SEEING GOD

How do we see, how can we see the unseen God? We believe in God even as we cannot prove that God exists. We believe God loves us unconditionally even though we always have our doubts when we have done something we know God would never wish we would have done. We believe there is life after death even though no one who has ever died has come back to earth to make us believe it is so. Okay, Jesus did. But then we believe Jesus is God and God can do anything but we cannot.

So much of what we believe is just that: belief. It is not knowledge, yet we accept it almost as if it were knowledge even if we cannot prove its veracity. But we have to in order to live life in this world. That is true not only about our belief in God but also true about our belief in others and about life itself.

Yet we are always striving to prove to be true what we can only believe to be true. Our minds are restless from birth to death, restless for the truth whatever that truth happens to be at that moment in our lives. Thus, we will never stop trying to see God, grab hold of God, learn about God in whatever way we can. Most of the time we only catch a glimpse of God and that suffices for the moment.

But to actually see and touch and feel God? The only way that that can be done is to see God in people. We are all children of God. We believe that. And as a child of God, God lives in us just as our parents live in us and we live in our children. It is DNA but more than that. The genetics make it true. But, as we all discover as we grow older, we find our parents coming out in us – the way we think and act and speak.

So, too, God our parent, comes out in us in the way we think and act and speak. How often have we said or done something that was exactly what had to be said or done at that moment in time and then afterwards wondered where that came from? It was God coming out in us which we call the Holy Spirit. That is true for every human being regardless of race, gender or even religion. God lives in each and every person.

Thus, if we truly want to see God in the flesh, all we need do is look in the mirror and look at every person we see. Somewhere inside that person is God alive and well. That person, including ourself, may not always think and act and speak in Godly ways, but that does not lessen the truth that God is alive therein.

What each of us has to do is twofold. First, we have to recognize the God who lives in us and who works in this world in and through us. Second, we have to see the God who lives in everyone else. That will not always be easy in either instance. But it is the only way that we will be able to find reconciliation with one another in this life in this world. We cannot bring about this reconciliation all by ourselves but we can do our part in our little corner of the world by helping others see God in us as we seeing God in them.