Can I Be Present and Pay My Bills at the Same Time? | Eckhart Answers

Riding my bike around the city was a wonderful experience. Flowers smelling sweet. Children playing outside, without much worries in the world. Wind continued to make noise in the back of my ears. A calming sensation of pure satisfaction.

We are on the go! Today if you are not busy, you are not successful. Achievement is all that counts. Climbing up the ladder is our goal. In the process, you ignore the soul. The mind and the body work with all this hustle and bustle of life. The world dictates our values and goals. Knowing and doing the will of God through waiting is an alien concept.

What is redemption? Knowing and doing the will of God starts with a proper understanding of redemption. It is not an often used word today except in pawn shop context. Redeem mean to take back what is yours. But first it went some where from the original owner for a reason. It is usually when some one sells it for a value. The value depends upon the product.

This doctrine questioned the Roman Catholic tradition for the first time in history. Luther found this doctrine form the Bible in a new light. He feared the punishment of God. Knowing and doing the will of God will go wrong if you saw God only as a punisher. He knew he was a sinner before God in spite of his role as an ordained clergy. It took him a while to come to the realization that the whole Christian faith stood on a truth far removed from the people. The church did not reveal this truth in honesty. Faith is the instrument that justifies us in the sight of God.

Adoption in the Christian sense is a little bit different from the meaning used to adopt babies today. Knowing and doing the will of God starts at the heart of this concept. Adoption usually means adopting or taking as your own some one else’s child. IN the Christian sense, it is false because God is taking back into the family a child once lost and now found. This is adoption into the family of God. The person lost God from the time of birth and now it requires an adapting to the new family. God declares you as son or daughter.

One of the leading scholars of Israel came to Jesus in the night. Jesus told him that unless a person is born again he would not see the kingdom of God. This scholar did not that knowing and doing the will of God required a rebirth.

Parenting is a joy and could be a pain sometimes. Knowing and doing the will of God will teach us parenting role. It is a mixed bag of nuts. God initiated this form of institution to raise children for a purpose.

Why marriage is called an institution? Not all relationships fall under this category. Knowing and doing the will of God defines marriage as the foundation stone for any civilization, culture and country. Population of people makes a village, town and city. Families are the legal and traditional way of making babies.

Beauty of simplicity; a word not known by any other name. Who would argue against being simple? I would probably say many. Many people enjoy being complex, because they believe if they are complex, they are bound to be different.

We are born alone and we die alone. A simple concept, which continues to ring true throughout my waking hours of living. No matter what has happened in my life, I have come to conclude, that we are born alone and we die alone.

I have been thinking a lot about how waves from the ocean are energy flowing in and out. When you think of waves, what is the first thing that pops into your head? Fun? Surfers? Scary?

Emotional wisdom is traced in our minds before we are born. We are awakening to a new beginning, a new way of breathing and questioning ourselves and our surroundings. The missing link that is being neglected is this: Everything you need to know, is inside each and every individual on this planet!