Did you ever wonder how God does it all, day in and day out?

By David McClelland

I have wondered about that question all of my life and I have come up with one possible explanation. Of course, the simple answer is that He does it ALL by Himself because He can. But, just HOW does He do it all?

I believe that He can to it all by Himself, but I also believe that He is way too intelligent to continue to do it all by Himself now that the world population has reached over 6,775,000,000 people. So, who helps Him? My short answer is that "We all do."

OK, but who are "We?" By "We," I mean all of the Christians who live today and all who have ever lived since Jesus Christ was born.

We Christians on Earth, are all who have been, in my "answer," baptized. We have been Deputised to help with God's work on Earth. We help each other every day and we pray for God's help whenever and wherever we need His assistance. We really do try to assist with God's work in our daily lives. We always fall short of perfection, but we keep on trying and, over time, we do get better at these important tasks. And, no matter how much success we have in assisting God, we continue to strive to improve and to achieve more.

All Christians who have gone before us and are now "living" with God in Heaven, are also deputised to assist God with his multitudes of tasks as well. God evaluates the qualifications and talents of each new soul and uses him or her to assist Him with many, but not all, of His tasks.

For example, first and foremost, I suspect that God asks former Popes, priests, bishops and ministers, of all faiths, to listen to our daily prayers and to prioritize them by urgency and importance. Some will be assigned the easy tasks of listening to our prayers of thanksgiving. Others will be asked to assist with the selection process of assigning incoming souls to the tasks for which they are best qualified. Others are asked to be alert to prayers to relieve suffering. Others are asked to watch over travelers and still others to get prospective mothers through their pregnancies and childbirth. Former doctors are asked to watch over and guide the minds and hands of current doctors on Earth in their day-to-day caring for their patients and assisting with God's work here. You get the idea.

God also asks others to assist Him with the care and feeding of the souls in Heaven, a much easier assignment.

If you can accept most of, if not all of, the above, what then, do I believe that God does, Himself? I believe that He is like the CEO of the Universe and monitors the work of each and every one of his Deputies. He remains alert so that He may step in whenever and wherever necessary, any time that He is really needed. For example, he know when He must personally "answer" a prayer. When He must, He does; i.e., when God speaks to us, He does NOT do so via a Deputy. I am comforted by that part of my answer as well. I'd hate to think that His answer to our prayers my get garbled in the translation.

Why, then, are not ALL prayers answered, if God has all of this help? The answer to that question is the same as it has always been. They are, but not always in the most direct, obvious and timely manner. And, in many instances, God trusts us to work out our own solutions to our own problems. In those cases, that is His answer; i.e., He thinks that we can provide good solutions to our own problems, we should.

That, in a nutshell, is how I believe that God gets it all done and I'm glad to help.