Santa Claus

What kind of a person, do you think, is God? Anything like Santa Claus?

After all, Santa Claus is very good, all the time. In fact, Mr. Claus is so good that he has access to the goodness and lack thereof in everyone, all over the world. And according to some, he is so very good that even when little boys and girls are bad, he gives them presents anyway, because that’s how Santa Claus is. Perhaps Santa Claus really is a concept modeled on God! Perhaps Santa Claus is actually a way for children to learn how God is! Then, when they’re old enough, they get weaned off of Santa Claus, and we can get them to start believing in a real God!

You know, I think there’s a real point there. After all, just like Santa Claus, God does good and wonderful things, for everyone; and never, ever, does anything involving pain or death or suffering. Certainly, bad things do not ever have anything to do with God! God is love, and only love, forever; and since God is this way, everything that is not love, cannot possibly have anything to do with God. I don’t know exactly how it is then that pain and death and suffering can exist, but maybe God has to go to the bathroom sometimes.

Have you ever watched people who have religion involving God, and who love this world and its contents, when things go wrong for them? Have you seen what they do and say? Do you have memories of voices saying “....God didn’t have anything to do with that! God wasn’t anywhere near that! And I don’t care what anyone else says, that’s the way it is, and no one is going to tell me any different!!!”

Or maybe that’s you I just quoted. Regardless, I have three questions for you.

Does your God rule?

Or is your devil sometimes more powerful than your God?

Or is your God sometimes absent?

If your God is sometimes absent, something like the Muslim god who is too 'high' to care very much about anyone now in the world, I simply pray God that He will choose to do to you as He did to me, and smash His way through the deadness of your soul and enter you, and change you into something holy, something which He likes much better: something which He will keep, and not throw into the garbage.

The same applies if your God is yourself, or all people like you, or everything that is, or any other of the several permutations of lawless self-worship that are temporarily growing in this world.

But perhaps it is simply that your devil is sometimes more powerful than your God. If this is true, I pray God cause you to realize that you have a serious problem.

You see, God rules. There is nothing that He can not know. There is nothing that He can not create. There is nothing He can not begin. And there is nothing He can not end, or stop, or prevent. He empowers every thing that exists, every thing that occurs, and every prevention.

If you are devoted to things and causes and nations of this world, however, God very often does not rule for you: if you are thus, God rules against you rather often. When anyone dies, when churches and mosques and temples and synagogues burn, when towers fall, when twenty million people die of starvation, when thirty million people kill each other in a war, you will say “shame” to yourself, and you will be unhappy with that which God has done, or has not done; you will hate God, whether you lie to yourself or not.

I suggest you desire to serve God. It is much easier, though He has to change you a good bit first, or you will continue to hate much of Him and His works. If you would like to know how the process begins, please contact anyone who knows, and we will help.

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