him be God to you, letting him know you in this way, and you will have a real Christian relationship with him. None of the other stuff really matters. From there he can lead you anywhere. Just keep him the main thing.

2. He Will Flow

I’m going to give you the answer right away. How do you know God?

“He that believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

That’s the answer. Here Jesus is describing what happens. You believe, and the waters flow. Just get this simple thing, and it will be clear. The water is God’s Spirit. So you just believe, and God’s Spirit flows.

That’s how to know him. That’s also knowing him as you go. I say that because often that’s where people trip up. They think knowing him is just a one time thing, or believing him is over once you’ve said your little salvation prayer. No, the action of salvation is ongoing, and so is the action of believing. The reason that it works, that it truly is salvation, is because he keeps going even if you don’t. He keeps saving you, continually, even if you don’t actively believe.

But a revealed, believing relationship with God is one in which you just see him and know him and feel him as you go through your day, not because you’re closing your eyes and praying to him every minute, but because you’ve already centered yourself in him and you just continue to believe. You could say, continue to experience him, as your faith and trust becomes more centered around what he has done, and not on what you’re doing.

I must repeat an invaluable tenet of this faith my Pastor taught me by repeating over and over again when I first came to church:

It’s not how good you are, it’s how good he is. It’s not what you’ve done, it’s what he’s done.

Keep that. Keep it safe in your heart.

Put your faith in God, and he will flow, through you, and to you.

That’s how to do it.

I will elaborate as fully as I know how in the remainder of this work, but it’s never going to be any more complicated than that. That’s the simple answer.

How do you know God? You believe in him, and he will flow.

1. Open Your Eyes

I always like a story when there’s an unspoken history behind what you’re reading, things alluded to in passing by the characters that you have to infer for yourself. It adds mystery, but I like it mostly because it’s the way life is. When you tell a story, you start somewhere in the middle of a larger story. This is no exception. I could go back and talk about how I got saved, how I came to Jesus after falling apart. But what I’m going to do instead is focus on a life lesson he taught me. How to know him. It’s sort of a culmination of the walk of learning on which he has led me.

We all know him. Jesus is available to know. But there’s knowing him as we go. It’s the active knowing as we walk through life that continually teaches us, keeps us, and helps us grow. Just meeting him once when you prayed to receive him, well, that’s good, but it shouldn’t stop there. You should keep knowing him. Knowing him as you go is the only way this Christian life is going to mean anything to you. Otherwise after a while it’s just like you’ve never been saved. You might be going to Heaven when you die, because Jesus has forgiven your sins, but you don’t feel any different now unless you keep knowing him.

It sounds almost like a work, and it could very easily be–I mean a ‘work’ in the sense that the Bible talks about it, in that we’re not ‘saved by works, but by faith.’ Knowing Jesus could easily be interpreted, and understood, as a kind of work you must do to earn God’s help in your life. The sad thing is if you interpret it that way, it very well could be a work to you. You could look at knowing Jesus as your duty, and think if you don’t do it, then you can’t very well expect Jesus to help you. See, anything can be made into a law, a work, or a law of works.

What I’m advocating is a different relationship to God, one that doesn’t depend on you doing anything to earn God’s good graces. Knowing him like this is just like opening your eyes.

You know why that is? It’s because God is there. When you open your eyes, you see him. When you reach out your hand, you touch him. When you speak to him, he hears you, and when you talk to him, he answers.

This different relationship is dependent on God being there just like that. Sadly many of us don’t believe that. Well, my friends, that’s the issue. Truly I tell you, if you believe God is there as truly and completely as if he were a physical person, that will be your experience. No, he’s not a physical person. He doesn’t have a physical body. We know that clearly from the Bible, “He that worships God must worship him in Spirit and in truth.” Jn 4. God is a Spirit, but contrary to popular belief, you can feel him. You can see him, feel him, and know him. You see, feel, and know him, spiritually.

It’s not spooky weird spiritual we’re talking about. The problem with our understanding of it is that folks have vilified the idea of God being real and knowable. They do that because they can’t stand God. They don’t want to face him. They don’t want to admit he’s real. They want some arm’s length relationship with him where all they have to do is follow some list of rules and don’t have to actually talk to him. God doesn’t want that. That’s what the law was, and that’s not his best.

No, God can be seen, felt, and heard, but not with physical eyes, ears, and skin. (Although he can. That’s not what I’m talking about here, though, but he certainly can manifest that way. What I’m talking about though is the way God is meant to be felt or experienced or known by every believer all the time. Spiritually.) Continually in your life God is meant to be known this way. You should walk with him in the cool of the day like Adam. Life should be like the Garden of Eden with God. In faith you can have that.

God can be known spiritually, and not an iffy kind of feeling, but real and tangible and not to be doubted. Now, how is it done? That’s what I’m trying to get to here with as little preamble as possible, but I feel I have to set the stage with this simple understanding that our experience with God is not physical, but spiritual, because God is a Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in Spirit and in truth. This is the part that needs understanding. Just because he’s a Spirit doesn’t mean he can’t be felt. You just feel him spiritually, with spiritual senses. You are meant to do that, folks, there are no shortcuts! This is the part where people want to turn to the law and follow him in a way they can understand. That’s just not the way it’s meant to be. It’s not the best.

Don’t be discouraged, now. It’s not hard. It’s not hard at all. It’s one of those misconceptions that have kept people from doing it. I’m here to tell you, folks, that most of you have been doing this all along. Maybe you didn’t realize it. But those who have had any kind of real relationship with God have always done this.

They have always ‘known’ God.

That’s an active knowing. That’s a knowing-as-you-go. It’s something you’re actually doing. You have to practice for a while, but soon it becomes habit. That’s oversimplifying it a little. It’s not so much habit, as it is that you’ve gotten your crazy misconceptions out of the way, and now you can just see God the way it was intended. The way it was meant to be, before the world and its worldly ways twisted and confused the subject and told you that you have to hide from God. Just like Adam in the Garden hiding after he sinned, just like Old Testament Hebrews putting a veil across the altar to keep God back there where only the priest could see him, it was never meant to be. And just like Adam hiding in the Garden, it’s foolish to even think that putting up these barriers really hides you, even if those barriers are just ones of false beliefs inside one’s own mind.

Believe right, and you will know God. You can’t help but know him, because he’s already there.

Right now. See him? He’s right there.

Open your eyes.