God has always been the name that we use when the mystery and the magic of life goes beyond what we can reach; past our understanding. God used to be the name for wind and weather; for the mysteries of sexuality, for the raw emotions that seemed to take over people’s minds. At various times, each of these was taken as the work of one or many Gods.
A wise Rabbi said, “God to us is always just the next level of Mind above where we are.”
I like that. God is the mystery, and God is the Magic of life – and no matter how much we grow or learn, there is always that next level above where we are, where God is waiting for us to catch up.
The God of the Old Testament seems to us today to have far too many human frailties – anger, jealousy, not to mention a tendency for genocide. The God of the New Testament is much more a God of Love, but many people have confined Him to a human form, ignoring the vastness and universality of the Intelligence that underlies everything that is.
Someone said, “As soon as you think you know something, you limit the Vastness.” We meet people every day who think they know about God, about Jesus, about the Bible. These people are limiting the vastness – any human concept does that. God is not in the pages of a book - any more than there is a pumpkin pie in the pages of a recipe book - nor is God in the body of one long-dead teacher. The vastness cannot be so limited. We must not confuse the map with the territory, or the symbol with the reality.
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