But when he had entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can heal you?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, let it be done to you.”
Every person has their own personal faith. There is no such thing as no faith, because even an unbeliever believes that there is no God. However, the following texts deal with spiritual and religious faith. In this, everyone shapes their own individual spiritual path. Whether this leads to a goal depends mostly on the intention of the believer. Do they really want to enter into divine truth? Is religion just a hobby? Do they believe out of tradition and habit? Do spirituality and religion serve spiritual self-gratification? – and thus become self-deception. Or do they use God to enrich themselves earthly?
Throughout human history, all kinds of forms and variations of religiosity have emerged: There is dead faith in the worship of the divine name. There is vain faith in the playgrounds of spiritual self-love and self-expression. There is the enthusiastic faith that, far from any depth or truthfulness, adulates itself with songs and dances of bliss. There are the charismatics who conjure up a God of sensations with spectacular laying on of hands and strange speaking in tongues. There are expressive television preachers who impress their viewers and listeners above all with grand words and gestures. There are various fanatical sects that claim salvation only for themselves and condemn all those of other faiths to hell. , there is asceticism, whose followers seek salvation by fleeing the world and humanity. And so, in the jungle of superstition, there are all kinds of dubious associations whose members and followers strive for spiritual and religious satisfaction of their earthly personalities rather than the realization of their divine identity. In all these groups there are children of God whom the Father will still lead onto the right path. Only when they realize their error or presumption will true faith begin for them.
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A person is spiritually dead if their faith does not correspond to the truth, or if it is not brought to life through personal love for God in their heart and the actions that result from it.
Many religious communities feed on poisoned food. This has arisen through the falsification of God’s Word, through the adaptation of spiritual messages to the beliefs of the mind, but above all through the claims to authority of self-righteous religious leaders. The spiritual plants that thrive in the parched and poisoned soil of such religious blindness yield inedible and spoiled fruit for the soul. Thus, even sincere seekers of God are led astray and wonder why the heavenly Father remains distant from them and why His life is not realized in them.
Only when one detaches oneself from false religious views and ideas, asks God openly for guidance, and entrusts oneself to Him with confidence, does one enter the redeeming field of faith. Divine life manifests itself in the works of charity that unfold within and from this field. Only such true devotion opens a dwelling place for the Father in the heart of his child. Only then does his word fulfill itself and bestow food and drink from heaven.
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The members of some religious associations know the Bible inside and out and are seriously committed to the Word of God. They firmly believe in the biblical events, they believe in heaven and hell, they acknowledge Jesus’ miracles and his resurrection. However, they cling to the letter of the law, for the language of the Spirit is foreign to them. Their original good intentions have become frozen in empty words and give birth to the most absurd views and a self-righteous fanaticism that makes childlike love for the Father impossible. In their blindness, they condemn anyone who does not profess their beliefs. They make
God into a merciless and cruel judge who banishes all alleged sinners to hell, where they must remain for eternity. As a result, these supposed servants of God have themselves become prisoners of their own satanic legislation.
Divination is attributed solely to the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostles and evangelists of the New Testament. But especially for the present time, Jesus Christ has sent prophets and proclaimers to earth to warn and awaken humanity. The Bible is claimed to be the only true word of God, and every other word of God is denounced as the work of demonic powers. But why should the Father not communicate with his children directly, but only through intermediaries? And only in the past? What kind of cruel father would that be, earthly speaking, who does not speak to his children personally – and after a certain time, not at all? It is the Father’s greatest joy to talk to his children heart to heart and to introduce them to the secrets of his creation and love!
These self-proclaimed “Christians” have already dug their graves with their belief in the past. They should not be surprised when God one day has to say to them: “I never knew you; depart from Me, you evildoers! I was
hungry, and you did not feed Me. I was thirsty, and you did not give Me drink.”
But what is the Father’s hunger and thirst? It is his longing for a loving relationship with his children, but also his desire for them to love one another. Many “believers” have never truly known God, let alone loved him, which is why they have been unable to find their way into his heart and from there into the hearts of their brothers and sisters.
Overall, it can be said that the path of living faith is not only a narrow one in the inner turning away from the fallen world, it also represents a dangerous tightrope walk in the extremes of fanatical religiosity especially here, pride, lust for power, and self-righteousness have led to inhumane conditions and cruel dictatorships—life in the spirit world, which only takes on divine form in serving love, and the self-serving escape from the world and humanity, which does not allow compassion and understanding in its theoretical-religious egocentricity. This path can only be walked safely with the hand of our heavenly Father, full of trust in his guidance and his unconditional love.
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True Faith
Many “believers” say they believe in a God—but their entire belief consists of proclaiming this verbally. They believe that somewhere, perhaps or probably or even almost certainly, there is a God, but that He is unapproachable and unattainable—possibly after death. They also believe that only specially chosen and gifted individuals such as the Pope or (by him appointed) saints can come close to God and live in communion with him. Yet every human being can, may, and should live in intimate union with God! These believers sleep soundly, finding in church ceremonies the perfect sleeping pill for their theoretical and dubious religiosity.
Jesus says, “If you believe, you can move mountains; you can do even greater things than I have done.”
Faith means living in God, entering into a loving relationship with your Creator and Father in Jesus Christ, and thereby becoming partaker of His divinity. In living faith, the human blind will enters into the divine will, which is the foundation and elementary substance of both the material and spiritual creation. This faith can work miracles, for in it man has become one with the basic force of all life, which creates and sustains. This is true faith, the realization of which is the desire and goal of our heavenly Father: His children should rule the universe with him and through him, should be able to act freely in his love, for he gave and gives them everything he himself has and is. This is his joy, this is his will, this is his eternal bliss.
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The further one progresses on the path of truth, the clearer one realizes why there have been so few true Christians throughout history and why there are so few today. Serious faith requires determination and courage
. Letting go of the illusory reality and living a life of love, fought for and lived with a devoted heart in the challenges of everyday life, does not happen by chance and is by no means a sure-fire success.
A wise man once said to his disciple: “To attain divine life, you must struggle for it with the same strength with which you would fight for breath if you were drowning!”
Are there such people in Christian churches and communities? Who truly loves God above all else and, as a result, loves their neighbor as themselves? Who struggles and fights with all their strength for God’s presence? Who is determined to go further than their faith can see? Who receives all their days and nights from the hand of our heavenly Father? Who is willing to give their life for Jesus Christ ? And who, in their zeal, does not become an all-converting and all-determining fanatic, but lives their faith in love and patience, always carrying out the recognized divine will?
There are religions such as Hinduism and Islam in which family, culture, and society are fundamentally shaped by faith and whose members have dedicated themselves to their god in life and death. In the hands of insane believers, however, the prophetic words of the founders of these religions became satanic instruments of power that blinded the hearts of their followers.
In Buddhism, too, people live an intense faith, which, with few exceptions, is not fanatical. Here we see that the willpower of the soul is sufficient to a certain extent to reveal love and peace through contemplation in spiritual realms. But a blissful life at the hand of our heavenly Father is not to be found here, for Buddhism is a religion of self-salvation. There is no God in it.
(NB: To those who, out of consideration for people of other faiths, find it unfair, even presumptuous, that the Christian God should be the only true God and therefore equate all religions, let it be said: there are only the possibilities of incarnation caused by spiritually lost humanity, therefore not every soul can be Christian. A loving person who, due to their cultural or religious affiliation, cannot find access to Jesus Christ will surely meet him soon in the hereafter. As in all matters of life, one can confidently trust the Father here as well. He cares for each of his children as if they were his only child in infinity.
As a Christian, you have the opportunity to meet your heavenly Father here and now in your heart—do so, for that was and is your purpose for this earthly life. And it has been so since your beginning, when you stepped out of God’s immeasurable abundance and became a self-aware and self-determined being, to love Him with your whole being and to live with Him and in Him for eternity.
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Jesus Christ is the only God, and there is no other. But he looks only at love and not at religious affiliation. Whether a person is Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, or belongs to another faith, it depends solely on the state of their heart whether the Father can touch them and lead them home or not. Thus, every person filled with love, regardless of religion, culture, or worldview, is unconsciously following Jesus. Here, Christian tolerance toward those of other faiths is appropriate, but in the sense of respecting the faith of one’s neighbor in the freedom of his will and not in recognizing, let alone approving, his erroneous knowledge of God. There are many paths to God, but only one path with God. He understandingly guides each person according to their learned faith or unbelief, whether in this world or the next. It often takes a long time before Jesus Christ can reveal himself to his child as the one true God, which sometimes only happens at the gates of heaven. In the awareness that his God and Creator stands before him in person, any remaining error instantly falls away from him. The joy in the ensuing embrace knows no bounds. Here is the final home of God’s child, here he finds true fulfillment and bliss.
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Spiritual enlightenment and spiritual rebirth
Many enlightened beings say that there is no path. One is always timelessly present and was never separated from the ‘higher self’ – and in it and from it from all life. Yogis, gurus, and so-called spiritual masters teach the necessary letting go of the illusory ego by immersing oneself in emptiness and silence, in which cosmic consciousness unfolds, so that human beings may receive the fullness of all being. But this gift of awakening with insight into the timelessness of the soul is extremely rare and cannot be brought about. If it happens, the radical letting go of the earthly mind occurs under the strangest circumstances, usually as a result of extraordinary suffering. However, there is no recipe or exercise for this.
When a person experiences such liberation, it is usually based on prenatal preparation. Almost always, these are beings from the light worlds who are accomplishing their free divine sonship here. In Eastern religions, they sometimes become highly respected spiritual teachers. However, the spiritual nourishment they offer to believers hungry for love and light is usually influenced by the respective culture and basic religious beliefs, or, due to universal cosmic awareness, does not contain any direct reference to God. They do not yet know a Father God and therefore cannot convey him.
On closer inspection, however, the insights of many spiritual teachers from the East appear to be very traditional. In the Light of the Father, it is evident that a somewhat complacent and contradictory philosophy of enlightenment has emerged here, which has now also gained a foothold in the Western world. Many people born into Christianity have sought salvation in Far Eastern teachings, which is understandable given the institutional faith conveyed by the churches. The serious seeker of meaning and God wants more than rote words in tedious ceremonies and the prospect of a Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant afterlife after death. But no one is born a Christian by chance. By converting to Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, or turning to alternative spiritual (belief) teachings, one fails to live up to one’s spiritual potential. Jesus Christ alone is the way, the truth, and the life. And the best way to find him is without a religious-institutional hierarchy, for he truly dwells in the heart of every human being.
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Teaching the possibility of (spontaneous) enlightenment through meditation techniques poses a great danger to the spiritual seeker, as he hopes to attain complete freedom within a very short time and not have to follow the path of active love for God and neighbor. Or, in their spiritual complacency, they immediately adopt the statement that basically everything is divine anyway, since God is everything in everything, so strictly speaking there is no imperfection, therefore one is always in God and therefore cannot actually do anything wrong (except others, of course).
This is a good example of how truth, when placed in false contexts or applied at an illegitimate stage of development, serves satanic interests. Such perspectives on enlightenment would certainly be in keeping with the times, but God does not follow the trends of the zeitgeist. In order to lead humanity back to perfection, Jesus Christ did not provide a path accessible to all people for nothing. On this path, development and knowledge occur step by step and stage by stage.
Many seekers of truth are caught up in the expectation of sudden awakening, yet they wait in vain. Or they become attached to the intellectually appealing idea of a lasting enlightenment based on a temporary spiritual high, which for many provides a rotten foundation for lifelong self-deception.
Of the tens of millions of listeners and followers of various spiritual teachings, there have been and continue to be hardly any real liberations. Often, students bask in the light fields of consciousness of their masters, who spread a gradual state of bliss in their outer spheres of life according to their capacity for love. In this case, it is not uncommon for a cult of personality to develop, with the teacher at the center—and not God. Then, unfortunately, it sometimes happens that the master, in arrogance and self-love, falls short of his spiritual responsibility and uses his followers for his own interests. Such conditions can be found in all kinds of religious institutions and communities.
But even some teachers who remain true to their awakened consciousness are stuck in the process of spiritual transformation. In the radiance of divine light, they recognize themselves in the unity of all being. In practice, this means that the soul has seen through or even penetrated the veil that separates it from the universal spirit. Thus, the intellectual ego is transcended and enlightened. The human being becomes aware that it only exists as a consciousness separated from all existence in its imagination or spiritual blindness – and thus finds an insight, albeit often culturally influenced, into the spiritual unity of all being. It is difficult to provide guidance to students trapped in worldly understanding so that they too may experience liberation, because for the enlightened there is no egocentric ego that can follow instruction. The listener can only grasp the states suggested to them theoretically and thus has no way of experiencing awakening themselves. However, the universal consciousness of enlightened masters is only an initial step on the divine path. Contact with the cosmic spirit is the beginning of a living experience of God; one is still far from arriving at the place from wh . Only in devotion to our heavenly Father can true awakening take place on the foundation of God’s personal love. Here, the child is indeed deified. Here, it lives in communion with the visible God, Jesus Christ, from whose heart the rays of love enliven and fill infinity.
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The preceding texts are in no way intended to diminish the value of denominational and interdenominational faith communities. All over the world there are small islands of love where true joy and peace can be found, where selfless charity is practiced with an open heart. Some of these people are already living in the way that the world’s population will live together after the renewal of the earth. Nor should the original Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic wisdom and love be diminished here, which represent a necessary light in cultures that have fallen into superstition and fanaticism. Enlightened souls such as Paramahansa Yogananda, Sri Aurobindo, Krishnamurti, Rumi, and Thich Nhat Hanh, who is still in the body, gave and continue to give living testimony of love and wisdom. Ramana Maharshi, who found Jesus Christ in the world beyond, is the spiritually active apostle of our time. He cares for awakening disciples of the end times and gives them light and love from the heart of Jesus. He has accompanied me since my awakening.
Sadhu Sundar Singh occupies a special position. Born and raised in a strict Hindu family, he converted to Christianity and became a true apostle of Jesus Christ while still on earth.
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