Living in God's Glory

of religion, people often simply perform a set of actions in a perfunctory, ritualistic, and formal manner. They utter words, but these words do not turn into their heartbeat. They do some physical actions that involve their limbs, but they do not touch their souls. all they do in their ‘busyness’ does not vibrate in their hearts and minds. To be meaningful, our actions must become spiritual experiences for us. They should repeatedly provide our inner being with spiritual nourishment. our physical actions must stir an upheaval in our non-physical selves. only those actions are significant that transform us as a person. in reality, actions that do not transform us have no value. They are like a stone that appears to get wet when water is poured on it but fails to experience the sheer thrill of the quenching of thirst experienced by a person when he drinks a glass of water! FAITH CONQUERS ALL God does test man, but the moment he takes the plunge, God comes forward and saves him. When, in a dream, Prophet abraham saw himself sacrificing his son, he interpreted this as a commandment from God and, without the slightest wavering or hesitation, he decided to carry it out. however, no sooner had he put the knife on his son’s throat than he heard a voice commanding him