Episode 9 -- Treatise on Peace of Soul c7.3 -- Seeking God on His Terms

Besides the intellectual pursuit of God, how else do we look for Him?

In this episode we will finish reading chapter 7 of A Treatise on Peace of Soul. Besides the intellectual pursuit of God, we must look for him by meditation, prayer, and reading. But when we find him, when He communicates Himself to us, we must stop and enjoy His presence. We need to look for Him according to His path for us and His plans for us. We must be on guard against creating imaginary obligations that do not actually lead us to God. Only by following the path He gives us individually will we find true peace of soul.

We saw last episode that the soul can and should look for God by an intellectual pursuit. God gave us minds to know the truth. We should seek to know and to understand the highest truths, the truths about God. We honour Him by using the intellectual abilities that He gave us. You will know the truth, Jesus said, and the truth will set you free. Knowing truths about God sets us free from idols that we have created and from false ideas of God we have learned from others and our upbringing. But we search for God to find Him. We are made to enjoy the presence of the Lord!