Your God is too small!

I awoke from a dream with the words going round in my head….. Your God is too small.

In the dream I had somehow been aware of times of need or grief or fear when I had turned to prayer and yet the words came – Your God is too small. God could not be conceived or as merely a personal support or guide or means of finding peace or healing.

Then I had noted matters with the family as a whole where I had cried out for help and support – but again the words had come, Your God is too small. God was not just their to look after those I love and worry for.

I thought of our community and nation. Times of pandemic and threats of war. And yet the words repeated, Your God is too small. God is not there to fulfil nationalistic pride and desires – to support wone nation against another.

I had dreamed of the poverty and starvation and displacement of people around the world. But still the insistent – Your God is too small. God is not just about the human race and its needs and its amazing ability for cruelty and partisanship.

Then there was the whole earth. That beautiful blue planet seen in space pictures, countries I have visited, landscapes, amazing animals, varieties of religious activity, steams and mountains. Oceans and deserts helping bring the understanding of how small we are. The power of storms and earthquakes and the wildness of fires and floods. An earth being wilfully destroyed despite the knowledge of what is required. Pray for this world but again I heard - Your God is too small!

In my dream I travelled to the edges of the known universe. Billions of stars and galaxies. Deep spaces bigger than our planet itself. Beauty and light and darkness and nothingness all combined and linked and operating in unison. Some huge galaxies dying as new ones were born. Still, I heard the voice – Your God is too small. If we conceive of any God then God cannot be contained even in our wildest dreams of the immensity of what we know and are yet to discover.

As we consider the heavens and the earth – what are people to be to be mindful of.

You are a tiny part of all this – yet and integral part. Like the swirling stars and galaxies, you have your own part in the immensity of all that is.

Perhaps that is the task of our lives – to find our place, our function within all that is, to recognise that we cannot master any of it and have no right too, but we are part of it all – intimately connected with everything that is.

And in the end we will try as we might but will know for certain that our God is too small. Yet we are part of the energy and majesty of space. Part of our families and nation and earth. One with the mountains, and streams and all living creatures. Knowing this connection just might bring us to the deepening love of all things that we might do our part not to destroy other people, other nations, out beautiful planet or to see space as yet another thing to be mastered and controlled rather than treated with awe and respect.