It is not really possible to explain what a spiritual relationship with God is like and define it. It takes spiritual experience to know the spiritual. It's about like a cat chasing his tail. You can not get it from the bible, because it is not written to you. I believe it is written to the Holly Spirit who is our translator. We base most of our Christianity on emotion or worldly wisdom of the Bible. The mind can not grasp spiritual concepts, but study enough and it will think it has found spiritual enlightenment. How do we know when the Holy Spirit is speaking to us and not our mind? Two ways I have learned the voice of God by only focusing on thoughts that do not seem to be ones that are logical and by asking god to show me what his voice is like. An example of this in my life was about 15 years ago the singles group I was in at church had decided to go to Cancun for a long weekend. The first night we hit the party seen and everyone was having the time of there life, but I kept having this overwhelming sadness sweeping over me like a wave I would brush it aside and it would come back. It just felt like something very bad had happened. I resolved to disregard it and seek God in the morning about it. I was awakened at dawn and went out to ask God for answers. All I could come up with was something bad was about to happen and I should get ready by grieving with God now. It was another day of this before it happened. Two men on the trip drowned, one of them had been my room mate. I was not overwhelmed with sadness when it happened because I felt like it was out of my system and I knew it was in God’s control. I was free to deal with the tasks at hand and to help the others.
If you read the bible and hear echoes of past Sunday school lessons or sermons then it is probably not the Holy Spirit but your mind. Your mind takes events in life and tries to make them spiritual. Your mind will create spirituality to fell the void and stay in control. God’s wisdom is an uncommon wisdom. His wisdom makes sense, but it is uncommon and often outside of our though patterns.
