A close and constant friend

Special subject published in this same issue, written by Christina Nunes, from Rio de Janeiro, all that relates to the Supreme Creator is and always will be of interest to all of us. "God is a constant friend...", says Christina, and is "He is close, very close" to us.

"Once God was a man, today, God is God", it is a well-known thought expressed by Léon Denis. Indeed, the Supreme Being, conceived by us as something relevant to the image of man, it sees today to go out little by little this image, replaced by a formless reality. The definition, time, duration, extent, degree of power or shape is no longer apply to God. And the name God hides an incomplete idea.

The history of the idea of God was always on the intellectual level of the people and their legislators. And even today, when science has advanced so far, the Supreme Being remains an unknown God, as it was to the Vedas or the sages of Athens.

With the knowledge brought by spiritual doctrine, we can at least feel that God is not a metaphysical abstraction, an ideal that does not exist, but a living entity, sensitive, aware: our Father, our guide, our best friend.

Opening the work that is considered the most important spiritist literature, Allan Kardec asks: "What is God?" And the immortal reply: "God is the Supreme Intelligence, first cause of all things." (The Spirits' Book, Question 1.)

It must be admitted, however, that at the stage where we are we cannot understand the nature of God, we lack a sense for it. For the reader to understand what was said, imagine the difficulty of a man born blind - private, for the sense of sight – define and even understand the colors.

It is to us although possible to know and assimilate some of the attributes of the Supreme Being, without which it becomes very difficult for us to understand the greatness of Creation and the work itself.

Let´s examine six of his best-known attributes:

God is unique. There are no gods, but only one God, sovereign of the Universe, absolute Creator and uncreated, infinite and eternal. If there were many gods there would be no unity of views, or power unit in the ordering of the Universe.

God is eternal, that is, has no beginning and no ending. If it'd had principle, it had come out of nowhere or else it would have been created by another being before and, if so, this would be it God. If we supposed it a beginning or an ending, we could conceive of an existing entity before it and able to survive it, and so on, to the infinity.

God is immutable. If the Creator were subject to change, no stability would have the Laws that govern the Universe, whose wisdom none deny or discuss.

God is immaterial, that is, its nature differs from everything we call matter. Otherwise, it would not be immutable, as it would be subject to peculiar changes of matter.

God is omnipotent. If it does not possess the supreme power, it would always design a more powerful entity, and so on, until it gets to the being whose potential exceeded any other. This is so that it would be God.

God is highly just and good. In everything and everywhere appear the goodness and justice of God, especially in the providence that through perfect laws watches his creatures. The providential wisdom of divine laws revealed thus in the smallest things and the larger, and that wisdom does not allow one doubt neither justice nor the goodness of God.

In view of the above, we always have in mind that we cannot and we should not regret anything that happens to us in life, since, by our action or inaction, we have not contributed to such. And the reason of it is simple: God knows what is best for us and it is as noted by Christina Nunes, a close and constant friend.