G.O.D.

A company now out of business was known as G.O.D., an acronym for Guaranteed Overnight Delivery. This resonates with how many Christians want God to serve them: Overnight, or better yet, immediately. But does God deliver in this sense? 

So, where does God live?

Would you believe us if we said “Kearny, New Jersey”?

That’s what you might think if you drove by a certain trucking terminal in that city — until 2004, at least, when the company ceased operations. On the side of its building was a huge sign that said: “Welcome to the home of G.O.D.”

It wasn’t the God you’re thinking of. The company’s name was Guaranteed Overnight Delivery. “G.O.D.” was its playfully blasphemous acronym.

The company had it painted on the side of its trucks in huge letters. It also displayed G.O.D. on the trucks’ mud flaps. For years, those tractor-trailer trucks caused drivers throughout the Northeast, and even beyond, to do double-takes.

“Does God deliver?” some motorists asked themselves in astonishment, as a G.O.D. truck roared past.

Ask that question of the writer of Psalm 91, and the answer you’ll get back is: “Well, yes.” But not...