The Supreme Duty

A quick introspect to the thousands of years of mankind’s genealogy, man’s search for God has led down many pathways. This has hence opened door to enormous diversity of religious expression found world over-from the monotheism of Judaism, Islam, and Christendom to the endless variety of Hinduism, to the oriental philosophies of Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. In other vast regions, mankind has turned to Animism, magic, spiritism and shamanism. And the search still goes on, and on. And the world still moves on.

Perhaps one should ask what God does for a living? Or may be ask what his daily tasks are? Yes. The later seems simpler to navigate in acknowledgement of the one-who –is-above’s supremacy. One of his major tasks is the making of human beings. From the Holy Scriptures, we are told that the first human being was fashioned out of the soil. And whether this was loam, clay or sandy is rather a complicated matrix, at the same time, rhetoric, and that the jig-saw pieces can only be fixed by this maker of all that crawl and fly.
This first man as well had unique features too. For instance, he was never a baby. He was just a full grown up person. This means that he never had a biological mother. From the same literature, the same story also applies to the second human being, Eve.

God still continues with his mission of making human beings. He however uses a different schedule in this same project. He has ever since manufactured human beings, but this time as babies. Initially, our maker exercised capability to make man, with all the features a fully grown up person has, posing challenge as to why he reversed the trend to doing the same as babies! May be, the feedstock necessary to model full man is scarce at once for too many products. Such raw material as enamel for teeth, whether he is making a child of the dentist or not, all shall be born toothless; the fine protein collagen for the pubic hair, beards, breasts blah, blah, blah are evidently absent at birth.

Then the Almighty’s auto responder system makes available respective deficit body accessories in due time the body comes of age. And whether man puts all these wealthy additives to use is a by the way point to ponder. We could for instance have a look at our finger nails. These accessories can win one a medal at an aesthetic contest. Conversely, these same finger nails can still be used to dutifully inscribe disciplinary marks on another when that invisible “Tiger” in us is provoked. But whether the nails on our toes equally compare their finger counterparts is absolutely negotiable.

God’s other major task is listening to prayers. Some people say their prayers in the morning, others in the afternoon, others in the evening, some say prayers at regular intervals in the course of the day, others do it once in a while. Yet others do not know just what to pray about! One morning just before getting out of bed, someone was overheard saying the following the following lines:
Lord God. Thank you getting me through the night.
Last night lord,
I asked you to help me never to sulk and fight
Never to gossip and quarrel….
But I just realized lord
Such dreams are easier to keep
When a child is asleep
Today lord I ask
To help me keep these dream while awake….

Back to our creator’s human laboratory, we marvel at the kaleidoscope of the products at his disposal: he maketh some men tall; others short; others fat; others slim; some are black; others are white, others colored. But all are made red inside. The variation in God’s creation is an exclusive barometer for his supreme architectural blue print. Or may be he brings this about to see man’s reaction to his creation?