Monday, January 19, 2009

Our own personalized god

Too many times we as Christians have created our own god to follow. In our studies of the Bible, God's Word, we are able to see a glimpse of who God is. We come to a better understanding of who God really is. It seems that as we do this, we formulate in our minds this image of who God is, what He does, how He acts, and begin in our finite minds (usually based on our own physical experience) to reason out the rest.

The Bible does teach us definites. We do know some of who God is. But we take things in our human reasoning and create a god that fits what we think we know, and then try to force everyone else to believe what we "know" to be true. We create god, and then worship and follow him.

We have but a glimpse of who God is. On this earth, we will never fully understand what He is. He was before us, is and will always be. We can't even grasp this in our minds, and yet we think we have God all figured out.

If you have God all figured out, you might want to check and see which one you are following, because most likely it is one of your own imagination! Read the Bible and stick to that, not man's reasoning!