When I was growing up I was taught a lot about God – I learnt about God at home, at school and at church. What I learnt about God never quite fit the picture for me, and now I am coming to know God more intimately I understand why.
I learnt when I was young that I was a sinner and that I was evil. If I did not want to be bad I had to work at it very astutely, as my natural way was one of sin: so good was I at sinning that I was told that God had to sacrifice his only son to teach me, and all of us, about Love.
What I now know is that I am naturally Love and that God’s Love lives inside me and impulses me to be who I naturally am. Of course, I can choose not to listen to this Love that lives inside me, and often do, but this in no way takes away from the fact that I am Love, and no matter what I do, I am still naturally Love.
I am not bad or evil and I am not a sinner that God had to sacrifice his only son for: if we are all part of God, does this not mean that we are ALL the sons of God?
I also learnt that God would punish me for my sins: I know this is definitely not true as, from my relationship with God I know that when I choose to do something that is not loving towards myself or others, God simply just keeps emanating his Love so that when I am ready I can also choose to emanate that same Love. One thing I have come to know about God is that he is so patient and he has no need for me to be in any certain way.
I was taught to fear God: that he was something far away and scary and that he could grant me things if I prayed to him and was good. I now know there is nothing to fear of God as he is a part of me and my equal, he lives within me and treasures me more deeply than I know or choose to treasure myself. I also know that God cannot grant me anything, but rather offers me free will so I can choose to grant myself through my everyday choices.
So much of what I learnt about God when I was young was not just wrong, but the complete opposite of what I now know to be true. How can this be, that from three different sources I was taught the same mis-truths?
How I know all of this is not because someone told me, but rather I have chosen to build and have an intimate relationship with myself; through this, my body has shown me all of this, and so much more.
- I have listened to how I feel about situations and occurrences… and not discounted these feelings.
- I have taken time to do Gentle Breath Meditations and then, to the best of my ability, lived from this quality.
- I have taken time to listen to my body, so when it is tired I rest rather than listen to my mind, which may tell me I need to keep going.
I am forever great-full to Serge Benhayon, Michael Benhayon, Miranda Benhayon, Natalie Benhayon and many others for inspiring me to build this intimate relationship with myself and God – for me there is no blessing greater.
by TS
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
The fact that almost everything this world presents to us is not naturally in line with what we know to be true within us and in our body is a testament to the fact of how upside down we have made this world to be. That is, making it all about everything that is not love.
Indeed Jenny, it is such a relief to know that God is already within and can be connected with just through our bodies. This makes clear to me how false the lies that are given to us by the institutionalized religions are.
Exactly Nico, and interesting to consider this from the perspective of ‘controlling the masses’…. something that’s easy to do if you disempower them to begin with. If we do not hold ourselves equal to God, or at the very least ‘Sons of God’, then we won’t even consider what it might mean to be connected with Him in such a personal and ‘internal’ way as you describe. It makes God very real and accessible, not some ‘almighty’ being in the sky for whom we must atone ourselves to even be worthy of sitting at his feet.
God is always there to reflect his love to us and with that constantly telling us that we are all equally to him. Whatever we do, doing the ‘good’ or the ‘bad’, will not change any in God, as he has given us free will to experiment with, knowingly that one day we all will return to his love as it is our natural origin and this can only happen when we are constantly kept and behold in his love, as it is this constant reflection that eventually will pull us out the shadows we have chosen to live in.
How can an all loving God have an once of punishment in him and what has created the belief that we are all irresponsible sinners who will go to hell if we do not toe the proverbial line? As we can all learn that there is a responsibility for what is happening in our life and that a loving choice is what we can all connect to and thus with God. This can make the difference in every areas of our life and even after death. Today while speaking about how amazing a wedding celebration was and the vitality and love that was simply undeniable, and this level of deep connectedness was confirming of the way God can be felt. God is love, death cannot be feared as the fear mongering teachings that we will go to hell describe.
I find it interesting that as a child attending a baptist chapel regularly that I cannot remember a single word the minister in the pulpit said. I chose to completely shut myself down in order to protect myself and over the last few years as I have attended funerals and weddings I have had some understanding as to why. Whenever I heard the words that Jesus was sent from God to save me I allowed myself to feel them and the impact they had on my body. Did the words support me or did they make me feel that I had done wrong and was a bad person? There is no doubt it is the latter I felt which I was able to feel because of the support from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Such a simple beauty to the understanding and experience of God here… that is inspiring. Unlike the doctrines and dictates of the multitude of organised religions and their view of a God Almighty who is ‘out there’ somewhere lording it over us mere mortals. To know Him by the way He feels within the body and in our expression of that same quality makes God very, very accessible and real thank you.
God is in fact within us and any religion that tells me that God is someone outside of me proves to me to be not true.
To get to know God is to get to know ourselves and this we can do, as you did, by building an intimate relationship with ourselves.
What a beautiful sharing of your knowing of God that we all know inside us thank you The true evil that we are taught that God punishes us judges us and that we are bad and sinners needs to be exposed and it is Serge Benhayon that is opening the way for us to live the truth by his honest reflection ,inspiration and integrity with the way he lives showing us we are all love and that is the simplicity of true religion.
The traditional religious pictures of God that I grew up with had him as this all-powerful being who sat on high and punishes us for our sins. It’s hard to develop a relationship with this God – where to start? And yet now I do have a relationship with God that is forever unfolding and deepening in line with the relationship I have with myself. God is within me and all around. He sends me messages via my body, through nature, through events, situations, other people……… God has been sending me messages all my lives but not reacting and withdrawing when I didn’t respond for so many eons. But now I can see them, feel them and appreciate them and support that is being offered to me every moment of every day by God.
Indeed Lucy, when we live from this understanding, that God is within and in everything around us makes life in fact already heaven on earth.
How gorgeous that through choosing to build and embrace the intimate relationship you are with yourself, you are able to feel what you now do. The power of honouring and listening to your body cannot be denied…. and is not only a blessing for yourself but also for all who meet you in this connection.
One of the most beautiful qualities of God is that he sees what a mess we have made down here on earth and regardless continues to hold us in the grace of his love and the grace of our potential as we learn from our imperfections and lessons that our everyday life blesses us with.
An “intimate relationship with myself and God – for me there is no blessing greater.” – how true this is. What is not given to you in that relationship to self and that true relationship to God? To know ourselves and the source that we come from is a true blessing. From that foundation we have so much to offer to humanity, because we are coming from a true connection.
We all are held in God’s love whether we do bad or evil or good and benevolence and in that cannot be judged to be sinners but as his children who are wielding free will until they find out where they truly belong.
Yes, how it is so important to build our own understanding, lived experience, and feeling yourself what is true in regards to religion. Coming from a stem cell within our body, not our mind. I am very curious what connections and religion then will come up in every single body, I am unsure that it will be much more greater than we ever realized. We seed our power forth in knowing who we are.
God is love and resides within in us all equally simple and true.
What a beautiful understanding of god.
We are from God and he will always be there if we choose to connect to him. There is no punishment or right or wrong, God is love and unwavering so, as it was only through our free will that made us deviate from our true origin. And this same free will shall bring us back to our true nature, to God, to where we belong.
Yes, it is the sharing of the personal experience that makes God real.
“God simply just keeps emanating his Love so that when I am ready I can also choose to emanate that same Love.” How simple. How true. How powerful.
“I have taken time to listen to my body, so when it is tired I rest rather than listen to my mind, which may tell me I need to keep going.” And the choice to override our bodies is what leads to illness and disease.
Thank you for putting it so simply. What a clever way to take us away from the love of God that we live within and lives inside our every cell. Creating separation at an early level through education of fear.
It is so sinister how so many people have been taught to fear God, to blame him for our choices and the state of the world. God is all loving and consistently emanating love without judgement, so the fear of God is not real but an illusion to disconnect us from Him, to distract us from truth and suppress us to live a lesser way of life constantly governed by fear. Love dissolves fear, when we connect to love, fear cannot exist.
The false image of God which so many people think, is making us do the total opposite than what the truth God presents to us, God is love, and we come from love too. So all that there is about God is giving us the space to come back to this love we are innately so. It is a total opposite to the main religious views, but I have come to find trough feeling for myself that this is the truth.
“So much of what I learnt about God when I was young was not just wrong, but the complete opposite of what I now know to be true. How can this be, that from three different sources I was taught the same mis-truths?” Yes so interesting that so many of us have been taught the complete opposite of what God is. Huge appreciation to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting the truth – which resonated with me so deeply- that I now do know the truth about God.
Of the two versions of God you describe, it’s the one you have discovered for yourself that feels true, real and above all, loving. Who does it serve to represent God as judge and punisher, meeting out conditional love?
How shocking to have been taught that you are a sinner from such an early age. When in truth God does not judge us, he is equally there for us all. If we choose to love ourselves and God, there is a connection that becomes deeper as our relationship with God unfolds.
Not only are we taught false ideas about God from our current mainstream religions, we are also taught false ideas about God in the way our societies are designed, most of our businesses work, in the way we construct houses etc. Everywhere where life is not firstly about people and love we get a false reflection of God.
I love your point about why does God need to give us what we want when he has graced us with the space of free will.
We have the ability to choose what we will have in our lives in every single moment.
We connect to God through our bodies, our way of life and our Love within our hearts. He favours no one over any other, but I feel he is more accessible for those who have made the choice to live His Love and not hold it back.
I appreciate how you have expressed in the paragraph on Love, on what you know about the true nature of Love and God … that no matter what ‘terrible’ things we perceive ourselves as having done, that still ” … God’s Love lives inside me and impulses me to be who I naturally am.” … there’s no getting away from that fact!
I was taught the same thing Judy, and it always puzzled me as to why a God of Love would want to punish anyone and / or send them to hell. It didn’t seem to match up to what I innately felt God to be and yet it took me many decades to finally connect to the truth about God and to begin developing a relationship with God that is first based on developing a relationship with myself.
What a difference it would make if we grow up from the word go knowing and being kept confirmed that we are a Son of God and we are love by nature, instead of believing that we are a sinner and have to work very hard to be good? I feel very much blessed to encounter Universal Medicine who presents this fundamental Truth and makes a very practical, simple, everyday sense of it, so that now I make my own choices from the place of my own connection to God.
These false experiences and learnings about God are very similar to mine growing up. Today I too am grateful to Serge Benhayon for showing all of us that God’s love is within us all equally, patiently waiting to be connected to.
Wow Kate I agree I also learned that God will send us a “saviour” who will rescue us – and this is why I was so angry about him – that he never sent one. That was the reason why I started to think there must be something else because God would never lie. So I agree again it is a convenient way to stay in this subtle trap and wait and choose to not take the responsibility for our own choices.
It’s really huge in society that God does favours for you if you favour God, and that his ways are mysterious so we don’t know why anything happens so we get to blame God for everything! I never understood this either, but even though I didn’t attend institutionalised religious gatherings, these types of harmful beliefs still pervade society and affected me. I really also dislike how they are the experts on God (priests, etc.) when to me a little joyous innocent baby is the one that seems closest to God. I really love this blog, it’s very supportive and confirming.
Thank you for sharing your relationship with God and with yourself, it was a pleasure to read.
I enjoyed reading here how you have regained a relationship with yourself, and through this have found that god is within you.
“I was taught to fear God…” So was I. Although I stopped fearing God a long time ago, when I read this sentence there was a reminder of how could we possibly teach our children to fear something we are all part of. It would be like being fearful of our lungs, our kidneys and our heart – impossible!
‘God can’t grant us anything but offers us all free will’ – the ultimate responsibility lies with us – thank you for this reminder Kate. And now you too are inspiring others to build this intimate relationship with themselves and God – as I am one of them – thank you!
So beautiful!