{"id":118,"date":"2007-11-06T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/11\/remaining-in-the-holy-experien.html"},"modified":"2007-11-06T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T01:01:01","slug":"remaining-in-the-holy-experien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/11\/remaining-in-the-holy-experien.html","title":{"rendered":"Remaining in the Holy Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to anything having to do with God I have been blessed with absolute faith. I am utterly convinced that (a) there IS a God; (b) God is \u201con my side\u201d; (c) the power of God can be used at all times in the creation of my inner reality and my outer experience.<br \/>\nBecause I believe this, the idea of my having the Holy Experience is not even a little bit of a stretch for my imagination. I know that this experience exists and I feel sure that I can have it. I am convinced that I am going to have it. I believe that everyone has the opportunity to have it. I believe that it is ours for the asking.<br \/>\n====================================================================<br \/>\n<strong>Another in a continuing series of blogs on The Holy Experience.<\/strong><br \/>\n====================================================================<br \/>\nThe result of this is that I enter into the Holy Experience on a regular basis. My next goal, my next step, is to remain in it much more of the time, to live in it, to have my being within it and to come from it in the day-to-day of my life.<br \/>\nIf you are in this place of mind as well, or if you can go to this place now, you have taken the first step toward having the Holy Experience. Yet how can you go to this place if you do not know that it exists, or doubt that you are worthy of being there? Those are the key questions. Let\u2019s take the second one first.<br \/>\nWorthiness may very well be the biggest stumbling block of all. At first blush you may think that not many people believe themselves to be \u201cunworthy\u201d of holy encounters (or of much of anything, actually), but you would be amazed to find that low self-esteem and lack of self-worth are among the most prevalent mental and emotional afflictions (along with loneliness) suffered by people in the world today. This is especially true in terms of our relationship with God.<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nIt is really quite simple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;many millions of people have been raised to believe that they were born in \u201coriginal sin.\u201d That is, insofar as God is concerned, they were unworthy at birth. This, they have been told by their religion. Therefore \u201cunworthiness\u201d is, for many people, an article of faith. Not to believe in one\u2019s own unworthiness is not to believe in the Word of God.<br \/>\nOther religions teach us, as well, that we are all sinners, and while they may not claim that we were unworthy at birth, they now pretty much agree that life in human form has turned us into less-than-perfect beings, unworthy of sitting at the right hand of God the Father Almighty unless we are saved.<br \/>\nIndeed, most religions, not only just a few, teach that some form of purification is required in order to qualify for entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. Paradise, it seems, comes at a price.<br \/>\nWe must all, we are told, repent of our sins and walk the narrow path. How many of us have done so with sufficient success to meet the requirements of God is arguable\u2014or so conventional wisdom goes.<br \/>\nIt is not difficult to understand, given these continuous teachings from our elders, how it comes to pass that millions upon millions of people do indeed think of themselves as unworthy to meet God\u2014and meeting God, of course, is what the Holy Experience is all about.<br \/>\n====================================================================<br \/>\n<strong>This series on The Holy Experience continues here on Thursday.<\/strong><br \/>\n====================================================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to anything having to do with God I have been blessed with absolute faith. I am utterly convinced that (a) there IS a God; (b) God is \u201con my side\u201d; (c) the power of God can be used at all times in the creation of my inner reality and my outer experience.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-the-new-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remaining in the Holy Experience - Conversations with God<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remaining in the Holy Experience - Conversations with God\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When it comes to anything having to do with God I have been blessed with absolute faith. 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