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No God Would…

We ought to have far more fear of God than we do of someone’s concept of God.

Recently, I just starting noticing (it’s been happening since…let’s see…creation?!) the number of concepts people communicate about God. On a weather site, the following comment was published:

If any GOD had any pull on weather [conditions] , We’d have beautiful days forever.

How common is this kind of statement? I’m reminded of Job’s friends who all thought they knew God. I’m reminded of the false prophets from Jeremiah’s day who were ousted by God in His revelation to Jeremiah. I’m reminded of…well…pretty much everyone, including myself, who has ever looked to an “image” of God, either molten or mental, as J. I. Packer says, thereby reducing His glory.

“I also withheld rain from you
when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
but withheld it from another.
One field had rain;
another had none and dried up.
People staggered from town to town for water
but did not get enough to drink,
yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord. – Amos 4

Let us take care that we do not reduce God with statements like “No God would…” or “God wouldn’t” or [ad infinitum].

We ought to have far more fear of God than we do of someone’s concept of God.

Feeding on the Bread of Life

God is born in Bethlehem (the house of bread), wrapped in swaddling clothes (He is fully human), and has been laid in a food trough, a sign that He has been offered up for consumption — and not just any consumption, and not even implying reverent consumption, but animalistic…beastly consumption.
 –svidgen, stackexchange comment
Although taken by some (including the above author) to be a literal “Eucharist,” John 6 clearly links this bread as a metaphor to God’s words (v. 58 linked to 63), which is consistent with Mt. 4:4 and Lk. 4:4 that “man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (it’s not “this do to literally eat me,” but rather “this do in remembrance of me”). John clearly presents his entire book by showing us that Jesus is the Word. Therefore, my very real reliance for life ought not to come from food only, but from truth. This is not something to be taken as a religious rite, but rather a mental and heart “object” to which we must cling and “feed” regularly–daily, hourly, or more! Do we really believe…

You Are My God

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I will respond to the skies,
and they will respond to the earth;
and the earth will respond to the grain,
the new wine and the olive oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
I will plant her for myself in the land;
I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’;
and they will say, ‘You are my God.’
–Hosea