What Do You Do?
February 23, 2009 · Print This Article
The other night I was making sure to finish up reading this weeks chapter of “Jesus Wants to Save Christians†from Rob Bell for my Homegroup. As I was reading through this chapter, entitled Genital-Free Africans(go ahead and chuckle… no one will judge you), a certain section, a set of questions, really stuck out to me and made me look inward…
What do you do when your religion isn’t big enough for God?
What do you do when your rules and codes and laws simply aren’t enough anymore?
What do you do when your system falls apart because the new thing that God is doing is better, beyond, superior, more compelling?
Wow… so, what do you do? What do I do?
This my sound a little funny… but I feel i need to allow God freedom to move outside my boxes. Now i know how that sounds… God doesn’t really need me to “allow†Him to do anything… but that’s how it makes sense to me to best wrap my mind around it. Remembering that God is in the process of redeeming me… redeeming us… ALL OF US! And in that process He can use any of us at any time to fulfill His purpose… whatever we’ve been through. We see that all over scripture. God uses liars, drunks, the old, the young, unattractive, abused, the broke, murderers, prostitutes… the list goes on and on.
I am finding my self, more and more, learning that the God i love…
the God i don’t understand…
the God i am trying to serve one step at a time…
is a God without limits…
that i make the boxes…
and He is in the “business†of continually breaking them down, to show me that He is more than able.
It seems that part of what leads us to create "boxes" is defining what we believe, and definitions can lead to limits. While we all should know what we believe and why, we can't just leave it at that. God goes beyond known beliefs that are inluenced by culture, experience, our own capabilities, and a myriad of other factors. He is, as the song says, "indescribable, uncontainable" and as limited beings we can't really wrap our heads around that concept. It seems all we can do is exactly what Jason said, and that is serve one step at a time. God gives us our bread daily so that we will rely on him without too much foresight, but there are many steps taken during that day. We never know if that next step will take us where we thought we were going or where God wants us to be.