{"id":25,"date":"2009-06-21T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reaching-god.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-08-28T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T13:07:24","slug":"reaching-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reaching-god.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Reaching God…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reaching God is a desire treasured and a dream nourished by many. Young men join seminaries and women monasteries even from their teens with the ardent desire to reach God. Some wander away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life to forests and deserts embracing solitude and spend the rest of their lives in meditation in their quest to reach God. Massive conventions are held and millions of preachers struggle hard to drive the people into the right road to reach God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gorgeous cathedrals, lavishly furbished Temples, Mosques and minarets adorned with precious metals and other pompusly decorated worship places proclaim their thirst to reach God. People of different religions try to destroy one another to prove others are wrong in their pursuit to reach God. People of the same religion massacre each other to establish that their path is the right one to reach God. Ecclesiastical leaders plunder their sheep and fight each other in courts of law on earth to establish their rights to seat themselves on the unseen thrones in heaven after reaching God!<\/span><\/p>\n

But who can reach God? Let’s listen to David….<\/span><\/p>\n

1<\/sup>Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?<\/p>\n

2<\/sup>He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.<\/p>\n

3<\/sup>He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.<\/p>\n

4<\/sup>In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.<\/p>\n

5<\/sup>He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Psalm 15<\/p>\n

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