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What if God Was One of Us

Updated on July 1, 2010

What if God was one of us? In the movie Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman is delightful as God and also is the homeless dude holding up cardboard signs throughout the film. The homeless guy morphs into Morgan in the last few frames--making the point I guess, that God might be anyone and just might be the one you are least likely to expect him to portray.

I think if God was one of us, He would be a little pissed at having to put up with our constant bickering and complaining. Maybe He would let drop a few bombshells about what we were really thinking. If he was the homeless woman with a shopping cart asking if you could help her out and you said: "No." It would be great if He said "Well what about the fifty dollars you were going to spend on a fresh brand of sunglasses? Or the hundred you were saving folded in your wallet?" I would love to see that unless I was the one holding out, of course.

If He was a contestant on the Iron Chef competition, I could just hear the moderator: "I can't believe it, our new chef just made ten new original dishes and enough servings to feed the whole television audience using only five biscuits and three sardines and cooked them without using any heat or implements. I think we have a winner!"

Or if he was janitor on Scrubs and walking by the ER he hears "We've lost him, time of death--no wait, look his heart is beating, and the cancer's gone and who let those doves in here?"

Maybe you are talking to your little brother whom you hate because he never gets into trouble and you are always being yelled at for little things like roasting the dog's tail in the campfire or using your Mom's bra for a kite--and anyway your brother says "Maury, I hate to break it to you but I'm God." For a split second you begin to wonder about that time he was in the middle of the street and a semi was coming right at him and he just seemed to appear on the other side of the street or when Mrs. Baker asked everyone in Sunday School if they knew all the Hebrew names of Jehovah and he raised his hand--but then common sense returned and you boxed his ears for being such a smart a@%.

What if the guy who lived in a cardboard box near the train tracks was God and when you always passed by looking the other way while he was smiling and waving to you, you hurt his feelings because he was just trying to talk to you and tell you that he was really proud of you even though you did take that five dollars out of the offering plate that time.

If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in jesus and the saints and all the prophets

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ~ Eric Bazilian


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