To observe is not to need. But we also need to be clear on what it is we mean by "God". It is true it is difficult to reconcile these concepts with the traditional patronymic "Father figure" hurling creative and destructive thunderbolts from a celestial throne before whom all must kneel. This is the God of Fear personified. Here are some selections from CWG on this subject:
"If you believe that God is some omnipotent being who hears all prayers, says "yes" to some, "no" to others, and "maybe, but now now" to the rest, you are mistaken. By what rule of thumb would God decide?
If you believe that God is the creator and decider of all things in your life, you are mistaken.
God is the observer, not the creator. And God stands ready to assist you in living your life, but not in the way you might expect.
It is not God's function to create, or uncreate, the circumstances or conditions of your life. God created you, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest, through the power God has given you. God created the process of life and life itself as you know it. Yet God gave you free choice, to do with life as you will.
In this sense, your will for you is God's will for you.
You are living your life the way you are living your life, and I have no preference in the matter.
This is the grand illusion in which you have engaged: that God cares one way or the other what you do.
I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. ...
Yet God, in a sense, does not even care about the outcome. Not the ultimate outcome. This is because the ultimate outcome is assured.
And this is the second great illusion of man: that the outcome of life is in doubt.
It is this doubt about ultimate outcome that has created your greatest enemy, which is fear. For if you doubt outcome, then you must doubt Creator--you must doubt God. And if you doubt God you must live in fear and guilt all your life.
If you doubt God's intentions--and God's ability to produce this ultimate result--then how can you ever relax? How can you ever truly find peace?
Yet God as full power to match intentions with results. You cannot and will not belive in this (even though you claim that God is all-powerful), and so you have to create in your imagination a power equal to God, in order that you may find a way for God's will to be thwarted. And so you have created in your mythology the being you call "devil". You have even imagined a God as war with this being (thinking that God solves problems the way you do). Finally, you have actually imagined that God could lose this war.
All this violates everything you say you know about God, but this doesn't matter. You live your illusion and thus feel your fear, all out of your decision to doubt God.
But what if you made a new decision? What would be the result?
I tell you this: you would live as the Buddha did. As Jesus did. As did every saint you have ever idolized."
(Quoted from CWG Book 1, pp. 13-15) |
