No one has ever seen God

I.      To say who or what God is

Is like saying you know what’s beyond the edge of the universe

Or what’s smaller than a subatomic particle

Its like saying you know what’s straighter than a line, or rounder than a circle

II.      The term ‘God’ can be used literally

Only to refer to the great necessity of existence

As for who or what God is beyond existence

No person, or book, or thing can truly say

III.      All we can say is what God is like

Thus ‘God’ is the greatest metaphor of all existence

To affirm the reality

Of both our private and shared divine experiences

IV.      For to deny divine experience as genuine

Is to make God but a caricature of goodness

But to say what ultimately makes divinity itself

Is to make God an idol of our minds

V.      The mistake is that we end up worshiping a mere idea of God

Rather than wondering at existence

Basking in our blessings

And living a life thankful for all we touch and feel

VI.      This is why I follow the Way of Jesus

For Jesus was the great iconoclast of all our idols of God

He saved us from the follies of any law-bound or likewise captive God

And for this he became our liberating Messiah, our living Christ

VII.      Thus our sacrifice of faith

Is that we bury our best ideas of God with Christ

And when in two or three days time we find that life divine still rises in our midst

We finally believe

VIII.      That nothing on earth nor in any heaven can separate us from the love of God

Nothing

And certainly no idea of God, wrathful or holy alike

Can banish grace or shackle our souls

IX.      For the Spirit of Christ is not only the resurrection of life itself

It is the perennial re-birth of goodness in all that exists, that is –in God

And for this we worship, in spite of What we do not know

And work to build a just and peaceful Kingdom of these limited yet living stones!

“No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”   - I John 4:12