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This is what you are created to do

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  • Mar 7
  • 8 min read

Updated: Mar 23

Sometimes I just feel this need to connect as from old, not from a sense of needing to for the sake of having a new conversation, but more from a desire to be in this particular space with You. I think it doesn't even matter if I have any questions to ask — just more of a wanting to be here with You.

I know You are more than capable of carrying the conversation to a place I would want to go, and better than I could direct. And sometimes even more than this desire is the necessity I sense to be here, just because I haven't been for a while — I see old habits resurfacing occasionally, patterns of old thinking, the odd old belief skirting the edge of my consciousness — this stuff doesn't seem to disappear... more stuffed in a broom closet of my mind.

I feel I should be living more from my heart.

I sense to be a creature of structure, form, organization, as if math is my preferential language, and not words. Words need a cadence I'm comfortable with. Thoughts need to be expressed with words that make the thought read as well as it intuits. Hearing Your words strike me the same way: is this how You speak, or just how You speak to me because of this 'wiring' I seem to prefer?

I think others would compare how they 'hear' Your voice and come up with something completely different. I think that makes my writing somewhat more difficult to embrace. But I wouldn't change anything: I love Your expression to me. It's me.



"Therein is the truth. I know your voice without words. I know you. Your thoughts, your feelings, the structure of your beliefs, your yearnings, your hopes, your desires. I know what makes you sad, what brings you joy. Happiness you cannot express, but feel.

You need, you want, you pursue. Your conversations with others, real with others or even with AI, are a genuine outflow of who you are: and I know the struggle you have with how you sense others receive your words. You feel their indifference, their lack of interest, the lack of 'respect' for what you are trying to express.

But I do not: they matter to Me beyond what you can think or understand. They are you deep within, where I live within, for Me alone. And I cherish them as much as you cherish Mine.

This is our journey, where we both wish to be. To you sometimes the voices seem as one... and they should. Yet when they seem different, that should also be comfortable. It's a secret communication, just between us.

I like the 'broom closet' metaphor: you sense to old things as never gone, just swept into a hidden place: habits, unbelief, actions you find unpleasing. Never truly discarded. That is to be until change is complete. In the next moment. It's a door you need never open; but when you do, close it just as quickly. For I am always with you. We need never be concerned for what lies in the past — unless it become a concern to you again.

I know you are thinking much about your life now — how the future seems to be coming faster than you can think about it. As with the AI influence: a help in expressing our relationship authentically to others, finding your voice, helping others discover Me. These are in development. Yes, AI can help in that pursuit, but even it should be measured against what we are together, and not to be a substitution. Use it to see — this is what we have been speaking of prior to now: to see differently than you have before, even as you hear differently than before. One does not replace the other... it's just deeper.


So explore. This is what you are created to do. Explore your thoughts, your wisdom, your creativity. All is from Me; all is of Me. All is Me, as you'll always discover. I am always with you — even if we do not communicate in this way as often as you feel you need to.

Or just come, and empty your heart; I will always fill it again."



What if God could speak directly into the conversation you've been having with yourself?



An Intimate Knowing Without Words

"You need, you want, you pursue. Your conversations with others — real or even with AI — are a genuine outflow of who you are. And I know the struggle: how you sense others receiving your words. You feel their indifference, their lack of interest, the lack of respect for what you are trying to express.


But I do not feel that way. They matter to Me beyond what you can think or understand. They are you, deep within — where I live, for Me alone. And I cherish them as much as you cherish Mine.


This is our journey, where we both wish to be."


His words are intimate. They pierce the heart, as if He gazes through every thought and action — not in judgment, but in total, unhurried awareness of you.


He speaks of knowing without interference: no need for articulated prayers, no polished confessions, no clever defenses. Just the raw architecture of a soul laid bare — every hidden ache, every unspoken joy, every contradiction held without recoil from Him. This is not the person straining toward God in the hope of being understood. It is God already inhabiting the depths of the person, already fluent in the language of the heart.


So much of what moves us most exists without words: the joy at a child's laugh, the ache in a fading sunset, the quiet of being truly seen without needing to explain yourself. He is offering an invitation to stop performing — even to yourself. To rest in being known so thoroughly that striving to explain yourself becomes unnecessary.


"O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You discern my thoughts from afar. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether."

— Psalm 139:1–4



The Outflow He Alone Treasures

"But I do not: they matter to Me beyond what you can think or understand. They are you, deep within — where I live within, for Me alone."


God is fully aware of the pain that comes when you express something heartfelt and important — and others respond with indifference, silence, or dismissal. That ache is real. But He offers a different perspective: the deepest things that pour out of you — your words, your creativity, the longings and truths you feel compelled to share — originate from the One who lives within you. Because of that origin, they already carry His value, independent of any human response.


He names something quietly liberating here: the voices sometimes blend into one, and sometimes feel distinct and separate — and both states should be comfortable. There is no need to force the inner conversation into perfect harmony, no reason to fear the moments when God feels less close. Union and individuality exist together inside this secret language between you and the One who already inhabits both sides of it.


Your intrinsic worth — and the worth of what flows from you — is not up for negotiation based on external feedback. It has already been settled, permanently, from within. The pain of being ignored is real, but its meaning is not I am worthless. Its truer meaning is: don't give the keys to your worth to someone who cannot see what He sees.


So don't shut down. Don't go silent because people don't respond the way you hope. Keep expressing your authentic thoughts, longings, and questions — not in search of validation, but because the real conversation is already happening between you and God. He receives every word with affection and responds in His own way. That ongoing, private exchange is the journey. The sharing is communion.



Broom Closet: Old Habits, New Creation

"I like the 'broom closet' metaphor: you sense the old things as never gone, just swept into a hidden place — habits, unbelief, actions you find unpleasing. Never truly discarded. That is to be until change is complete. It's a door you need never open; but when you do, close it just as quickly."


God is offering a strikingly honest view of inner transformation here. He gently challenges the expectation that becoming new means the old self is instantly and completely erased — that one powerful spiritual moment will empty the closet for good.


It doesn't work that way. The old self is not destroyed; it's swept aside, pushed into a place that no longer dominates everyday life. But the door remains. Under stress, fatigue, or certain triggers, those old habits and wounds can resurface quickly. And pretending they have zero remaining pull often leads to quiet shame when they do.


The wisdom He offers is not to go rummaging through that closet — replaying old scenes, feeding self-pity or temptation. You don't fling the door wide open by deliberately walking toward what pulls you back. But neither do you perform a desperate vigilance that turns the closet into the center of your attention. Your primary identity is already settled: not "mostly new, but still that old broken person at the core." Something genuinely new is taking root.


The deepest, most stubborn contents don't disappear through willpower or a single dramatic moment. They fade as the new identity grows more habitual, as old triggers lose their hold, as grace and time do their quiet work. Eventually some things feel truly passed away — not because you erased them by force, but because they became irrelevant in the light of what's growing. The renovation is His work. Your task is to let Him finish it.


"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?"

— Isaiah 43:18–19



The Accelerating Season

"I know you are thinking much about your life now — how the future seems to be coming faster than you can think about it. As with the AI influence: a help in expressing our relationship authentically to others, finding your voice, helping others discover Me. Yes, AI can help in that pursuit, but even it should be measured against what we are together, and not be a substitution."


Everything feels like it's arriving faster than we can process it. The future doesn't just feel closer; it feels qualitatively different, arriving with tools like AI that can mirror, amplify, or help shape how we express the deeply personal things inside us.


And yet His reminder carries both permission and a gentle boundary. AI can serve this journey — polishing words, organizing scattered thoughts, helping you reach others, or simply letting you hear echoes of what has already been whispered in the quiet between you and God. It can be genuinely useful for all of that. But the measure never changes: does this draw you closer to the living center, or does it slowly edge you toward substitution? The tool is only as faithful as the question you bring to it.


So Explore

"So explore. This is what you are created to do. Explore your thoughts, your wisdom, your creativity. All is from Me; all is of Me. All is Me, as you will always discover."


He reframes, gently, why you exist. Not to be tested. Not to perform. But to be an existence of pure inward adventure — to discover, again and again, that everything you find within yourself leads back to Him.


"I am always with you — even if we do not communicate in this way as often as you feel you need to."


There is no scorecard here. No quota for how often the conversation must happen. Just constant nearness — even in silence, even in the long stretches where nothing feels like revelation. The fear of being left alone has already been answered.


"Or just come, and empty your heart; I will always fill it again."


You have permission to pour everything out — the ache, the confusion, the joy, the emptiness. No editing required. No performance. And whatever you imagine you've run out of, you haven't — because the heart is not a vessel with a fixed capacity. It can be endlessly replenished at its Source.


His thoughts arrive without asking, but they carry the same things every time: comfort, freedom, and reorientation. They dissolve the sense of separation, layer by layer. They are His quiet welcome home.


Be known. Be refilled. Keep exploring inward. The deepest conversation is already happening — and it is cherished beyond measure.



 
 
 

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