PERSONALNESS OF GOD

Question—Explain how one makes the concept of God personal, especially in connection with prayer. Law is such a cold thing.

ANSWER—When we desert the old idea of God, we have lost something. Because we had a God to Whom we could go, Who we felt could hear and answer. When we think of a government of law we no longer have any Spirit to pray to and we are thrown into a spiritual abyss, but one passes through this state to the realization that we could not be conscious beings unless there were a First-consciousness in the universe. We could not be personified unless there were an Infinite Personalness. So we begin to see that there is an Infinite Personalness in the universe, an Infinite Presence (not an infinite person), the abstract and universal cause of all personalities. The it begins to dawn upon us that where our life is personified God is personified. So we regain the old (page 8) idea of a personal God but with a less limited sense. "Who made the eyes, shall He not see. Who made the ears, shall He not hear. Who made the understanding, shall He not understand!" The personal God returns to us and is in us. Prayer becomes a communion and not a petition. The wave dips up from the ocean of Infinity and personifies itself through all people, hence, it is personal to all who understand its inner presence.

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