Will the Real God Please Stand Up?
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When you think about growing up as a kid, we can have some very "creative" ideas of who God is. Think about it. Kids are concrete thinkers. God...well He is not very concrete, is He?
Unfortunately we can carry some pretty distorted ideas about God into adulthood. As Juanita and Dale Ryan wrote in Recovery from Distorted Images of God, "Often our images of God influence us more powerfully than does our...theological statements about God because images are rooted in powerful emotional experiences."
A.W. Tozer wrote an amazing statement about God and us,
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us... We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God... That our idea of God correspond as nearly as possible to the true being of God is of immense importance... The idolatrous heart...substitutes for the tre God one made after its own likeness... The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are not true about Him... The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true."
"...Our real idea of God may lie buried under the rubbish of conventional religious notions and may require an intelligent and vigorous search before it is finally unearthed and exposed for what it is. Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God."
During our iGOD series, we were unpacking what God reveals about Himself. It's the beginning of learning who is the true God is.
What has to change in your view of God? How have you created your own image of God (usually in your mind's eye)? How are you going about the "vigorous search" for the real God?
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