Recently at work, I spotted an ant on my paper. By instinct I stretched out my thumb to crush it. However, the ant did not die and it started limping aimlessly on the paper. Just when I was about to crush it again, I decided to take a closer look at it and I realize that it was struggling. Seeing and being inspired by its fighting spirit and persistence to live, I decided to let it go. So, I just flick it aside. At that very moment, I felt a sense of superiority and a sense of power, as if I have control over the ant’s life. I can bring it home and give it a new environment to live in, its fate totally lies in my hands. I was thinking, if the ant had a little more imagination, it would probably think that I am god, which I definitely am not. Then suddenly I felt very small, just like the ant. I felt like I am the one who is very vulnerable with lots of giant thumbs hovering above me. It seems like there are also many powerful forces beyond our understanding around us. And this got me thinking, that aren’t humans as foolish as what I thought the ant to be. How we have the tendency to treat anything more powerful and beyond our understanding as god. Especially, when there is some sort of response when we try to interact with the greater forces.
Question: How do you know your god is God?
In my opinion, It is not how real I can feel God in my life, not by the miracles (healing etc.) , definitely not by the blessings, not how God response to me when I speak to Him, neither is it His strong presence when I worship and pray. No, I have not backslided, I am not speaking namunamu here. This are probably the reasons why I love God, probably the reasons I know God exist, but may not be reasons to separate God from gods. There are strong forces out there and we will be only ignorant to think that only God can do things beyond us.
In my opinion, It is the truth that separates God from gods. The truth comes from the Word. The truth states that we are sinners, and indeed we are. Cause we can’t help sinning even if we don’t want to. The truth states that Jesus saves us from our sins. There are many forces that are powerful, more powerful than human, they may give us what we want, they may be beyond our understanding. But there is only one who can save us from our sins, that is Jesus Christ the Lord. The Word states that Jesus is the way and the truth and the life. The only way, the only truth, the only life, Jesus is the one and only God.
