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This is another reflection inspired by my reading of Lectio. Currently it’s focused on helping us re-wild our imagination of God.
There’s a divine paradox in that God became human in Christ so that we could be free to see and know how to follow God’s Kingdom way of living, and yet God also exists completely ‘other’ to us. Recorded biblical encounters with the Creator are fantastical descriptions. Writers were not fully able to describe nor comprehend what they saw. However, what occurs with us humans here on earth is a containment of the Divine into religion and into a set of beliefs and systematic doctrines. Then, in our sincere attempts to promote and advance our belief in the Divine, we settle in on fixed ways to explain Him. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. We are human after all, and we need ‘handles’ to comprehend something that is beyond us.
However, when we do not acknowledge and admit that there is a mystery to the majesty of the Creator, we have bound ourselves and others to a set of beliefs. A bounded set. A religion. An explainable Creator. How utterly inconsistent.
Look at the news. Listen to the conversations. How does the world perceive God when they look through the lens of Christians? Perhaps you can’t influence the negative perception of Christianity that is in the broader cultural narrative, but you can in your personal and local circles.
Re-wild your imagination of the Creator. Live as a follower who has eyes wide open to wonder and mystery.
You don’t have to have an answer to everything.
