Seeing God in others

The beauty of God lies not only within you, but within every person you meet in life.

A simple statement I came up with, probably better expressed by others more educated and well versed in spirituality than myself. But, there it is.

My idea behind it is we so often look for God, in the sky, in the Bible, in nature, in ourselves, wherever.

But in my life I have experienced God, or at the minimum a representation of God, in other people. And I am always taught a great lesson as a result.

God exists everywhere and manifests Himself in so many ways I cannot list them here. But one of the many ways He exists and makes Himself known is in the people we interact with, either those people we know or people we only meet incidentally (sometimes especially those people).

God isn't necessarily an active entity making itself manifest in the most obvious way. I believe the entity we know as God exerts Himself (theirself?) in ways we can't comprehend. Perhaps God infiltrates us and exerts their power by flavoring our reactions to other people, thus making it seem that other people are being examples of God.

Just a thought.

But the main idea is God is present in our everyday life. God makes His presence known someway, whether it is obvious (a voice, a calling, an obvious sign) or through some other source in which we perceive God to be acting, another person, a movie, a song etc (thus my theory that God is acting through us to influence our perceptions).

Ok, that last part sounds a bit Big Brotherish. 1984. All that.

But the idea remains, God is active. God is a living entity at work in our world. We can argue ad nauseum why God doesn't prevent disasters and murder etc, but God is real and active. Just look to your neighbor really hard.

You will see God.