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Dear Lord, Tim: you take me back to my very first encounter with God, not long after I was Born Again in 1981. Minding my own business in my sitting room I suddenly had a vision of Jesus, standing before a gate in a walled garden, as in Holman Hunt’s painting. He opened the door and ushered me through but I was reluctant to leave Him. He insisted, so I entered. I was immediately aware that I was in the centre of a VAST presence, then aware That someone in Tokyo or on Mars would also feel he was in the middle of God. Previously I had a mathematical understanding of infinity as the figure of 8 symbol, meaning that Macrocosm went round in a Vast circle, eventually returning to travel as microcosm in another, lower, circle before returning. But this “infinity” which surrounded me went on and on and on in all compass directions - NEVER ENDING! I was aware that every emotion, experience, piece of knowledge that I ever had was multiplied in this Being to the power of this new meaning of infinity. I was also aware that I not only could but HAD TO put my total trust in this Being, this God. As a child I was taught to, and did, FEAR God, but now all I could feel was enormous love and comfort.I don’t disagree with any of this, and consider myself born again when I made my confession of 37 years.
Every time I pray, I start off by placing myself in God’s presence by recognizing that he surrounds me like water surrounds a fish or air surrounds a bird, that he is in heaven listening to my words and my thoughts and knows them before I think them, and that he is inside of me, just as he promised.
-Tim-
The very next day God came and sat on the arm of my chair and said, “tell Me about it, Son, and by the way, call Me Abba!” I wept as I considered that that VAST all-powerful, all-mighty, all-everything incomprehensible God had condensed Himself into a Being that my tiny mind COULD comprehend! Praise, praise, PRAISE God!