Throughout the past several months I have been put into situations where many people start discussing "Who God is," or "Who God Isn't." These converstaions are often unproductive in anyway shape or form and rarely give God credit. We come up with the "rational" arguments and try and place God into our own understanding. Rarely do we ever stop and wonder if maybe he is on a greater level of understanding than our own. Think for a second about Justice. We as Americans have this very John Wayne/Eye for and eye view on Justice. We believe that everyone will get their just desserts, as one might say.
When Casey Anthony was equitted of the charges of murder, people lost their minds. One tweet I found particularly disturbing was "Rot in Hell." An attitude like this is just ignorant of the Bibles teachings. Romans 14: 10 says "Why do you pass judgement on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgement seat of God;" Our ideas on justice do not honor the Father, they only bring to light our need for control and satisfaction. People say that "I dont want to believe in God who would do this, or wouldn't do that" but the funny thing about it is that its not up to US to decide what God would or wouldn't do. That kind of defeats the purpose of US serving HIM. Thus we begin to rationaly try and explain our creator. Once we begin to make God fit our personal rationality, we put his sumpremacy beneath our narrow mindedness.
God is outside any box we could ever hope to create. We arrogantly argue the finer points of our own personal theology when Romans 14 verse one says "As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions." We argue God to prove our own points, for selfish personal gain. We argue God like an ideology or philisophical way of thought and often lose sight of the fact that God is LIFE, not just a way of living it. The Bible is not a set of rules or ideas that are to be contested; it is the word of God handed to EACH one of us that we may have a personal relationship with Christ. Colossians 2:8 sums up what I feel God has put on my heart. "See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ."
Dont let human rationality take your faith from God. He fits no rationality. God created everything, which means he created our ideas of thought. He is outside our understanding becasue he created understanding itself. To define God is to limit God to our understanding and rules. Sorry but we play by HIS rules.
