#80 About God

Okay, let’s step on the big stage. In all my blogs prior to this, I have no doubt mentioned God in several. Most of us mention God daily in one fashion or another, be it intentional or in vain. A good portion of humanity worships the “God” of their choosing at least once a week, some, daily. I really must believe that there are not too many people of sound mind walking the planet that have never heard of God, whether they believe in a God or not is irrelevant.

I am thinking that if you were to ask 10 people what their idea of God was, you would get 10 different answers. Many keep God behind closed doors in their lives unless it is Sunday, then “he,” “she,” “it,” comes out for an hour. But what is it that comes out? An idea? A concept? A being? Just what is God anyway?  Since God is pretty much “center stage” in most of life as we know it, how about we take a deeper look into this concept of God? I may be a bit bold here, but none the less, let us do this, because the New Thought concept of God desperately needs an upgrade.

It is my opinion that at this stage of our human evolution we should begin to shy away from the separate “male” image that we seem to automatically bring forth when God is mentioned, surrounded by singing angels. Not that there are not angels, because they certainly are abounding throughout the unseen world. And, they are singing praise and worship to God (Creator/Source), among many other duties. If I just wanted to cut to the chase here and tell you that God is All There Is, would that do it for you? I doubt it. Even though that is the “bottom line” answer, we need a little more than that to explain a concept as big as God, right? 

How about we eliminate what God is not? That will get a point across. God is not a man but is androgynous. God is not a separate being. God is beingness. God is not a judge and jury. Man alone captures that title. God is not vengeful, that again is man, for God is only love. God does not command. God allows. God does not take away. God brings forth. God is not distant. God is a constant presence. One does not pray to a God. God embodies you. I could go on, but I think you have gotten my drift here. 

We should begin to speak of God in more expansive ways. Speak of God as all of us. You and all creation are God individualizing Itself. When we really understand this and embody this, we will become more committed to equity and justice because we will understand that the life of all is God, and none are free until all are free.

I will end this post with a quote from one of my mentors, Ernest Holmes. “God is all there is. When we use the word God, we mean the Cause, the invisible Intelligence, the Divinity, that omnipresent Knowingness; Spirit, Life, Truth, Reality… that is what we mean by God. And when we say that God is everywhere, we mean that God is in us, in each other, in this flower, in the interspaces of the universe. There is nothing but God.”

Oh, and do you want to see God? Just look in the mirror for starters.