Bucket O' Bulletz

[continued from yesterday's post...only one more installmet to go!]
I have had some measure of success comprehending a God that is too big to see in any image. It may seem sacrilegious to some, but it will set you free to the degree that you grasp the truth of it. God is too big to be contained. Person is a container. Father is a container. He is a container. We’ve made these concepts in our image and likeness and we need to abandon them. Everytime you think of a zebra, you will see stripes. Change your concept of God. Elevate Him above the things which do appear. Author Richard Bach referred to God as “the perfect invisible Principle of all life”. Not a bad statement, for a seagull. God introduced Himself to Moses as Iam, but we still tend to see that as a name rather than a Truth. Another word for “I am” is Consciousness. No, you don’t have to be a guru to use the word. Consciousness has all the God-qualities…no beginning or end …omnipresent …all knowing …infinite …pure …holy …and it’s not an old man with a white beard! When nothing els
e exists – Consciousness still is. The name Jehovah means Self-existing One. One who is Self-sustaining. God doesn’t require anything else to cause Him to exist, and neither does Consciousness.What was here before anything was created? Before form, before energy, before time and space, before thought? In the eternal nothingness of an empty void, one Is-ness filled all of eternity: the uncreated I AM. Although it would not be accurate to put a time perspective on all this, I believe we could say without error that all the creation we are now enjoying unfolded from the eternal I AM. However, the original perfection of I AM has never changed. What appears as creation is an image in the likeness of the original uncreated Is-ness. Pure, holy, Is-ness.
It is likely that all this is shocking to you. No doubt, it is confusing at first. You knew that God was not “a thing”, but to cross the fine line over to “no thing”, seems sacrilegious. It may help you to meditate on the idea that “everything” and “nothing” are the same. We favor formed things, believing that something has more substance, more value than no-thing. Just the reverse is true. The unformed thing (Spirit?) is the Father of all formed things. Spirit is the Master, Form is the servant. The servant cannot be greater than the Master. God has always exhorted us not to worship any created thing. Sherlock Holmes would tell you that howe
ver illogical, we must conclude that He meant for us to worship an uncreated non-thing. Didn’t Jesus the Christ become nothing, that He might become exalted above all things? When Peter exhalted himself, was he not immediately brought to nothing? The scripture also states that when you empty yourself, I AM can fill you with glory.
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple . . .Rev 15:8 Man is the temple of God, but so is an atom, a solar system and the entire universe. If the universe were empty, it would still be filled with the glory of the Great I AM, the eternal Isness.
The present realm we are existing in is that of cause and effect. We can’t say if we’ll be subject to cause and effect eternally, but we are definitely in that school for the moment. What we need to learn here is that chasing after the effects will get us nowhere. Let’s say we decide we want to have a million dollars. In that desire our soul is crying out for money, but our spirit wants what money represents: independence, peace, and happiness. Money is an effect and so cannot cause us to have peace. That’s why you can have chaos and strife even with money. Another person may dream about owning a home. What is it that a home represents? Security? Stability? Whatever it is, that’s what they’re really seeking. Owning a home cannot cause these things. It is another effect. However, if one finds peace, security and stability by grasping that which causes these things to be, it doesn’t matter if they own a home or have great wealth. I’ll illustrate this using a firecracker. What is the effect of a firecracker? The bang. What is the cause of the bang? Gunpowder wrapped in paper, set afire. Someone hears a bang, and desires to have bangs of their own. They visit all kinds of stores asking, “Do you have a bang?” The answer is invariably, “No”, and they soon become frustrated. “Can you believe this town doesn’t have a single bang?” Suddenly, they hear another bang. Rushing to the scene they ask, “Where did that bang come from?” Why, from a firecracker, is the answer. Now they are able to seek out that which causes the bang and produce bangs as often as they light firecrackers.
What is the cause, or source of all the effects we would see manifest as our life?
Come back tomorrow for the final installment!