The Taste of Getting Close

The Taste of Getting Close

A person should taste and savour getting close to God! The time of the Month of Ramadan is an opportunity for getting close to God. Living while being close to God is a different life. After getting close to God, a person lives differently. He’ll lose his own self.

It is as if a person decides to rise up, just like that. Gravity is constantly pulling! But, he is constantly overcoming it and going up. Getting close to God is a special environment and place, and it creates a sensation. There is a difference between a person who is close to God and one who isn’t! He is God. It’s no joke!

If your repentance is accepted, you’ll get close. If you have the intention to do your deeds because of God, you’ll get close to Him. If you are careful not to displease Him, you’ll get close to Him. If you get upset because you have displeased Him and become separated from Him in a moment of neglect, you’ll get close to Him.

And, you yourself will understand that you have become close! I don’t want to say something unreal. I want to say that the soldiers understood this during the wartime. I saw that soldiers understood this. This was their game, entertainment and avocation. They were very busy getting close to God. They were careful not to move away from God. They recited God’s Names to reach that joy, which they had experienced at the peak of being close to God.

We SHOULD experience it! We SHOULD experience getting close to God! We SHOULD see its effects on our soul, body, and all of our movements! We should see that our prayer has changed! We will cry to God so much and beg Him to experience it.

We SHOULD get close! There is no other way. Should I postpone getting close? Now that I’m a better person, I don’t get close to Him. Later when I have become a worse person and moved away, I want to get close? This is not something to put for later.

God has provided an area for us to do trade. He says, “Do all of your deeds because of Me. I’ll buy them from you. I’ll bring you close to Myself.” A person would have to be like an animal to say no to God!

“God, I’m not in the mood now. I want to sleep.” God says, “Sleep because of Me.” We don’t listen to Him in the other 11 months. Then, the Almighty God says, “I’ll force you to taste this experience (during this month).” So, what does He do?

The Month of Ramadan. You get sleepy and hungry. God says, “This servant’s sleep is bringing him close to Me.” After you wake up, you have a good spiritual frame of mind. When you wake up at other times, you’re lethargic, and you see that you have become distanced. Breathing is like repeating His Names (in this month).

Your mouth smells bad since you’re fasting because of God. God says, “Your mouth smells bad because of Me.” “God! I didn’t do this by my own will. It smells bad itself.” “That’s fine. It smells bad because of Me. You fasted because of Me. This is the best perfume.” And, you see that the bad smell of your mouth has made you close to God and luminous. What should He do with you? How should He hug you tightly by force?

Ramadan is an opportunity for getting close to God. What an opportunity!

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