Spring 2003
Personally Knowing God
Maurice Lindsay

God … has become the totality of my existence. He works with me daily. Everything that I do has a beginning, an existence, and an end, all of which is God.

“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all
things; to Him be the Glory forever.” Rom 11:36.

Through the early years of my spiritual life, I learned that simplicity is the key to knowing God. As you began to read, I stated, “God,” then a period of silence. Now, I have said all that ever need be said.

Our problem is that we seldom take time to listen. Listening is far more important than speaking. When we speak, it should be to say something that we have first “listened” to hear. “I know that You hear me always.”

The first important fact concerning “simplicity” is the necessity of one. In algebra, anything reduced to its lowest term is one; that is, one is absolute as concerns position. The “Godhead” consists of three individual persons. These three must be reduced to the lowest term, which is ONE.

In the Godhead there can be no difference, schism, confusion, or any such thing. Every thought or action will be as of ONE. The fact that changed me so, was the reduction to a least term, as to God. I liked the word “Father,” for all the thoughts and pleasures of having a Father, such as God, are clear in my mind, and roll smoothly off my tongue. The Jews used “Abba” when they prayed, and obtained a feeling of protection and authoritative concern.

When I discovered the secret of simplicity, I found that reducing a name to its simplest term was tantamount to understanding the depths in God, which simplicity opens to the heart and mind. The term with which I address God is the
shortest word that will convey the proper meaning – “God.”

At all times, my mind is full of the word, “God.” Every thought, concern, and action; every moment must filter through that one name – “God.” It takes practically no time at all to speak, or to think it, but it means everything there is to mean. God is readily available, when I call upon the “One” who is all in all. He is everywhere at any given moment, and to me, a present reality.

When anything touches my life, be it good or bad, I say “Thank You, God.” When anyone asks concerning this, I respond that God is the ONE who is greater than all else, and I am totally fulfilled and satisfied in Him.