{"id":259,"date":"2008-03-29T06:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T06:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/03\/what-is-gods-job.html"},"modified":"2008-03-29T06:13:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T06:13:21","slug":"what-is-gods-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/03\/what-is-gods-job.html","title":{"rendered":"What is God’s job?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is God’s job? That’s a question humanity has been asking for a very long time. Now comes an interesting response…
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\nNOTE: Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Silent Sacred Holy Deeply: Heart.<\/em>
\nFor this week’s prose we offer…the third in a series of excerpts from Tomorrow’s God<\/em>…
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\nso, to get back to where we were\u2026
\n\u2026It is the perception of many people on this earth that your job\u2014God\u2019s job\u2014is to tell human beings what is best for them. You tell us what is best for us, and then it is up to us to do it, or else. This is a simplified restating of one of humanity\u2019s sacred beliefs.<\/p>\n

That belief is a fallacy. That is not God\u2019s job and that is not God\u2019s purpose and that is not God\u2019s function.
\nIt is the job and purpose of the God that many of you have created in your imaginations, but not of the God Who Really Is. It is the function of Yesterday\u2019s God, but not of Tomorrow\u2019s God.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s the second time you\u2019ve used that phrase. What do you mean by \u201cTomorrow\u2019s God?\u201d<\/p>\n

The God in whom you will believe on some future tomorrow. The God in whom you will have faith in your future.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we are going to get a new God!<\/p>\n

Not a \u201cnew God,\u201d but a new understanding of the present God. An expanded concept, a deeper awarness.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But you agreed with me when we started this conversation that we needed a new God.<\/p>\n

I was going with the words you were using, not wanting to get into semantics in our first brief exchange. I knew all along what I meant, and I knew all along that I would have a chance to explain it to you further.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, what did you mean?<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve just said, I meant not a \u201cnew\u201d God, strictly speaking, but a new version of God. A larger version of God. This is the Same God Who Always Was, Is Now, and Always Will Be\u2014it is simply not the God of your present understanding.
\nYour understanding has been incomplete. I am inviting you now to expand your awareness and come to a more complete understanding of who and want God is, and of what is true about Life. I am inviting you to create Tomorrow’s God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What if I don\u2019t want to let go of Yesterday\u2019s God? What if I\u2019m really attached to those ideas and, by the way, happen to think they are the Right and True ideas about God?<\/p>\n

Then you will continue to create your life as you now know it on your planet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So? What\u2019s so bad about that?<\/p>\n

Look around you. You like what you see? Then go ahead, continue to believe what you believe. But don\u2019t think things aren\u2019t going to change. It\u2019s not a question of \u201cif,\u201d but \u201chow.\u201d Everything is going to change. And, sooner or later, so will humanity’s beliefs about God. That is when you will say goodbye to Yesterday\u2019s God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When is this going to happen?<\/p>\n

Actually, it\u2019s beginning to happen right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really? Well, so much for that being what saves the world, because it\u2019s not changing much of anything.<\/p>\n

Yes, it is. You\u2019re just not seeing the change. You\u2019re not aware of it. But as the changes increase, as they spread, you\u2019ll become more and more aware of them. Indeed, you\u2019ll become part of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When will this process be complete?<\/p>\n

Never. The process of seeing and experiencing more and more of God is never-ending. That\u2019s the joy of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, when will it be complete enough for things to get start getting better around here?<\/p>\n

Soon. Very soon. If humanity is willing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does that mean?<\/p>\n

It means that if humanity makes this choice, a movement, a radical shift, in humanity\u2019s understandings about God could occur rapidly. Easily within your lifetime. Within three decades. Perhaps even faster than that, once the first domino falls.
\nIt is simply a question of reaching critical mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What will that take?<\/p>\n

Not nearly what you might think. Some people assume that critical mass is one more than half, but it is not. Nor is it 25% of the whole, nor even 10% of the whole, nor even 5% of the whole. Critical mass is reached when 2-4% of the whole is affected.
\nWatch the surface of water as its brought to a boil. The boiling point is not reached when over half of the surface is bubbling. The effect of critical mass is exponential. That\u2019s what makes it so powerful. A few bubbles break the surface of the water\u2026then, in a sudden rush, all of the water is boiling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, a relatively small number of us must make the choice to create that shift in our understandings about God. What could make humanity willing to make that choice?<\/p>\n

One of two things. More hatred or more hope. Another world-shaking disaster born of rage and wrapped in violence and killing, or a global awakening produced in another way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In what other way? Other than disaster and calamity, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a way for human beings to wake up.<\/p>\n

Oh, but there is. There could be a worldwide movement to spread, not terror, but peace, joy, and love. There could be a massive grass-roots undertaking, with people all across the globe mobilized at the community level to change the way things are. Just as there are now terrorist cells, there could be spiritual activist teams all over the earth.
\nThis would require leadership, of course. And it would require great commitment on the part of those who follow these leaders. But it is possible. It can be done.
\nAnd the first step lies at the level of thought. Humanity\u2019s future depends on what humanity thinks about itself. It depends on what humanity thinks about God, and about Life.
\nFrom your thought springs your reality. From your ideas does your future emerge. Thus, your beliefs create your behaviors, and your behaviors create your experience.
\nWhat you believe, therefore, becomes a most important thing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What creates beliefs? Can anything in the exterior world of physicality create beliefs?<\/p>\n

Yes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What?<\/p>\n

People.
\nPeople can.
\nPeople in your exterior world can create interior spiritual events. First in themselves and then in others.
\nMany have done this. This is what you are doing now. That is what all of humanity can do. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But how? How can we do this? That is the golden question!<\/p>\n

There are many ways in which one may begin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Name one.<\/p>\n

You are holding it in your hand. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Next Saturday, installment #4 from Tomorrow’s God<\/em>.)
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\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/strong><\/em>
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\nI am My Own Home, now.
\n*
\nWherever I move,
\nThe Light –
\nIt comes with me.
\nI open all of the
\ndoors and the windows
\nso that God
\ncan come and go
\neasily.
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\nSometimes I don’t know why
\nGod takes such delight
\nin This House
\nI call Me.
\nThis place where
\nHearts
\ncome,
\nto be Broken.
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\nAt the end of The Long Day
\nI always ask,
\n“God? Why, Hearts to be Broken?\u201d
\nAnd God always replies,
\n\u201cNever Broken, dear Lover –
\nonly Opened.\u201d
\n(Never Broken – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)
\nFor more of the work of this new poetic voice you are invited to visit www.mclairepoet.com.
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