Is God Domesticated?

 

 

Have we converted God

Rather than He converting us?

Have we finally converted Him

Such that in us He trusts?

 

Are we now wagging Him

Like a dog wags its tail

And feel with him in our control

We cannot fail?

 

Oft we pray in this way

As though we are in control

And God has to meet our request;

Why, isn’t this bold?

 

Like domesticated animals

Trained to do our bidding:

The dog, the cat, the horse, the ass;

And I am not kidding.

 

 

 

God is no man’s debtor,

The Bible surely points out,

The fact that everything is His

Leaves no doubt.

 

He spoke into becoming

All that we see and experience,

Without Him was and is nothing

That is in existence.

 

Even our breath is His

From the very first one,

And to the time that is appointed

When the last is gone.

 

So, to the Jewish ethnicity

And to all other peoples

God belongs to no particular nation,

Including Israel.

 

 

 

None can domesticate Him

Or Him monopolize:

No President, no Pope, no Priest;

Or Satan who lies.

 

For it is a blatant lie

That God can be controlled,

Whether by prayer or supplication

Or intercession untold.

 

Whether in church or out

Let there be no doubt

That God is the only sovereignty

And no other has clout.

 

 

 

All power is His

And all kingdoms as well

And nowhere without His jurisdiction;

Not even hell.

 

Read the book of Job

And discover what He saw:

God is the Omnipotent Wise One;

In Him there is no flaw.

 

You’d better be on His side

And do what He requires

For He is no respecter of persons

And does what He desires.

 

Stewart Russell © October 29, 2025