God is not a conclusion
Resulting for man’s intrusion,
Neither is He some religious illusion
Out of our confusion.
God is not our narrative
Thus, our creation or idol,
Neither is He some three-wish genie
We call on when in trouble.
God is not the figment
Of some insane imagination
Or of some mega church apostle
To woo his congregation.
No creature can cage up God
No matter who or what,
This Universe is not big enough
To build for Him a box.
Nothing can contain God
Except a believer’s heart
And such by God’s own initiation
From the very start.
For He dares to indwell
The heart of the born-again
Not entrapped like a fairy genie,
But therein to reign.
A human body, His temple
Unlike the temple of old
Which once designed for His worship
Became an object of gold.
A replacement for God,
An idolatrous albatross
By which, all seeming to be gain,
Was eventual loss.
Stone cannot contain God
Or the gold of the world,
Only His eternal infallible Truth
Aka, the Living Word.
By God’s own allowance
A house was built for God
But for men it became a Babel,
Only not as tall.
Soon this temple had to go
As Jesus himself predicted
And like an errant unpaying tenant,
Old Israel was evicted.
To rubble and to stone
It was razed to the ground
Such that even up to the present,
No Jew is temple bound.
There’s news about one
To be rebuilt in the future
But any such endeavor, I dare say,
Misses the bigger picture.
God lives not in houses
Or church or edifice grand
But in the hearts of His children
That dare to take a stand.
A stand against all wrong
Regardless of the source,
A stand against every injustice
That the lawless enforce.
God is not the end result
Of some Socratic syllogism,
Neither of logical deductive reasoning
Nor human mechanism.
But, the Alpha and Omega
Without beginning or end:
Not the beginning, but the Beginner,
As the Scriptures contend.
God is our Saviour,
The Saviour of the World,
Indwelling every believer’s heart
That harkens to His Word.
Stewart Russell © March 21, 2025
