There are God messages and then there are God messages. Some are of the rain shower type that we routinely value. Some God messages are like a bolt of lightning, rare but eventful. The God lightning bolts are always associated with a pivot point because God seems to get bored with our routine spirituality. Like with a cattle prad, we are encouraged to change.
Going back 6000
years, where and when did the God bolts happen?
What major change was forced upon us in each lightning bolt event? The
spiritual history of we humans is a mixed bag and I am no authority but it is
fun to speculate. After all, the facts
are out there, it isn’t rocket science.
In the first
place, the God given spiritual lightning bolt that touches the ground we walk
on, is always very disruptive. Our world
when struck must adjust, modify, compensate, nullify or reject the message given. It is a messy process. Everyone reacts in different ways depending
on their vested interests but one thing is for sure, our world after the fireworks
is over, will never be quite the same.
Second, when
the spiritual lightning bolt strikes, it always strikes an individual. Zap, message
given, message received. One would think
the message would be dumped on someone in a leadership position who could
affect the desired change. History has proven
just the opposite, the lightning bolt strikes an individual in obscurity, all
the time, every time.
Third, the message
God sends is filtered in varying degrees through the human understanding of
said individual. There is no 100% clear
message. The message does not make the individual superhuman, the message given,
to some extent, is always garbled. However,
in the flow of history of time and place, the core message is always clear,
whether we choose to deal with it or remain blind.
Lightning
bolt # 1. Abram: the message, “God can be heard”.
The religious wait for the next lightning
bolt, 700 years.
Lightning bolt
# 2. Moses: the message “God is the fix for all chosen”.
The religious wait for the next lightning
bolt, about 1500 years.
Lightning
bolt #3. Jesus: the message, “God can be
tasted now”.
The next religious wait: a decade or so.
Lightning bolt #4. Apostle Paul: the message, “God is the God of all peoples".
The next religious wait: about 1500 years.
Lightning
bolt #5. Martin Luther: “God’s acceptance is by faith”.
Just waiting religiously for the next
bolt of lightning.
This is our
story but it is also our God leading us toward authentic spirituality. The qualifier is time and space. If our hidden God slowly reveals truth to us,
religion of any shape or size can not be an ultimate fix. This is why some of us believe in the
universal love of God.
The trillions
of peoples who missed, for whatever reason, God’s progressive revelation are not
doomed as collateral damage. All of us have a home awaiting us in eternity.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca
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