GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast
GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast
236. From God to Jerry To You- How To Hear God’s Call In Your Own Life
In this episode of From God To Jerry To You, we explore the moment that changed everything: when Jerry heard God's voice for the first time. What began as a private prayer became a divine calling—“Tell My Story.”
But what does that mean in a world of many religions, traditions, and truths?
Jerry shares how God's message was not confined to one faith or one people, but revealed in different ways across history and cultures.
From ancient Israel to India, from sacred texts to personal moments of clarity, divine Reality calls to each of us uniquely.
Can we hear that call in our own lives? What does it mean to be part of God's story today?
This episode invites you to reflect on your own path and how to recognize your most intimate access to the divine.
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- The Life Wisdom Project: How to live a wiser, happier, and more meaningful life with special guests.
- From God To Jerry To You: Calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.
- Two Philosophers Wrestle With God: Sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have.
- What’s On Our Mind: Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series of episodes.
- Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue: A personal, philosophical, and spiritual conversation between soulmates.
- What’s On Your Mind: What are readers and listeners saying? What is God saying?
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Scott Langdon 00:17: This is God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, a dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher by Jerry L Martin. He was a lifelong agnostic, but one day he had an occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions and God had a lot to tell him. Episode 236. Welcome to God: An Autobiography, The Podcast. I’m your host, Scott Langdon. And this week we offer our latest edition of From God to Jerry to You.
Scott Langdon 01:18: When God first spoke to Jerry Martin, it didn't quite go the way you might expect a conversation like this to play out A story about God asking a human to complete a task is about as old as stories get, but this time God was asking someone to tell God's story, and that someone was Jerry. Jerry's overwhelming love for Abigail had primed him to ask if he could be of service, and God took Jerry up on his offer. On today's episode, Jerry shares what God had in mind when he gave Jerry his mission and how we can all live out God's calling for our own lives if we're open to what God is asking of us. Here now is Jerry Martin. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 02:03: The first time God spoke to me, I didn't believe He existed. I didn't believe in God or a higher power of any kind. But God continued to speak to me and even responded to my questions. One day, out of the blue, God said, “I want you to tell My story.” Huh? What could that mean? I want you to tell My story. Well, I responded immediately. Hasn't your story already been told? I was thinking of the Bible. God answered that it was time for it to be told again, and not in the same way.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 02:51: “I have given parts of the story to different peoples at different times. The whole now needs to be told.” Well, how on earth was I supposed to do that? I was told to read the ancient scriptures of the world's religions and to pray about what I read, asking, in effect, God, what were You up to with these people? I tracked sacred texts all the way back to the ancient Egyptians and the ancient Chinese.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 03:30: It turns out that the religions don't all say the same thing, because God didn't tell them the same thing. For example, “I told the ancient people of Israel to act in history and to keep My covenant and to abide by a set of religious and moral rules. That was task enough for them. I told the ancient people of India to develop the inner life and to get in touch with the transcendental Atman, the self beyond the self. Both were and remain valid tasks, and so it was with the other revelations, this means that we need to be open to the divine presence in all traditions, not just our own. In our global culture we do this already to some extent. We all learn from Gandhi and Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. We freely quote Confucius, Dao Te Ching, the Persian poet Rumi. So God has been working through all religions and cultures. There is nowhere God is absent. In fact, I was guided to start a project called Theology Without Walls, a cooperative effort to understand the divine in light of the diversity of revelations and enlightenments and epiphanies and illuminations. But I discovered something else as well. I discovered that God is working not just through religions and cultures, but through each of us. Through each of us, we are part of God's story. Our stories are like individual chapters in God's story.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 05:45: In my new book Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age—I talk about connecting our own lives with the life of the divine. For one person. That point of contact may well be the religion they grew up in. For another, it may require participation in a religion halfway around the globe. For some it might not involve anything explicitly religious at all, but may involve participation in nature or music or service to others.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 06:26: So what you need to do is still your mind, get distractions out of the way. Relax preconceptions, relax the assumptions you carry with you and you take for granted. Relax those to be open to something new and different and try to sense where your most intimate access to the divine is. Where can you be the best partner to God, and what, today and tomorrow, does God want of you? Engage in answering those questions and your life will take on a new shape and a new meaning. It may be obscure, like following a mental dowser stick, or it may be utterly clear, like a stroke of divine lightning. You just have to pay attention and take seriously whatever comes to you, even if it has just a hint of the divine. It may be God getting through to you in God, in your own way. This is the human challenge and adventure, and it is God's challenge and adventure as well. We are all in this together.
Scott Langdon 08:16: Thank you for listening to God: An Autobiography, The Podcast. Subscribe for free today wherever you listen to your podcasts and hear a new episode every week. You can hear the complete dramatic adaptation of God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin by beginning with episode one of our podcast and listening through its conclusion with Episode 44. You can read the original true story in the book from which this podcast is adapted, God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher, available now at amazon.com, and always at godanautobiography.com. Pick up your own copy today. If you have any questions about this or any other episode, please email us at questions@godanautobiography.com, and experience the world from God's perspective as it was told to a philosopher. This is Scott Langdon. I'll see you next time.