The God of my Own Design

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I believe there are scriptural absolutes. I’m also quite certain that my perspective on those absolutes is skewed at times.

Perhaps this is because I live in a politically correct world in which truth is strained through the sieve of human understanding until all of the uncomfortable chunks are removed and what’s left is more palatable.

And although I seek to love the Lord with all my heart, mind, and soul, often spiritual epiphanies disrupt my tendency to reframe His words in ways that I can swallow.

Not too hot. Not too cold…lukewarm, thank you.

Lately I’ve been wondering whether we humans’ tendency to re-write history also influences our faith. Like the old “Way We Were” song in the movie with Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford, “What’s too painful to remember we simply choose to forget.”

So we linger in the scriptures that speak of love and grace and avoid those that call us to accountability. God becomes a sugar daddy instead of loving Father who, at times, corrects His children.

We sculpture the face of God over the visage of our humanity. And in doing so, believe we are acquitted.

I don’t know about you, but my challenge is to embrace humility—to admit that I have the potential to become self-deceived, errant, and off-course. When I embrace humility, I truly believe the words of Christ:

“16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you… He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. John 14:16-7, 26b

Just because I believe something is so, does not make it so. I often wonder whether I’ve created my own version of God. One that supports my rationalizations. Do you ever wonder about this?

Scripture quotations taken from the NASB.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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