Suffice This Wee World

Our God takes on many forms, yet stays One.
As Jesus John dipped, the Father onlooked,
And the Spirit in a dove, all three done,
But no divine function was left forsook;
No work undone over the rest of earth.
In Job's whirlwind, the Father spoke, and yet
The planet's work went on, o'er all its girth;
None called on Him that He failed to abet.
The mind of God is not a single-track,
That He must end one job to start anew;
He's never so busy His children must lack;
Or a lost one's plea's unattended to.
He Who spoke the stars to be and append,
Suffice this wee world its affairs attend!

New Christians often become confused and discouraged at the many names the Bible uses for God. They may even get the wrong idea that our one God is really three. If you will go to the archives of my blogs and click on Call Him Not Thief, the commentay will explain and list a number of different names used at various places for God.

The poem above refers to the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in the Jordan River, found in Matthew 3:13-16. There are all three forms of the Trinity---Father, Son, and Holy Spirit---appearing simultaneously. The main subject of the poem is the greatness of our God. and how, even though He may appear in two or three different forms at the same instant, He is so magnificent that all of the affairs He customarily deals with are cared for efficiently and equally well.

The Muslims' god is Allah and is considered by them emphatically to be one being. Perhaps their biggest criticism of Christianity is that we have three gods. Some Christians are confused and they might say, "Christians and Muslims worship the same god." This is a definite falsehood. If we who think that are simply uninstructed and not just being kind or politically correct, we ought to read an English translation of the Qur'an, or any book about Islam. We will see quickly that the characteristics and attributes of Allah are violent, impersonal, and unattached, while those of Jehovah God, are loving, personal, and deeply involved in the affairs of men. They are not the same. God is getting very angry at the impertinence of Muslims who deny that He is God by their substitution of Allah. Even President Bush is quoted as saying that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all worship the same god. It is doubtful that he is confused with the expert advisors he has; I think he was speaking as president and being politically correct. It is a tremendous benefit to Islam to keep that kind of fuzzy thinking prevalent in America, because it keeps us asleep to the danger we face.

Christians, let's be precise about what we're supposed to do about Islam. We are told to love everybody, friends, enemies, and non-acquaintances. We are not to hate them. As a nation, though, we must be alert to enemies of freedom. Our nation has fought many wars and lost many soldiers in war defending our liberty. There is evidence that Islam hates us, not only by the September 2001 attack that killed more Americans than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but by the numerous other attacks in the last 40 years. More than that, the Qur'an explicitly includes Christians as Islam's target to take over our nation and subject us to the dictatorship of shari'a law and religion, and all followers of Islam, radical and moderate are deeply involved in everything in the Qur'an. Beheading is specifically endorsed for those who have been conquered and who refuse to worship Allah. So, what do we do? Paraphrasing a WW2 popular song, we "praise God and pass the ammunition", and when we win, we love them and try to convert them.