Reply To: Seek Ye The Kingdom of God

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Reply To: Seek Ye The Kingdom of God

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September 9, 2017 at 12:45 pm #4911

Florence

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When I started to participate at Plainfield I was searching for a deeper relationship with God Emphasis added.

Yes, this searching is going on the world over, even for those who seem to have “everything.” If God is Infinite and we are His reflection it is clear we cannot be satisfied with anything finite including our knowledge of who we are.

Thus we read in the Lesson:
SH 257 Who hath found finite life or love sufficient to meet the demands of human want and woe, — to still the desires, to satisfy the aspirations? Infinite Mind cannot be limited to a finite form, or Mind would lose its infinite character as inexhaustible Love, eternal Life, omnipotent Truth.
8. 258: 3-6, Hence the unsatisfied human craving for something better, higher, holier, than is afforded by a material belief in a physical God and man.

From Webster’s 1828: FI’NITE, adjective [Latin finitus, from finio, to finish, from finis, limit.] Having a limit; limited; bounded; opposed to infinite, as finite number, finite existence; applied to this life, we say, a finite being, finite duration.
Hence we seek and find God, find our true selves and are satisfied.