In the pursuit of an experience with God, hearing His voice and proving His voice’s reality in your life and by experiencing what He had said is a walk every child of God longs for.

Once a radio owner in Texas told me that he would do anything just to hear the voice of the Lord. I asked him then, “anything?” Already there the discomfort was apparent; yes, he knew that it is not the truth. There was something he could not give up.

We think that we can go any distance in order to experience God in our lives, but we only think it to be so, and with this thinking we try to convince ourselves that it really is so. With this thinking we also imagine outlandish, almost magical tings. This imagining speaks louder than anything else for it speaks of attachments to just the sensational.

When it comes to God a sensationalism-starved mind seeks a fairytale style of experience, and when one experiences something similar the carnal mind, which then immediately begins to downgrade the experience, tries to take over. As a result, one struggles with attachments.

Flesh-attached person prices the flesh. Spirit-attached person values the Spirit. But with God, both cannot coexist, for if they do, then the third realm within each person creates a sensational state of mind, and that realm is the soul-man. The soul-man is predominantly a religious person. Before we can go there we must understand what religion really is.

Religion is a belief in God according to a theology or a dogma, established by a religious establishment.

In the beginning Israel received just the Ten Commandments, which were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. The ark was overlaid with gold for the people to realize that what it had contained was the most precious possession – God’s word. Generally, people are attached to money, which gold represents, so in order to make them realize how voluble God’s word really is, the ark reflected the golden shine. The sunbeam was permitted to fall on the ark so that it might reflect light back it to the people.

Usually man watches the outside while God always looks on the inside. We see the reflection of gold, but He sees just the two tablets of stone. The tablets looked as common rocks. No one attaches any value to common stones, but it was not the stone itself, but what was written on it. The commandments are as God’s ten hints. The ten gates, if you will, to the Kingdom of God.

The surrounding nations carried on with most elaborate—dedicated to many gods—rituals, which were portrayed in stone or wood and often overlaid with gold. Unto those gods they sacrificed livestock and earth’s produce in elaborate ceremonies and processions. In Egypt these were most common, and like the spackled sheep of Jacob, whatever you watch, accordingly you bring forth. The Israelites watched the Egyptians and eventually desired to have a national identity, which in those days was only religious and expressed in ceremonies. Having no image of God was new to them and very hard to accept. Flesh is attracted to flesh just as spirit attracts the Spirit. Jesus made it clearer.

What is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. (John 3: 6)

What man interprets he becomes and Solomon clearly said: as man thinks, within himself, so he is. (Proverbs 23:7)