by Francis Fenelon (Chapter 21 in Christian Classics, Fenelon, Talking with God, by Francois Fenelon. Modern English Version by Hal M. Helms. Paraclete Press, Brewster, Massachusetts, 1997.)
Our God is not Flat Stanley. Have you ever wondered why your God seems so blah? Read on and practice the presence of God in the inner sanctuary! Wow!
Our God is not Flat Stanley. Have you ever wondered why your God seems so blah? Read on and practice the presence of God in the inner sanctuary! Wow!
The Interior Voice of the Spirit
It is certain from the Holy Scriptures that the Spirit of God dwells within us. There he acts, there he prays without ceasing, groans, desires, and asks for us what we do not know how to ask for ourselves. The Spirit urges us on, animates us, speaks to us when we are silent, suggests to us all truth, and so unites us to him that we become one spirit. (1 Cor. 6:17)
That is the teaching of faith, and even those teachers farthest removed from the interior life cannot avoid acknowledging it to be so. To be sure, there are some who strive to maintain that in practice, we are illuminated by external law, or by the light of learning and reason, and that then our understanding acts of itself from that instruction. They do not rely sufficiently on upon the interior Teacher, the Holy Spirit, who does everything within us. We could not form a thought or desire without him. Alas, what blindness is ours! We suppose ourselves alone in the inner sanctuary, when God is more intimately present there than we are ourselves.
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