Without God

Without God
Dr. Dennis Ginoza November 12, 2009

Millions are walking this earth without God. How easy that can be. One’s physical needs are so essential that we cannot see beyond them. The social conflicts, the political struggles, and the economic plights have created such turmoil, we have built walls around ourselves which are keeping us from reaching the finer level of spirit.
Plato gave us the allegory of the cave where people are chained and cannot see beyond the moving shadow cast upon a wall. Reality is distorted and what is an illusion is deemed the truth.
We have created a different world for ourselves, illusive, denial ridden, and distorted. This is the world without God. We have become like those whose limits are keeping them from seeing, sensing, and appreciating a world of beauty, truth, and divinity.
Without God, our world is characterized by limits rather than possibilities. We miss a lot. When we are not in harmony with our world which is so filled with God-energies, God-elements, and God-forces, we enter what Leslie Weatherhead calls “a state of dis-ease.” Human experience is conveying to us that living without God is creating for us a greater state of dis-ease. This state has reached a level of great personal and global concern.
Without God, we become like the blind that cannot see the sunset, the deaf that cannot hear the melody of Mozart and Handel, the violent natured who is kept from hearing the birds sing or a voice of love, the uncultured who gets nothing from the halls of great paintings, or the social cripple who fails to build bridges of lasting relationships. Our God relationship is suffering.
In the short run, it appears we can survive without God. In the long run, we see we cannot. The Christian experience simply calls us to step over a line into the light of day. The Bible speaks of “coming to oneself.” Psychology suggests “getting in touch.” Biology hints at “rebuilding onself.” Theology offers “conversion.” Philosophy explores “a new era of thought.”
It is time to step over the line and once again discover a life with God. There seems to be no other way.