Tonight I sat for a long while thinking about God. Now, before reading this I feel I should let you know a bit of my religious background. I was raised as a Lutheran from the time I was born. My freshman and sophomore year of high school I really didn't have any faith of any sort. My junior year I began going to a new church and really found the presence of God in my life. So please don't think of these musings as having any kind of anti-God sentiment to them.
Anyway, I was thinking for a bit about how many different religions there are and how so many people are so convinced that their version of God is the only correct one. Many people would even die for their own system of belief. A thought came to my mind that gave way to the rest of what I'm about to write: "What if they were all the same God?"
See, what if there really is a God? A very real God. A being who directs the happenings of the world and gave life to it in the beginning. If this God is so powerful and wonderful, would he not realize that we as humans have an incessant need to name and classify and explain anything that does not make sense to us? Who's to say that we're not all right, that the ways that we have all found to explain the thing that we feel in our hearts are just different names for the same thing? I see no reason why a loving God who created us all would feel any need to shun a certain form of belief in him. After all, we are only human. Who's to say that God has not simply accepted that though our stories and conclusions may be different and slightly flawed, we still find faith in him somehow? Recently, I heard a saying that I have heard many times in the past. And it seemed to tie in with this whole process of thought going through my head.
"God is love, and love is real."
What if God isn't anything but love? Love (not, of course, in the overly romanticized form) is one thing that nearly every person can agree exists in some form in every other person. The one thing that truly connects the entire human race. Is that not what we believe God is? An ever-present thing that connects us all in a deeply spiritual way?
Maybe none of this makes sense to you at all. Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe this can't mean anything to you because you view the very idea of God as childish. But maybe you agree. Or maybe it has at least given you something to think about. The subject of God can and will be debated endlessly. But I'd like to think we can all put a little faith in love.
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