Quotes - View of God
“To avoid mystery is to avoid the only God worthy of worship, honor, and praise.”
“It is time to reject the dignified, businesslike Rotary Club deity we chatter about on Sunday morning and search for a God worthy of awe, silent reverence, total commitment, and wholehearted trust.”
“God made us in his image… and we have returned the favor.” Jacques Ellul.
These were gathered at a meeting with some CRM colleagues last year. I don’t know who was quoting whom, but I thought they were worthy of posting since they continue to prompt me.
I’m reminded of how effectively I create categories into which I parse God. While a natural and necessary component to learning about him and his heart for us, more often than not, it is my categories that prevent God from being God in my life.
Have I domesticated God by trapping him in my categories? More than likely. Am I limiting or controlling him to work in ways that I expect and can explain? How does this effect my ability to be surprised by him?
Sometimes I’m inconvenienced by God working outside of my categories. Just who does he think he is anyway?