Monday, December 3, 2007

Rational Reality?

I read this passage from Blue Like Jazz, dealing with worship, last night and it spoke to me in an enormous way. It reads:

"It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality, that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable."

I am a very realistic person. Logic is a key to my life. If something doesn't make sense I attempt to make it. I like the fact that God doesn't function on a level the same as mine. If he did, he wouldn't be God. My logic and strains to put this crazy world into a working system is pointless compared to what God can comprehend and achieve. So often I try to put God in a box so that I can understand him, or as Don Miller puts it, "we attempt to chart God, because we want to be able to predict Him, to dissect Him, to carry Him around in our dog and pony show." I am cool with God as long as he fits my standards. God is awesome as long as he doesn't interfere with what I think is right. It would be preposterous to think that God knows what's best, and I am the stupid one. If for just one second I could take my selfish eyes off of what I want and focus completely on God, he would show me so much. Thank God for his saving Grace.

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