“How does this apply to God?” you may wonder, “After all, God is neither a sorcerer nor wizard.” Truly God is neither sorcerer nor wizard, but then God is extremely concerned about the issue of worship. In the Holy Bible, we were told of a great battle in heaven, in which God’s Archangels succeeded in casting down Lucifer, the hitherto favored angel who turned ‘bad’ to earth. Lucifer, popularly known as Satan the devil, was said to have committed what the earthly judicial system might called ‘treasonable felony’ - he dared to receive worship like God! God did not intend to share His glory with anyone, certainly not Lucifer. Perhaps another pointer to God’s position on worship (praise) was in the nineteenth chapter of Luke, in the fortieth verse; when Jesus the Christ, assured that stones will (be made to) praise God should men hold their peace! From immortal heavenly hosts, to mere mortal man, the requirement for the creatures to acknowledge, praise, and worship the creator - God, can therefore not be over-emphasized.
‘Progress’ in science and medical technology like stem-cell, nanotechnology, hold a very great potential for longer life, and unimagined opportunity for mankind. Mankind is approaching the treasured destination – Godlike and immortality.
As mankind continue to gravitate further away from God towards science and technology, towards money and power, Darwinism and secularism; as mankind continue to rationalize sexual anomalies like same-sex marriage, homo-sexualism, and the likes, a time will come when the line between good and evil will be blurred. Mankind may depend lesser and lesser on the spiritual for guidance. And ultimately develop lesser and lesser reverence for God, and what He stands for.
But does this mean that God depends on His creations’ praise and worship for relevance, and sustenance? What would God do if mankind deliberately or unconsciously chooses to forget Him? Would God become an endangered being? In other words, would God go quietly into the night (vanish from man’s memory) should mankind stop praising and worshiping him as it is happening in some western nations? Would He vanish like mist or myth like it happened to the sorceress Mab in the aforementioned Arthurian legend, when forgotten by Merlin and the people? Or would God seeing that man’s heart is turning against him, reach out in His divinely interventionist way with confusion like he did to the Tower builders of Babel, or with cleansing flood like He did to the Noah’s generation in Genesis of the Holy Bible? Or will He send again His only begotten son to show us the way back home (Christ second coming)? Will the famous futuristic final conflict of good versus evil then take place – Armageddon? Or will God simply walk away from His creatures, and perhaps, in a planet in a distant galaxy, prepare another ‘primordial soup’, that evolutionary scientists claimed theoretical life ultimately evolved from?
While we may not know exactly what God will do or not, or what will become of God or man, we can at least decide what we do. Showing our children the way to God’s house is indeed the least we can do. For while many of us may not be standing around when that time might come, our off-springs, or our great (great, great …) grand off-springs may. A little seed of spirituality today, might give them a stepping stone tomorrow. I really don’t think God needs us, as much as we need him. An African adage says: “A river that forgets its source soon dries up.” In a conflict of wit, and might, between the most intelligent mortal - man, and an ageless being - God, do you honestly believe that man stood a chance?
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