God is greater than All That Is.

There are two main points for everyone to accept, whether easily understood or not. One is that God is greater than the collection of All That Is. The second is that you belong in your own way to the response of God. Both of these truths exist side-by-side.

God is indeed greater than all that has been created, for all that was created was created by God. You did not create yourself. The stones did not create themselves. The birds did not create themselves. The universe that you know of did not create itself. Nothing that exists has created itself. When there is creation, there is the Creator, and there is all that is a part of that creation.

A candle gets its energy from something else. The light that you have originates with God, and it is that original illumination that is then expanded upon and broadened and deepened. But first there was that light. Without that first candle, without the energy of that first light’s existence, nothing else can possibly exist.

Therefore, God as the Creator presupposes that in a significant way there is the presence of God, and then there is what God creates. You contain that light. No one is fully God, but you do not have to be fully God in order to contain that light in equal measure that is God’s light.