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The things of God are difficult for us to understand because of us, not God. We (Mankind) has chosen to go his own way rather than follow in the will of God, so we have become alienated by God and we do not understand God nor do we hear him.
As you are most likely aware God has reached out to Man by sending his only begotten son to this world to die the death of a sinner in order to pay the price for our penalty, namely death.
So yes the things of God are difficult, if not impossible to fathom, with our human spirit as the following scriptures points out.
1
Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the
man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except
the Spirit of God.
1
Corinthians 2:14
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things
that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot
understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
So yes it is impossible to know God in our own spirit, but if we have the Spirit of the Living God inside us, then we can know the One True God.
In order to be filled with God's Spirit we must be in a state of repentance, that is to discontinue with living a life of sin. When we have done this, we will still sin as our sinful nature is still with us (till we die), but we will also be able to live in righteousness through the Spirit. We must also believe that Jesus Christ is from God and that he is God's Son. In this, he (Jesus) presents us to his God as holy and blameless.
In order to accept salvation from God through Christ, you can confess with your speech that Jesus is the Christ and that he was raised from the dead. To confirm this, you should be baptized in Jesus name by another believer.
You can only know God if his Spirit lives in you, and for his Holy Spirit to live in you, you must be holy and without sin. This is only made possible by your sin being taken away by Christ. It is in Christ's righteousness that you can live.
Some say that "saying you should have faith without proof is like sending money to a mail order ad promising riches"
But God has given us great proof that he exists.
Rom1:19-20
it says: "For what can be known about God is evident
to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal
power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he
has made. As a result they have no excuse."
The evidence that there is a God is absolutely conclusive. Only a fool could say that there is no God with all the proof that is around him.
As it says in Psalms
14:1:
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God..."
So mankind suffers and finds it hard to understand the things of God because we (man) have chosen our own path and the only path that leads to life, peace and love is narrow, but there are many who choose the wide path to destruction. So to eliminate suffering for sins sake, we need to walk on the straight and narrow. Of course in this world there is no guarantee that everything will be rosy, because we share this planet with murderes, theives, liars, adulterers and slanderers. But we can eliminate the consequenses of our own sin by confessing our sins to God and he will forgive us. Paradise is in the next life where no murderer, liar or thief will be able to enter.
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