I get into debates. Too often perhaps. They're good discussions, generally. But often there is the unstated fact that your god is sometimes different from mine, even if we call him the same name. From my perspective it often seems that the god other people are supposedly serving is a porcelain figurine that is merely pleasing to the beholders eye. My God is, unfortunately, not so compliant. In fact, I find him downright scary if I really think about it. Meaning of course that I don't think as much about him as I should! God must be bizarre to our perspective ... by definition he must be really incomprehensible. If not, well I suggest than he's not really worthy the title "God." The ancients conveniently gave their gods useful names like Zeus which differentiated one from another. Today we make Hollywood movies about those gods. The modern equivalent seems to be much harder to discern. The gods of today are rather like the Smiths of England, the Christensens of Denmark, or the Johanssons in Sweden. The name is the same, and found everywhere, but the people behind the name are very different. And so Christianity seems to be represented by churches where the people worship a range of gods under the common name of Jesus. So who is my God? What is his nature? Well, I sat down and simply wrote down about my God, and here's my list. With each I've included some of the conundrums and contemplations that come to mind. I'm writing from experience, and I'm not going to quote other people's opinions. This is what I've learned and experienced! Each of these characteristics are those of a person, not an object. Each deserves a book in and of themselves ... but one has to start somewhere.
Twenty three characteristics of God's nature seems a good number, so I'll stop there although I could go on and on. The point is, I serve a God worthy of the title God. He's big. That means God also includes things I'd rather not have to face up to, but if they were not part of God, he would not be God, and my relationship would be futile.
So how's your god doing?
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