Opus 2025-473: The Myth of the God Box

I have made the statement which I know is not original to me, that people often try to put God in a box.  We often find that we are making God in our image instead of seeking to know what it means that we are made in His.  That causes a lot of distress and distortion in our lives.

I have been enjoying reminding myself about how I need to take down the box that I have built around God.  Much of that involves removing the box that other people have put around God with their traditions and their personal opinions.  I had a new insight this morning.  It’s new to me.  It may not be new to you.  Like so much that comes to me in my Eureka moments you may have already known it, but you just didn’t tell me.

It suddenly hit me that what I was really doing, was tearing down the box that I had built around myself.  It started with the idea that God doesn’t need me to take a box down from around Him.  He’s quite capable of removing that box Himself.  He can penetrate it and speak to me.  His Holy Spirit is living within me and speaking to me through His written word.  God has no problem, breaking out and reaching out.  The problem we have is the barriers that we build to keep Him away.

Think of the type of boxes that we can build.  One might be all mirrors.  In this case, all the light that comes, our direction is reflected and never gets to us.  It can be a box painted black, and the surface by it’s very nature just absorbs everything that hits it.  It can be of the hardest metal, or the hardest head and just doesn’t pay attention to truth that does penetrate.  That sounds a lot like the parable of the soils.

So I think I am going to work on getting myself out of the box instead of worrying about God being confined.  It seems a logical choice.

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