More on God as all powerful.
I have come to dislike watching football as much as I love to watch it - especially
as the season comes to an end. What do I dislike about football? The fact that these
big, athletic guys mock the power of God. God is a god for winners - a god for guys
with good hands - a god who scores and scores again - a god who keeps me from being
injured. That god we hear being praised at football games is more the god of the
underworld - death - division - duh, the evil one. That's right, all that pointing
into the air with the index finger high simply shows the values of the world that
wants winners according to how winners rule. Interesting how the evil one always
wants us to think as though s/he is God. Oh - the small 'g' on this god is intended.
To praise God for a touchdown or a victory is to praise a limited god - a false
god. It is to make what we call God Almighty into god of the powers of the world
- nothing more. God as all powerful is the God who is to be praise after a pass
is dropped - a game is lost - a career ends on a bad note. Then, God is all powerful
and is not merely aligned with what we consider 'winners'. When God is the maker
of winners, this god has nothing to do with the power of forgiveness - serving
others - standing with and being on the side of the least - the lowest - the lost
- the left out - the fumblers.
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. That is - all
things - all that will be - all that has ever been - even the losers and the ones
who fall short and blow it. There is no other God but this God - of all creation.
O God of love and new life, you are the one who sustains us and nurtures us and
moves us to live beyond our wants so that you face will shine among us in all that
times of our lives. We praise, O God, Almighty. Amen.
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