WHAT IF GOD’S LOVE HAS BEEN THERE ALL ALONG WAITING FOR THE SOUL
Many sincere Christians know this experience, even if they rarely talk about it out loud.
You pray.
You believe.
You seek God honestly.
And yet, the Love you once felt so clearly now seems muted. God does not feel gone, just somehow out of reach.
When that happens, doubt often slips in. Not loud doubt. Quiet doubt. The kind that wonders why prayer feels dry, or why peace does not come the way it once did. And when doubt appears, many people assume something has gone wrong. That they have failed. That God has withdrawn.
But what if that is not what is happening at all?
There is a spiritual truth that gently turns this experience around. God’s Love may still be fully present, even when it is not consciously felt. The absence is not in God. It is not even in the soul. It is in awareness.
The mind, when it fills with doubt, fear, or conflicting beliefs, can act like a covering. Not a wall that pushes God away, but a veil that keeps the soul’s light from shining into conscious experience. The Love remains. But when it is veiled, the joy that naturally flows from it cannot rise into feeling.
This explains something many believers struggle to name. Why faith can still be real, yet Love feels distant. Why belief remains strong, yet the heart feels weary.
The reason is that the mind and the soul do not always move together.
The mind wants certainty. Proof. Explanations.
The soul responds to trust. Longing. Surrender.
As long as we live on earth, there can be a quiet struggle between the two. Not a battle of good and evil, but a tension between thinking and knowing.
Over time, as beliefs soften and come into harmony with what the soul already knows, the struggle eases. Doubt loses its grip. The mind grows quieter. Eventually, it no longer resists the soul’s awareness of God’s Love, but rests within it.
This offers a gentle hope to anyone who has felt spiritually dry. It suggests that God has not stepped away. That Love has not been withdrawn. That what feels lost may simply be waiting for the noise of doubt to quiet.
So perhaps the question is not, Where did God go?
Perhaps the better question is this.
What if God’s Love has been there all along, waiting for the soul to be heard above the mind?
TGRABJ V1, 241
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