Everybody, even atheists, have a god

Everybody has a god, even atheists. Some people become confused about who their god is, but we all have a god. In order to discover what or who is god in a person’s life he or she needs to know exactly what a god is.

In the English Encarta Dictionary noun definition 3, it states God is “something that is so important that it takes over somebody’s life.”

With this definition in mind, a person can start the process of learning what or who is their god. For some it is a damaging addiction such as sex, drugs, alcohol or something apparently harmless like sports. For some, sports is all important in life. They either have to be playing or watching sports on TV. For other people it is a car, house, job, money or other material possession. Some even place their spouse or health care in this position. Each person should ask what the most important thing in their life is. What will they sacrifice everything for? When all else fails, friends disappear, a cardboard box is home, and everything a person owns can be put in one hand, what a person believes in will identify their god.

For Christians, I ask if the rapture were at the moment you are reading this, would you ask Jesus, “Hold on I need to …”

If that is the case, then you may want to review who your god is. For the non-Christians who read and comment on these articles, yes you have a god too. Everybody has the all important whatever. The big question is, is your god the right one?

Several years ago, in the space of a few hours much ofwhat my family owned was destroyed in a fire. This was to be the beginning of a learning curve for me about God. Over the next six months my family went through two major car accidents, broken bones, a near-death experience and two major health problems. The end of the six months was apexed by a second house fire. The second fire destroyed nearly everything we owned: tools, equipment, home and business (the cloths we were wearing at the time of the fire weren’t ours).

As we stood on the wreckage of the house hours after the fire department had put it out my wife asked me what we were going to do. “Rebuild” was my only answer.

“How? We have no insurance, no money and no resources,” She asked.

My response was three words: “God will provide.”

Within 6 months a small cabin sat on the spot where the house had burned, God had provided. I write about this not to draw sympathy, but for the lessons we learned, which were well worth the cost. We know how God can provide. We know who our God is, we know the power he has. My God has existed since the beginning of the world. My God has never lost a battle. My God never breaks down, wears out, gets lost or stolen, nor does he go out of style. My God is a living God, my God travels wherever I go and he is with me no matter what is happening. My God responds when I call on him in prayer and forgives me when I trespass on him. He is a loving God who passes all understanding. Again I ask who/what is your god?

This is a rhetorical question. I do not want to know the answer, but each person should know who or what their god is.

As a side note, after the second house fire God was good to his promise. New and better replaced old and nearly worn out. My God provided.

Mike Blodgett is chaplain at Lighthouse Chapel. He can be contacted at 373-5866 or at lighthouse_chapelak@yahoo.com.