If I were God, how would I behave?

If I were God…

Have you ever heard (or said) something like, “I can’t see how God can put up with…?” That statement was made to me a few years ago which generated the following thoughts. They will serve as the springboard to a study on the nature of God over the next few Fridays.

If I were God, how would I behave? If I could bundle all the good people together, all the morality that exists in all the good people in the world… I would have all those characteristics to the infinite degree.

I would be perfect…
Morally
Intellectually
Emotionally

I would create. I would be the most perfect artist. My creation would be a creature that would reflect much of my own nature, to the greatest degree possible for a created being.

Since I am God, I would be the epitome of self-control. But my creature would not.  My creature would one day – probably sooner than later – not do what I wanted him to do.  I would have to make a plan – a perfect plan – to rectify his imperfections.

Since no one could withstand my punishment and live to tell about it, I would have to punish myself. I would have to separate myself from my own presence. But, I would also be able to reunite myself.

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I would keep myself out of the world so that I could interact with the creature and all his descendants for ages to come. I would have to be separate from this world so I could answer his communication – so I could see the end from the beginning.

I would need to tell if he really wanted to be with me or not – a perfect way for me to know – and for him to know – if he reciprocated that love I showed him. The biggest challenge has always been self-denial. He would have to serve me supremely and serve his fellow-man sacrificially.

I would design the perfect world for this creature to allow him to grow, develop, and respond to his perfect challenge I would give him. He would need to know he would leave that world. It would inspire and motivate him through the challenges.

I would send a part of myself into this physical world and experience the same things he experiences – it would motivate and encourage him. I would have to be punished, for him, in his world.

I would also provide for him an opportunity to express his love for me. Along with his fellow creatures who also loved me, he would then be encouraged and motivated to meet the challenges he would face.

I would take all those who responded to my love by loving me in return, to be with me in my spiritual world. Then, I would destroy that physical world, for it would have served its purpose.

Doesn’t the contemplation of the nature of God thrill your heart? Next Friday, we’ll consider, “What Kind of God Exists?”

–Paul Holland