What if there is a God

Usually, my blogs usually land on a lighter note not asking you to think too much, but it was interesting yesterday and thought I would ask the question. I was at the mall and the timing could not have been more perfect. Two young boys, probably about ten or eleven, maybe about fifth grade, were walking down the mall next to me. As they walked by, I heard one, apparently answering a question from the other say "...yeah, I believe in god...." I don't know what the question was or what context it was in. It was just a snapshot in time. But, here's the question. What if there is a god?

I guess we have to assume the definition over thousands of years, that God is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, perfect is as good as any for a starting definition. I assume the term 'god' means that. So, what if-there is one? How would that effect or change us, if there was, you know-a god?

What if there was a god and he fit in the above description?

What if there was a god who was the most powerful?

What if there was a god who was all-knowing?

What if there was a god who was all-loving?

So, we struggle with why things happen that are so against what we think god should allow. We get angry, we run. We come up with our own definition of who and what god is. Good valid reasons and questions.

Why would god allow a child to die or be molested or tortured for years?
Why would god allow disease-eating away families from the inside, costing them physically, emotionally, draining them.
Why would god allow war? Thousands-millions dying or homeless.
What if some guy went his whole life running from drink to drink, deal to deal, living on the 'edge' because his nightmares from Korea, Vietnam, some other trauma keep him running.
And what about all this science stuff showing bangs and pulsars, quasars, black holes and don't even mention Daffy Duck planting a flag on Mars with a real Martian. If there was such a thing as this god we speak of, he or she or it wouldn't allow such things. So, the math equation is pretty easy- excessive bad things=proof there is no god.

Unless-

Well, what if the definition of this god is well, true?

If it is true, then answers are as big as the definition, infinite maybe. So big we couldn't plan or predict them. If we had a thousand years and the best minds in the world working just for us, our answers to these problems wouldn't be worth the paper we wrote them on compared to, well, God's.

That kid that died? What if God knew their suffering and ended it and now that child is sitting on a perfect 'lap.' Their suffering for years? What if God ended the suffering years before they were destined to go and now that child helps others deal with their own issues.

What if that disease opens up dialog with a family that for years have been estranged and now are all standing around the same bed-crying together, united once again as a family tighter than ever before?

What if war, ends bondage and enslavement of mind and body. What if Good, really did defeat Evil?

What if that moving and shaking guy now has resolved his hate and pain because this god guy took it from him and replaced it with a heart for others. But he had to endure it for years so it refined him and prepared him for just this?

And what if all this science stuff, well, what if all this science stuff really is science stuff? What if the guy who invented all the things and places and how things work and planets and suns and how a dog shakes so hard it rains actually allows us to see how some of this stuff works because it shows us a little about how He works and He knows it amuses us in figuring things like this out.

What if we really can be as smart as a fifth grader?