Post 6

In class, we talked about the quote, “Not my idea of God, but God.” We all probably have our own unique idea about who God is. One time I was in a meeting and we all went around the room and defined in one word who God was to us personally. Out of about thirty people, the same word was probably only repeated once or twice. We all have experienced our own unique walk with the Lord, therefore each of us individually have experienced God in our own way. We have walked through different storms with Him, have celebrated different things with Him, and had different intimate times with Him. 

Ultimately, the same Jesus that I serve is the same Jesus that people all across the world serve and love. With everyone having their own "idea" of God can be problematic because we may not seek to find who God is for ourselves because so many people have already "defined" God for us or we have lose sight of who God truly is because of people's "false" ideas influencing our own. I do not want God to be an idea, but absolute truth. It can almost be comparable to gossip about a person, even if it is someone talking good about someone. Your friends may tell you all about how "Sally" is and you build up these certain idea and image about who she is,. Wouldn't you want to get to know her for yourself so that you can know that your beliefs about her are based on a relationship and true facts? 

If we honestly asked ourselves where we attained our own idea of what God really is, would it be merely an idea or who God truly is? Do we imagine God as what we hope for Him to be? Or want Him to be? We cannot allow ourselves to serve and love our own mental image of God because then we will be like C.S. Lewis in a Grief Observed, simply loving our own thought of who someone is. Our feelings for God could become mere deceiving illusions. If we were to truly let God reveal to us who He is rather than letting others or ourselves define His being, it would radically strengthen our love for God and our faith in Him. 

I really liked Professor Corrigan’s quote, “The integrity of your faith is not measured by how certain your answers are but more by how authentic your questions are.” We tend to believe that the people who can speak eloquently and seem to have the most wisdom about God have the strongest faith. However, i find that people who are continually questioning are those who are desperate for more of God and those who have learned that knowledge about God is never-ending. In my opinion, a person who is not scared to ask a lot of questions is always most successful in all areas. Pride is not faith.