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Sunday, 23 March 2025

The God and “my god”

 Saying ”my god” to someone is very different to saying ”God”. My god is someone I am relying to save me, look after my deepest needs, to be my ultimate hope, to save me. But that is not the same as recognising someone as The God. The God is the one from whom all saving power ultimately comes. So someone saying ”my god” to Jesus is expressing that their hope has rightly to be placed in Jesus, to be their ultimate ever-living hope, the one they feel they can always trust to save them. At the same time, they recognise that Jesus himself has the Father as his hope, his saviour, to look after his deepest needs, and the only reason Jesus can be “my god” is because his own god is the Father, The God, from whom his own divinity comes. Jesus cannot save without having the Father give him that divinity, that saving wisdom, love, and power. The Father is thus the one true God. Being the true God is by being the ultimate source of saving qualities of anyone who might be rightly called ”my god”.