God is not because of you; you exist because of Him.
It is not you who pray; it is He who prays through you.
Krishna says to Arjuna (during the Mahabharata War) in the Bhagavad Gita,
”Don’t bring yourself into things. It is He who does, and He who gets things done. It is He who has brought this battle about. He will kill those He wants to kill, He will save those He wants to save. Do not imagine that you are the killer or the savior.”
Krishna has expressed in the whole Gita, and Nanak has said in this sutra:
“It is He who has created the great and the small.”
Let us ponder over this: if it is He who has created all things great and small, then no one is big, no one is small, because all are His creations.
You make a small idol, and also make a big idol - you are the sculptor of both. When there is but one maker, what issue can there be which is big or small?
Our trouble throughout life is that we think in terms of great and small. No matter how hard we try, we cannot become great enough to satisfy our ego.
As soon as you begin to see the hand of the formless within yourself, you immediately will realize the creator / maker is one.
He who makes the grass also creates the majestic pine tree that seems to touch the skies!
If the hand behind both is one and the same, who is great and who is small?
The victory is His, the defeat is His.
We are just pawns in the chess game. The creator does everything; we are the instruments.
There is no one and nothing outside of the divine order. Everything resides within it.