{"id":272,"date":"2008-04-12T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/04\/god-will-never-desert-you.html"},"modified":"2008-04-12T06:24:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T06:24:12","slug":"god-will-never-desert-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/04\/god-will-never-desert-you.html","title":{"rendered":"God will never desert you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the “God of our fathers” — that is, the God in which our ancestors believed — able and equipped to serve humanity in the 21st Century…or do we need a “new God”? That is the question that events of our time places before our species.
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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 fifth and final entry in a series of excerpts from Tomorrow’s God<\/em>…
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\nChapter 3 – Part 2<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s God will change form as each moment and each individual seeking to experience God dictates. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hold it. You mean we get to decide who and what God is?<\/p>\n

Why are you so surprised? You\u2019ve been doing that since time began. You call this Religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Religions don\u2019t decide who and what God is, religions simply tell us what God said about that.<\/p>\n

And who says what God said?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Religions.<\/p>\n

So who is saying what? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Religions are telling us what God told religions. Or, rather, what God told those upon whose teachings religions are based.<\/p>\n

In other words, what God told human beings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, what God told human beings, but in very special revelations to very special people at very special moments in human history.<\/p>\n

Such as the revelations being made here, to you, at this time?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well now, that\u2019s a pretty big stretch for most people. I don\u2019t think that most people are going to believe or accept that God would choose to reveal Himself to me, personally, in the form of this on-paper dialogue, if that is what you\u2019re asking.<\/p>\n

I am very clear that they might not accept that Yesterday\u2019s God would, given what you believe about him. But they might allow as to how Tomorrow’s God would, because Tomorrow’s God will talk with everyone, all the time.
\nAnd that\u2019s the Third Important Difference between Yesterday\u2019s God and Tomorrow’s God:
\n3. Tomorrow’s God talks with everyone, all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How? How will this occur? Will everyone be having conversations with God?<\/p>\n

Everyone IS having conversations with God, all the time. That will be an important message of The New Spirituality. God is communicating with humanity in every moment.
\nI did not stop talking to human beings 2,000 years ago, nor have I ever selected only a few human beings to whom to reveal myself. I am revealing myself to all human beings all the time, yet only a few human being have embraced these revelations, have seen them for what they are, and have held them as sacred\u2014and so it seems as though only a few have received them.
\nGod\u2014the force, the energy, the experience that you call Divinity\u2014shows Itself in your life in the way that is exactly and perfectly suited to the time, place, and situation at hand. You either call that experience \u201cGod\u201d or you call it something else\u2014coincidence, synchronicity, \u201crandom event,\u201d whatever. Yet what you call it does not change what it is\u2014it merely indicates your belief system about that.
\nIf you believe that the way Life is showing itself to you now is God, you will see it as God. If you do not believe that the way Life is showing itself to you now is God, you will not see it as God.
\nSome say that seeing is believing, but I tell you that believing is seeing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAs you believe, so will it be done unto you.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is correct. That truth has been taught by many masters. And in the future, many more human beings will experience God\u2019s communications as exactly what they are: revelations from the Divine. People will not require God to \u201cshow up\u201d in one way and only in that way. People\u2019s beliefs about God will expand, and this expansion will increase their awareness of the God that has always been there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This reminds me of the story of the blindfolded man who was led to an elephant, upon whose side his hand was placed. He was asked to describe what he felt. He did his best, but when he removed his blindfold he was astonished to find how little he had grasped of the totality of the experience.<\/p>\n

That is a very instructive little story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, you\u2019re saying that Tomorrow’s God will be larger than we guessed, and that when we remove our \u201cblindfolds\u201d we will discover that God actually changes form, appearing in a multiplicity of ways depending upon the time and the place and the events of the moment.<\/p>\n

That is how humanity will allow itself to experience God on this most blessed future tomorrow. Yesterday\u2019s God\u2014the God in whom most of humanity has believed thus far\u2014is thought to be a Constant. That belief will not change, but it will expand.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, God is not a Constant?<\/p>\n

God IS a Constant. God is that which is Constantly Present and Constantly Changing, suiting Itself to each moment, so that God may be understood in that moment, embraced in that moment, experienced in that moment, and expressed in that moment.
\nYou are never alone. God is always with you. Yet you may often be unable to see God or to experience God if you are expecting God to show up in a certain way\u2014as do so many of those who believe in Yesterday\u2019s God.
\nThere is no limit to the ways in which God may show up. Many humans have attempted to place limits on God but have, as a result, only placed limits on themselves and on their ability to see and to experience God.
\nOn your yesterdays you have believed in a limited God. On a blessed future tomorrow you will begin to believe in a limitless God, who can appear in any form, under any circumstances, to any person, and, indeed, to all people in all places all the time.
\nIn truth, this is what is going on right now, but you do not believe it. On that blessed future tomorrow you will believe it, and then you will see it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On what \u201cfuture tomorrow\u201d? When will this day come for me?<\/p>\n

On the day that you select. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t know what that means! C\u2019mon, help me out here.<\/em> I\u2019ve been praying for peace, searching for truth, seeking enlightenment for decades. My species has been doing so for centuries and millennia! When will I find it? What will cause me to do so?<\/p>\n

Whenever and whatever you choose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I choose to be the cause will be the cause?<\/p>\n

That is correct. You may choose the cause to be some exterior calamity, or you may choose it to be a different kind of event. What you choose will be what you use.
\nYou could even choose to use this dialogue, this book that you are holding right now in your hands, to be the cause of your awakening. Many people will.
\nEach of you will use something in this Life to wake yourself up. And each of you will wake up. You are in a sleep from which all of you will awaken. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, but if we awaken too late, it will be bad for us. We\u2019ll be \u201cleft behind.\u201d We\u2019ll be deserted by God, because we didn\u2019t answer His call while we still had a chance.<\/p>\n

That is not true. That is what someone has told you, but that is not true. That is the God in whom some people want you to believe, and those who want you to believe this have used Fear as their tool, and would have you use it, too. Yet, if your wish is to see the Source of All Love, shall you use Fear as your looking glass?
\nI tell you this: ALL of you will awaken. It is not my plan that some of you shall awaken and some of you shall not. What would be the good in that? What would be the point?
\nI assure you of this, my children: ALL OF YOU WILL AWAKEN.
\nIt is part of the process of evolution that you should awaken. It is part of the process of Life Itself.
\nLife IS the process of awakening. It is the process of Becoming. It is the process of knowing that one has become what one always was. It is the process of rejoining the inseparable. And that is not a process of actual rejoining, but of simply knowing again that separation never occurred.
\nLet me repeat that, because it is extraordinarily important, and it is the theological lynchpin of The New Spirituality.
\nLife is the process of awakening. It is the process of Becoming. It is the process of knowing that one has become what one always was. It is the process of rejoining the inseparable\u2014and that is not a process of actual rejoining, but of simply knowing again that separation never occurred.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So this \u201cknowing again\u201d is the awakening.<\/p>\n

Yes. Each of you will awaken, since no part of God will ever be deserted by God\u2014nor could it ever be. For God cannot separate Godself from any part of God.
\nDesertion of God by God is impossible. Separation of God from God is impossible. Such a thing would only be possible if there were something that is not a part of God. Yet there is nothing that is not a part of God, for God is separate from nothing, but is the All In All, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Sum Total of Everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
\nAnd that\u2019s the Fourth Important Difference between Yesterday\u2019s God and Tomorrow’s God:
\n4. Tomorrow’s God is separate from nothing, but is Everywhere Present, the All In All, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Sum Total of Everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be.
\nThis is the nature and the truth of God, and on the future tomorrow of your choosing, you will know it and acknowledge it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(This was the final installment in a series of excerpts from Tomorrow’s God<\/em>.)
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\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/strong><\/em>
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\nWe wake this morning empty,
\nyes?
\nAs if the cup that stands
\nin the Solar Plexus
\nwas tipped
\nin the Night
\nwhile
\nwe slept.
\nAnd we rise this morning praying,
\nyes?
\nThat as the day unfolds
\nThis Love will
\ncome to fill Us
\nwhile
\nwe Live.
\nAnd these words appear before Us,
\nyes?
\nAs if the cup we spoke of
\nhas become The Chalice
\nheld in the hands
\nof God.
\nAs if what has been tipped
\nwas never emptied
\nand
\ntherefore
\nnever lost.
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\nAnd these words appear before Us,
\nyes?
\n(Exalted – 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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