The above scripture comes from Luke 17: 21, which impresses upon our mind that we shouldn’t just believe that Heaven is above us, or that God is above us, and thereby looking down upon us, but rather we would be better served by recognizing that first of all, God is immanent in everything that we encounter, whether it be physical, mental, or spiritual. In other words, God is everywhere, and if we only take the time, to use the concentration of our mind, and also have the patience to search diligently for God, we would thereby recognize that God is not only with us but has always been with us, from our very inception.
We find that in Western societies, there seems to be a basic belief, for those who are God-fearing, that though God surely exists, that God is also often seen as an Entity that is beyond our tangible reach. Yet, in essence, this is not true, at all, for God is as close to us, as our own being will accept that closeness. In truth, those who sincerely desire to find God will surely do so when they take the time and thereby calm their minds to touch God through the prism of their mind that meditates serenely upon God. That is to say, to find God’s Kingdom, we often are going to need to remove from our mind our thinking about or our contemplating upon our everyday issues, and clear these from our mind, so that we can focus on God, and God alone.
For a certainty, to find that Kingdom within, is not the easiest of tasks, but for those that are both diligent and motivated, we will find that which will enlighten us, and when we do so find that Kingdom within, we will be a better person, for it, because this signifies that there really isn’t a great divide between what we believe that we are, and what God is, but rather there appears to be distance between us, only because we are expending our energies in the wrong direction, or have taken a wrong turn.
Indeed, it is vital to recognize that to find that Kingdom within, is going to make us a better and a more complete person because God is our ever-present help in trouble, who is only too willing to help guide us to the ever-safe sanctuary that God represents. It is important therefore to believe that God exists, for that should bring us a great degree of comfort, for God is love, justice, fairness, and immortal – it is also of immense value to try to do our good part to find God, in the here and now, as opposed to waiting upon our physical demise to recognize that God was always with us, from our very first breath, until our last.
We need then to do our good part to search for God, and when we do so, we will ultimately find God, of which, God is as personal to us, as we will permit God to be, for God is everywhere and nowhere, as close to us, as we will accept, if only we would calmly open our mind’s eye to really see and to thereby knowingly believe.