Opus 2024-330: Dark Thoughts: First Person Possessive

I found myself thinking about “my God”.  It struck me that it was a little bit strange for this finite creature, who sometimes can’t even remember where he put his keys, to be acting like God is a possession.  I’d probably think of it that way sometimes but not when my mind is turned on.

Yahweh, the God of heaven, the creator of the Earth, the everlasting, the first and last is my God, but not in the sense that I say, “This is my teddy bear”.  It’s not like me saying this is my home or this is my car.  God is not an object that we process.  He is not something we control.  In fact, it’s just the opposite.

When I say “my God”, it’s more the idea that I have been allowed to be a part of something much bigger than myself.  For instants, say I worked at Tesla.  I could say that this is “my company”.  I don’t think that Elon Musk would get offended at such a thing.  He would know what I meant.  He would know that I meant I was a part of something much bigger and faster than myself.  And that since I said “Yahweh is my God” I can address Him that way and both He and I know what I mean.

I think of a quote that is attributed to Abraham Lincoln.  It is something like, “It’s not so important if God is on our side as to our being on God’s side.”  He offered me a place on the assembly line.  All the management positions were filled, but at the bottom He had  a slot for another soul.  One of the great things about God as the CEO of eternity is His open door policy.

So I start the morning thinking about “my God.”

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