I just want to get close to God! | Ali Reza Panahian
I just want to get close to God!
Someone said, “O Prophet of God, I helped you in the desert.” The Prophet (s) said, “Ask, and I will give it to you.” He said, “Let me think.” He left, thought, and came back. He said, “I want to be at your level in Heaven.” He said the best thing. The Prophet (s) asked him one thing, “Did you think about it yourself? Or, did someone help you?”
If he had said, “someone helped me”, the Prophet (s) wouldn’t have accepted it. The man said, “I thought about it myself.” The Prophet (s) asked, “Explain how you came to this result?” The Prophet (s) knew he was saying the truth; but, the man had to reach this result by himself.
He said, “I thought that whatever I get from you in this world will be destroyed. In the Hereafter, God will give you the best place. I want that. No position is higher than yours.” The prophet said, “I accept. I will take you.” Because that man had thought about it.
I want to talk simply. After you think, you will come to one result. Although, this may seem like a slogan in this meeting. After you think, you will see that the most valuable thing, which you should choose for your goal, is to meet God in the best situation. Just think! Only your own thinking can rescue you.
“We thought and realized it is great to have these enjoyments.” “No, you haven’t thought about it yet. Give yourself time. Think.” Why has God created me? To enjoy what? How does he want to fill me with joy? Is it possible He put the desire for joy in me but won’t fill me with it? Not only is this below God’s dignity, it is unjust. Is it possible that God doesn’t give me the greatest excitement when He has put the desire for it in me? How will He do that? With something less than Himself? What you must choose for your goal is to get close to God. Nothing else is important. “I just want to get close to You.”
If you think a little more, other things will happen too. This becomes your only goal. If you think even more, something else will happen too. You will become in love with this goal. It is not under your control either. It is not based on people’s tastes either. At first we think and choose a goal. When we have chosen a goal it will be, “I want to get close to God.” I don’t want anything else. I just want to get close to God. Nothing else is important to me.
Think and come to this point that you say, “I just have one goal in life, to get close to God, and nothing else is important to me.” I’m studying. Does that help me to get close to You? I’m smiling. Does that help me to get close to You? Choose a high goal for your life, which is nothing but to reach to God. But, don’t take it from me.
If all the 124,000 prophets (a) tell you that this is the goal, it is worthless unless you think about it yourself and find it. Just think! Only your own thinking can rescue you.
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