What comes in our mind whenever we hear the phrase “Divine Love?” Have you ever experienced the feeling of fear? How does it feel experiencing the presence of Divine Love?
Looking at the sky on a clear night, we see some stars brighter than the others. The brightest ones are first-magnitude stars, as astronomers classify them. Then next to the brightest are second-magnitude, and so on. The unaided human eye can see stars as faint as fifth magnitude.
There are levels of brightness, so to speak, in our spiritual experience, too. We go around, day by day, in an ordinary level of awareness, thinking of God from time to time, thinking of a divine thought from time to time, but with no great focus or sincerity or insight or receptivity. Our ordinary stream of conscious life is fifth-magnitude experience with God. We believe in God, but there is no consciousness of any interaction between the divine love and our own mind.
Here we can now ask, how do then people feel the presence of the divine love? Most of us may say that fear strikes most. But why is it fear and not happiness? If it is the divine love, we must be happy but it is like a paradox that we feel.
To explain the feeling of fear, allow me to relate an experience. I have a friend who was a lost sheep. She stopped believing in the divine love. One day, she called me in the middle of the night. I asked her why she sounded fearful and she told me that she dreamt of a shadow that can be hardly seen because of the extreme light told her that she must turn her back in her old ways. She told me that she was perspiring and feeling cold when she woke up. I cannot say that God spoke to her but analyzing the story, we can say that it is because of our wicked ways that we feel fear whenever we experience the divine love.
Despite the fear, God still manifests His love and pulling us closer to Him. This doing of God is a joyful experience. There is that inner joy within us despite the fear that overshadowed it. Why? It is because we respond to this call of the presence of the divine love. At the end, the inner joy will always prevail.
As we turn to God in a deeper focus, in deep need, in great sincerity, we feel His presence stronger. As we wait after making our prayer to let His answer come to consciousness, we may sense some enhancement of awareness of truth, beauty, and goodness. Our spontaneous sense is that such awareness is a gift from God.
The experience of divine love can bless us at any moment. It does not need to be a high magnitude experience to be heartening, touching, encouraging. At the same time, divine love is an experience that culminates a process of growth.
Listen to your conscience. It's the voice of God. It guides you about making the right choice which God wants you to follow.
We may have sinned. But our God is a forgiving God. If we repent sincerely, He welcomes us anytime. We just have to begin a new life with Him and He will lead us to the right path.
Divine love doesn't need to be in big magnitude in order to be felt. It happens everyday in our life from the time of conception until our death up to the life eternity with our Creator.
Despite the gravity of our sin, we need not fear if we want to surrender our life to Him. That's how the magic of divine love works. Then, some mysterious ways, as if with the magic wand of divine love working, everything else will fall in its right place.
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