Imagine you were God, a good God – how do you think you would act?
Perhaps you would create a world, speaking it into existence in the way that only you could, one that reflected, not only your almighty power, but your inherent goodness too. Perhaps you’d inhabit that world with creatures that would enjoy both who you were and what you’d made, not because of any neediness in you, but because you understood that true happiness comes from admiring the truly admirable. And perhaps, recognising that right and wrong are objective, determined by what you yourself decree them to be, you’d insist on certain behaviours but, at the same time, be prepared, by humbling yourself, even to the point of death, to forgive transgressions in order to restore all that got broken and reconcile even those who rebelled against you.
But imagine now that you only thought you were God, but were in fact only a man – how do you think you would act then?
Perhaps you would strut around the world stage as if you owned the place when in fact it belonged to somebody else. Perhaps, desperate to be admired, you’d disparage others whilst surrounding yourself with those who told you how great you were, those who, somehow able to suspend their own disbelief, could buy into the lie you yourself persisted in propagating. Perhaps you’d make proclamations, believing, despite evidence to the contrary, that what you’d said was true simply because you’d spoken. And perhaps, having arrogantly promised to save the world, you’d lose your temper when it emerged you were not the self professed messiah you seemed to believe you were and people didn’t always do what you told them they should.
What a tragedy that would be – not only because of how foolish you would prove yourself to be, but because yours would be an ugly parody of what is, in fact, beautifully true.
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