God is the power that sustains life and order. If God were to perish, the universe we perceive would immediately plunge into chaos. Stars and planets would careen out of control. Our Sun would erupt in a Super Nova. All life would perish. The last vestiges of energy would burn out. Then; Nothing. God Is; we are. God Is Not; nothing is.
The life sustaining energies we receive from Creation is the direct result of the life giving forces created for the natural processes of human life. The life sustaining forces we take for granted are the metabolic functions and other functions of our human body and our human mind that define our species. Creation made our world and set into motion all the forces that create and maintain life. Creation sustains a perpetuating process in a wide range of life expectancy between and within classes of living organisms.
If a species has an average life span of only a few hours, a few days, fourscore and seven years, or a life span of two hundred years, or nine hundred sixty-nine years, this life sustaining process is available to all living things. Even human beings who don't live a life that is consistent with Creation's need for human existence still receive the same primary source of life sustaining physical energy. We can compromise this physical energy prematurely through carelessness and greed, but we all will continue to receive it until we die or pass on the next level of existence in whatever form Creation has designed for us after we discard or are relieved of our human body.
Given that fact of our creation, it is incumbent upon us to consider again the question of the quid pro quo. If each of us receives Creations life sustaining physical energy and can be successful regardless of any relationship with Creation; what, one may ask, is the advantage of working to cultivate an intimate relationship with God?
God does not co-exist with human beings in three-dimensional form. Therefore Creation's gifts and rewards to us may not always be apparent to those of us whose expectations of gifts and rewards are based solely on a three-dimensional reality.
Creation's Power in its purest form is God's Authority Over Energy. Creation can chastise us with too much of it if Creation desired it. Creation can deprive us of most of it or all of it if that were Creation's wont. God can also reward us with varying degrees of a special quality of spiritual and emotional energy when God is pleased with how we live our lives. When we are in an intimate relationship with God, Creation rewards us with purer energies of the kind that enriches the emotional and spiritual qualities of our lives--the quintessential essence of earthbound happiness.
When we are firmly grounded in a belief in God and a life of satisfying the reasons for which we are created, we do not experience spiritual and emotional ambiguity and discord. We are free from these diseases of the mind and spirit because we understand God's need for human life; God's desire for us to share happiness; and God's need for human existence in perpetuity. And it for behavior that recognizes and acknowledge those reasons that we receive God's earthbound rewards while we exist in our mortal life-form.
Selah