INTRODUCING GOD

When I hear people talking about God and saying, "God says this! God wants that!" I often wonder how they know how God thinks and what He wants.

Let us try to introduce a friend to a friend.

What will we say?

"This is my friend, Tom! He is an excellent guitarist and vocalist! He is a wonderful human being! He has a degree in Physics from Colorado University, is married and has three children. I know him from the past ten years!"

You can only introduce him to the extent that you know about him. Probably his wife will introduce him better and his children and fellow musicians will introduce him in their own way.

But do you know what he is thinking at any instant of time? Can you tell everything that he wants in life? Can you even tell what he is thinking when he is standing before you?"

No. Only he knows what he is, deep down within himself. Only Tom can completely introduce himself in his totality to anyone.

And even Tom cannot introduce himself in his totality -- even he does not know what new thoughts are going to enter his mind the next moment or the next day or in the future. No even Tom cannot introduce his own self.

Can you introduce yourself fully? No. Even you do not know what thought is going to enter within you the next moment. Even the bravest of men have been known to run with fear at the sight of a tiger come running after them. No one knows how he will behave in any particular situation. Will he become chivalrous and help others or run for his own life? Even he would not know.

When you go to sleep you have no control over yourself in your dreams- it is the dream that seems to guide your thoughts and movements. There are often times when a tiger is chasing you and you find that you cannot run, your legs are not working under you. There are times when you dream of falling off a cliff.

So how flimsy we are in introducing our own selves. How filmsy we are in introducing any other person in life.

And just imagine our bravado in introducing God-- who is Infinite, Absolute Knowledge, All Knowing, All powerful, Omniscient, Omnipresent. In fact he is beyond our imagination!!

Yet, everyone goes around introducing God to everyone else as if he is an expert on God. He would not be able to introduce Physics to anyone, but here he is introducing the Creator of Physics and all of Knowledge to everyone!!

Only a Ph.D in Physics can introduce a Ph.D like him, and even then not in totality. How can a child in kindergarten introduce a Ph.D in Physics?

How then can puny man with such a limited knowledge understand God in his fullest extent - and introduce Him to anyone!!

But he can get away with it-- since God is silent and does not come down to contradict anything that anyone says about him. Imagine the voice of God thundering down from the skies saying to puny

man:

"STOP! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD ABOUT ALL I COULD TAKE! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!"

The fact is that only God in His fulness can introduce God.