Encounter with the loving God
leads to conversion
It is our common human experience
that after encountering a loving, gentle and understanding person, we come to
realize what it means to be loving and compassionate persons ourselves and how
much we fall short in this regard. Encountering a loving person reveals to us
who we are and awakens our own inner goodness to be better persons. Such good
experiences also stimulate us to be better and transformed person. It is just
like realizing the value of light after going through agonizing experience of
darkness; say in a dark tunnel or in a crowded train without lights. In the process of conversion, first comes the
encounter with the unconditionally loving God, and transformation of the sinful
self is the result of this loving encounter. Unfortunately we do not seem to be
promotion this procedure in our spiritualities. Our focus is: mend your ways,
drop your sins and then experience the good God. Actually it should be:
encounter the loving God, experience him as best you as can and as deeply as
possible. Be sure and certain, you will be a transformed person. All sinners
are in need of repentance and of being forgiven, this becomes possible because
God loves us unconditionally. Repentance, basically is becoming aware of our
self-destructive choices and actions, and realizing how they destroy others,
the cosmos and our own selves. This grace filled, God filled awareness helps us
to abandon our old destructive ways and put ourselves on the path of self
transformation.
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