How You See God Makes all the Difference

This is the how and why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom.(AA, pg 62)

"We had to quit playing God" -- What did this mean, I wondered.

It meant, basically, that we have all the answers, or that we have to protect ourselves throughout this life.

"God was going to be our Director." This in itself is just not enough.

"He is the Principal; we are His agents."

"He is the Father, and we are His children."

Director, then Principal, then Father - what is God supposed to be for us? All of this made little headway, had little value for me, though since I was so consumed with the lie that no matter what God was doing in my life, it was up to me to keep the spiritual connection clean, so that I would never be cut off from him.

How can anyone talk about God as Director, Principal, and Father all in one throw? The relationships of each type of leader or supervisor are based on an entirely different basis altogether.

Let's go back to the Bible:

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

"Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1: 12-13)

We have to be born again through the Holy Spirit, by whom we then receive the Spirit of Sonship:

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8: 15)

"Abba" means "Daddy" in Hebrew, the most intimate term between father and child, and certainly closer and cozier that "Director" or "Principal".

We can call God "Daddy" because His Son, Jesus, became sin on the Cross in our place, and through His death we receive the Holy Spirit and the adoption of sons.

How we see God indeed makes all the difference. See Him as your "Daddy", have no confusion about who you are to Him!