All too often, we place God in a box. We bring God on our side of a debate. God is a Democrat. God is a Republican. You've seen legitimate followers of Jesus yelling at each other from opposite sides of the fence throughout history. Whether this is for self preservation, out of shere ignorance, or both, I'm not sure. What I do know is that we are more often wrong about God than we are right (and I am pretty sure God is sick of His name being taken in vain for the sake of our personal debates).
In an email I wrote from Southeast Asia a year ago, I began with the words, "The more I travel, the bigger my God gets". Am I making a call for moral relativity? Certainly not! Am I saying that all religions lead to heaven? By no means. And to prove my point of boxing God in, the last two questions and their answers made many sigh with relief and others get angry. This blog is meant to reflect a story/journey/movement towards finding the image of God in all things, in all people (even Right Wing Nut Jobs and Flaming Liberals...just to name a few dichotemies we have created). The title reflects the nature of the written word in these pages, for the goal of my journey is to free God from my restraints and allow Him to show me how to live as a citizen of the Kingdom here and now.
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For sure, Dee...It makes me feel much more at ease that God is bigger than the molds I try and fit him in...especially now when it is so easy to fell in to the thinking that "God needs my help"...haha...he doesn't need me and doesn't exist because I believe in him...the reality is that I get to be a part of what he has been doing since before the story of Genesis took place...and that is frickin amazing!
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