A Word About God

The very man

Who deifies God

Is the same man

Who diminishes him.

 

He who considers him The Almighty,

The Creator,

The Omniscient,

The King Of Kings . . .

Reduces him to statues

And incense

And stripes on the forehead

And fancy words that no one can decipher.

 

Man’s relationship with God

Tends not to be one of adoration,

But of fear.

 

Not one of reverence,

But of hope and demand.

 

The very God

That man purports to worship,

He sells in the marketplace

For pennies on the dollar.

 

The very God

He considers Omniscient and Wise,

Is the one from whom he begs for a lifetime of boon,

In exchange for a banana and a coconut.

 

It is clearly established

That man is unserious.

But he brings this unserious

To God as well.

 

It is clearly established

That man is insincere.

But he brings this insincerity

To God as well.

 

Man is told

To beg from God,

To ask from God,

To request from God,

And those who believe in him

Do this for their entire lives.

 

But when they are not begging,

When they are not asking,

When they are not requesting from him . . .

Are they Thinking of him?

 

Man turns a sour face

To a friend who calls

Only when he needs something.

 

Yet he tends to do the very same thing

With God.

 

The matter is not

That one should think of God.

 

There is nothing

That any man alive

“Should” do

Or not do.

 

As Always . . .

 

The matter

Is one of Sincerity.

 

The matter

Is one of Seriousness.

 

The matter

Is one of Genuineness.

 

The God who has the power

To grant anything to man,

Must also have the power

To see into his heart.

 

The God who has the power

To watch a man as he worships,

Must also have the power

To watch him when he is not worshipping.

 

All things,

Forever and always,

Return to . . .

Seriousness.

And Sincerity.

 

 

Namaste.