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The concept of god can be just as useful as believing in god. It may in fact be possible to understand the concept of god in such a way so that it is equivalent to believing in god. Here goes:

Everything that emerges in consciousness emerges IN consciousness. You can only think the thinkable, by definition.

"god" can be defined as that which is "beyond" everything, as such "god" cannot be contained. That is, "god" cannot be IN(and therefore contained) consciousness.

A child has a much smaller consciousness than an adult. As we grow our consciousness can grow to huge sizes. E.g. imagine yourself playing piano like a concert pianist. We can't. Most of us can't imagine doing anything that hard.

Mastery in a field creates a feeling of respect even in another field because it signals the same depth of consciousness even though the contents may wildly differ. E.g. a general could make a good CEO.

Yet no matter how big they get, they're always smaller than infinity. Just like no matter how large of a thing you paint, it will always be just the foreground on an infinite background. An island of white in an endless black.

Consciousness is infinite because any thought must occur INSIDE consciousness. Whatever thought appears, must then be smaller than consciousness. However, consciousness will only ever be this bubble of light in the darkness.