It’s true! Whatever god you adhere to, your understanding of that God does not exist. There is no big ogre in heaven waiting for the next feeble human to step out of line or to disobey his utterances and to strike them dead. Such a god is dead. He just does not exist. People are like that, but not God.

There is no such god who favors one human being over another. A god who sends his chosen ones to wipe out a neighboring nation or who blesses one side more than another does not exist.

Look at your scriptures, what do they say? God rains on the wicked and the righteous. God is no respecter of persons. All men are equal in God’s sight. God is love, compassionate and forgiving. Does that represent the God you have been taught about? Too often we humans portray our weak, jealous feelings onto the Divine Entity who created our world, and we expect him/her to respond in a human way.

Fortunately for us, God is more tolerant than we are, and more patient. God to me is a Universal Intelligence who sees the big picture. He sees the beginning from the end and knows all things. God is also part of you and me. As the ultimate expression of love and light God is also expressed in all of creation, including you and me. That means I am an expression of the Divine, and you are too, as is the enemy across the frontier.

No, it is not God who is dead, but the faulty perception we have of God which is dead. God is very much alive, and alive in every human being, animal, fish and plant. Think of that. When one man kills another, he is killing God! Isn’t it easy to understand why God, no matter in which religion he is represented (or misrepresented), implores us to love our brother and sister, our neighbour and even our enemy. In doing so we are expressing the God part of our being.

What do you think? Is the god of your tradition dead? Or is He/She very much alive in all that you think, do or say?

I regard Jesus as one of the most inspired teachers of all time and that he was teaching us to recognize our being and connection to the Divine. He also understood the power of intention and thought and taught very clearly that what you give out will ultimately return to you.

So many, even religious people, fail to understand how important it is to love others and not to hate and hold grudges. Many are sick, poor and miserable because of their attitudes towards others. In fact, I would go as far to say that most illnesses are caused by hatred and foul feelings towards others. Think of what those feelings are doing to you and your body.

It is now clearly understood that we are more than just a physical being. We are also spiritual beings and emotional beings. These three parts to our being effect each other, so it must be understood that your emotional condition will effect your physical body and vice versa. When Jesus was telling us to love others, even our enemies, he wasn’t telling us to ignore the evil around us, but he was instructing us how to stay healthy in spite that evil. If you internalize the evil done in the world then you internalize the effects of it in your physical and mental health.

I am currently reading Dan Brown’s new novel “The Lost Symbol”, and you wouldn”t expect to find New Thought teaching in a novel. But Brown does quote Lynn McTaggart and makes the following observation: Thoughts have mass, and as such have gravity. If we then focus thought intensely then we increase the gravity of that thought.

Isn’t that interesting? I have known that our thoughts do attract what we think about and that thoughts are energy, but now to see thoughts as actual mass makes this more understandable.

If you hate someone, you are drawing that hate into your own body. If you criticise someone harshly you are drawing that criticism into your own body. But if you love others, no matter what they have done, you are drawing the most powerful force of love into your body and life.

Isn’t it time to get rid of all those hates and grudges? Let them go like hot coals. Grab hold of the good by giving it out. Love and be loved.

Of course the WWJD movement urges the question, “What would Jesus do where or when?” The answer, I believe, is in any situation you happen to find yourself in. What would God do? In the discussion at JasonsNetwork many got upset over the choice of a background profile photo. What would God do? How would God react?

The WWJD movement is designed to prompt young people to act like Jesus would, yet one wonders if the wristband-bearing youth really do intend to reflect the behaviour of such an enlightened One, or if they think that the wearing of the letters WWJD compensates for their “other-worldly” deeds.

To ask such a question raises many others. For example, what image has the questioner of God, and what image has the one being questioned of God? The person who asks the question, “What would God do?” obviously has a preconceived idea of how their God would respond to such a situation. The intention of such a question can only be to either cast judgement on those being questioned, because their behaviour is not consistent with the questioner’s beliefs, or to challenge the belief systems of others and the resulting reactions.

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