The Power Within

The concept of God is meaningless if it is not aligned with the concept of power.  Even God cannot fulfill its universally recognized roles of creator and sustainer of the Universe unless it is, at very least, powerful. God must be full of power simply because without power god is just -- not God.  No people ever paid homage to a week God.  No one worships a God who the believe to be powerless.  No one boasts of his allegiance to a God who can do nothing.  God must, at very least , be believed to have enough power to protect and defend worshippers from the hostile forces of the world or God cannot logically be an object of veneration.  Religion too is dependent on power.  Religion is universally defined as the belief in a supernatural power, but a power nonetheless. To the extent that religion serves to bring humanity closer to the realizaion of God it simultaneously serves to bring humanity to the realization of spiritual power.  In our pious genuflections, devoted prayers, mysterious rituals and other acts of adoration we seek favor with spiritual power by flattery.  Here is a truly provocative, powerful and even revolutionary idea.  No matter how you call it, in the final analysis, we cannot escape the fact that God is power.