God as a fact.

God as a fact. 

We know God as all-knowing, all-powerful, as the Lord, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, as love, as the eternal and infinite being from whom all existence arises, even as the spiritual sun in heaven. But for firm faith, especially here on earth, God should stand within us as a brightly shining fact, so brightly shining that all the shadows that life casts upon us are dissolved in an instant by its light. The question is: how can I see and carry God within me as a rock-solid fact or truth that can serve me in all circumstances of life, as an infallible protective shield against pain and suffering, so that I never come into temptation to give up my faith in God? 

What hinders God as a fact within us and even makes it impossible are our own errors about what God is, what life is, and what we ourselves are. These errors arise from a lack of self-examination, for everything—God, life, and what we are—can and should be found within us. Where else, I wonder? There are undoubtedly a great many errors about the divinity and the life of God; one could say as many as there are people, because every person who has not truly accepted the Lord within themselves through their love for Him is mistaken to some degree about what God is, which, as just said, forms an obstacle to God in us as the only truth, that is, as a fact that cannot be abolished by anything, not even by death as our greatest fear. 

It is therefore of the utmost importance, if we never want to doubt or even deny the Lord, to examine our errors about God and separate them from the pure gold like dross. For whoever says that God is the only good and true thing, but then, through circumstances in life that test his faith, just as quickly doubts this good truth, has deceived himself, probably in order to be accepted by his fellow human beings, and was therefore an imitator without honesty, because he did not really feel what he thought and said, but instead of true love for the Lord, he felt pure fear of being wrong. 

Just as a scientist who, through research with data and laws, presents a natural phenomenon as something real, we must, in order to carry God as a fact within us, start research within ourselves, and one that first and foremost uncovers our errors and brings them to light. First of all, in order to carry God within us as an absolutely unshakeable fact, we must investigate where, when, and how we received God. If we accepted God through the letter as a name, or through the words of other people whom we attributed some authority on the subject, as something we simply imprinted on our memory, but without any feeling of love for the Lord, then God is worth as much to us as the dust on the street. 

Well, God is spirit, so He can be grasped as an idea, not as something material, but as something spiritual. But God is also Creation, so He is action and must therefore be reflected in our own actions if we want to apply our relationship with Him, that is, what He represents for us, in our lives and preach by example, not just with beautiful but empty words, which unfortunately happens too often. 

God is action. 

If we just consider that diligent action is highly valued in our society because everything in life can only be solved and achieved through right action, and that only action can produce an effect, it is not very difficult to recognize God, as the Creator of the universe He is, as a continuous stream of activity. A shining example of this would be the sun, which shines continuously, thus deriving its existence as the sun from the activity of its innermost being. Everything that exists, be it an atom or a sun, can only exist through its own activity, which expresses its being, i.e., brings it into existence. Between being and existence stands activity coming from within as the means of expression. If this is the case with objects of creation (creatures), how many more inconceivable degrees must activity stand as the cause of God's being? Since God is the cause and at the same time the end purpose of all creatures, i.e., the connection to Him, it is important to understand what it means that God is action, i.e., that He is in fact eternally active in the highest degree, because He sustains life from His unstoppable activity, through His Holy Spirit. For everything that exists in the universe owes its existence to the activity of God, because God is the first, that is, the cause, and thus arises continuously from the Divinity as the source, which can be seen in heaven as the sun. Without the activity of God, which is also the wars of Jehovah, nothing at all can come into existence, for every existence, whether that of an atom or that of a human being, arises as the ultimate expression or effect of all activity from the first existence of God in His eternal activity, visible in heaven as the spiritual sun. In other words, the Spirit of God sustains the entire universe, down to the last atom, by being active, that is, by flowing continuously. To understand this better, we can imagine a spring from which water bubbles up continuously. The gushing makes the spring, that is, the movement or action of the water. This means that if we truly want to understand God, we must swim along with Him in His activity, which leads us to the fact that God cannot be understood theoretically, but only practically, through our own activity, which is based on love for Him, as the highest blessing, if we have acted out of this love for God and our neighbor. It is in this happiness that one gratefully recognizes God as the power of love, for the benefit of one's own activity, which then constitutes life and thus leads the soul to God as the eternal source. God is eternal because He is eternally, that is, without beginning or end, as well as without space, active in the highest degree. 

One loves something else more than the Lord. 

When we speak of errors concerning God, we must inevitably point to the greatest error in our relationship with the Lord and face it without hesitation. But this error, let us not be mistaken, does not lie in our minds, as an idea or concept of the deity, but in our hearts and will, namely in our (free) will to love God above all else. 

What makes a relationship stronger than love? The answer to this question is obvious: nothing, except the trust that comes from love. And is not our relationship with the Lord the ultimate purpose of our lives? 

So we must ask ourselves: do we want an unstable relationship with the Father in Heaven, the Creator of our lives, a relationship based on “yes, but,” or do we WANT a relationship with the Lord that is as strong as it can possibly be? What do we really want? Would it make sense, or have any value for our souls, to love God because He gives us paradise on earth and makes everything easy, sweeping away evil and bad things from the world with His omnipotence? Shouldn't love be a force within us that allows us to march through thick and thin? Where would we get this strength if everything were simply perfect? I'll tell you what: we would become stupid and wither away. 

So... 

Who or what, apart from all the false ideas about God that we have already uncovered within ourselves, prevents us from securing the clearly recognized ultimate goal, the connection to the source of life, for ourselves? Only our love, which is still partly directed toward other things that seem more important to us. Add to that, mind you, our laziness, yes, pure laziness. Those who do not carry God firmly within themselves simply do not love Him enough because they want a more comfortable life. But this is no shame; it is an effect of the freedom of the soul, which, as soon as it receives more light about God and thus recognizes Him as the only true and good, can love Him without hesitation with all its strength. 

When that happens, there is no more doubt about the Lord and His ways; then one can look at this ugly and disgusting world and enter into one's own compassion, which awakens in the heart from love for the Lord and says to all other feelings within us: do not worry and be of good cheer, for He has arranged everything for the salvation of our souls, so that we may come to Him completely of our own free will to enter into His service, because only He is good and wise and has the very best fatherly love for us, which does not let us stray from the right path as long as we love Him above all else. 

Where or whom, I ask, should we serve if everyone is already “saved” by the Lord thanks to His omnipotence? We know only too well that this cannot be the case if we want to maintain our freedom. What then do we want from Him? Yes, that's right, we only want to love Him boundlessly! ❤️

And that He is love and that we, because we are from Him, want to love Him only, once we have truly understood and internalized this, is the light that allows us to see through the suffering of humanity and, instead of having false expectations of God, which inevitably lead to disappointment, allows us to recognize that He calls us only to (holy) service with every cry of pain that He Himself experienced here on earth in His own body, as the greatest sign of His love for us.  

Amen. 

Benidorm, July 1, 2025. René Bijloo