The Day God Stopped Being

You’re a believer. But of what? Are you a believer of the truth which will set you free? Probably not. Sure, you like to think you are (often just to be able to fit in to the crowd you hang with) but deep down inside you doubt…everything.

If you have followed me for any length of time, you know that I am a “grace” guy. My hope is that you will be able to come into the revelation of the grace with which each of us have been empowered with. However, I recognize how this revelation will only manifest as each of us accept the truth which is God. I also recognize how as a New Testament believer, our default understanding of God is encompassed in the standard, “God is love,” which is a lofty claim that hardly any of us can understand!

There are three tenets which have stood the vicissitudes of time which pertain to the nature and character of God. First, God is omnipresent; second, God is omnipotent; third, God is omniscient. Scripture validates each of these claims regardless of our doubts to the contrary. God is always present; all powerful; and all knowing. If “God is love” it is only because these three tenets survive as being immoveable.

So, the question to you is simple: When did God stop being for you who He has always been and will forever be?

The Kingdom

Jesus made a claim which, regrettably, today we simply have no clue what he was speaking about. He stated how the kingdom of God was not here nor there according to the whims of man’s sight, but actually resides hidden within each of us. It’s easy to parrot this truth, yet harder to live it. Why? Doubt.

The first tenet about God is that He is always present. A kingdom, any kingdom, only exists when and where the king resides. The kingdom moves as the king moves.

One of the most characteristic features of western religion is that “God” is up there, out there, somewhere and it is the duty of a believer to “call God down.” This is depicted in the notion that some act has separated man from God and our entire expanse of life is an attempt to get back into the presence which departed from humanity.

If Jesus was bold enough to claim how the kingdom of God was within us, when did people begin to believe that the kingdom had moved? Consider your own belief about this matter. Does your understanding about an omnipresent God reflect a being who is “apart” from you or “a part” of you? Do you also restrict this viewpoint to just you or the entirety of the world? Are you unable to see “One” as a multitude simply because one in a multitude seems so lost?

Have you ever considered how your ability to see restricts your spiritual development? The kingdom of God is spiritual, not material. You can’t see it with your eyes, you sense it with your heart. The day God stopped being occurred when you went “looking” for Him. Since He is always present, everywhere and within all, to “look” for Him and not “see” from this truth is to doubt. This is probably why grace is so vital for us. It keeps us sustained in our kingdom development while we learn to walk by faith and not by sight.

The wise men of old announced that there would come a day when a child would be born who would be named Emmanuel, which they say means, “God is with us.” I’m not trying to be sacrilegious but if God is always present, doesn’t this child simply affirm truth by its name rather than establish a whole new truth by its appearance? Would this not apply, too, for every child who came from the same ancestorial line before and after this child regardless of their name? Have we become so conditioned in seeing “Mark”, “Fred”, “Betty”, “Anne”, or whatever the name is, as an independently named and functioning “being” rather than the truth of being Emmanuel?

Across the pantheon of western religion, the masses have joyously proclaimed and affirmed how God is, “all in all.” Rather than get all wrapped up in a lesson of semantics, let’s take a pause, and placing it where it belongs, let’s agree with truth: God is all, in all. Even the blind believes this. Can you?