This week: God as evolving. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. Some folks would say that God evolved from the angry God of the Hebrew Scriptures to the Gracious God of the Christian Scriptures. I don't buy. God is God. God as evolving represents the God who is consistently gracious and loving and faithful and utterly forgiving. Therefore, God inspires us to open our eyes and see that God and that God alone. As we long for a warring God or a vengeful God or a wrathful God or a finger-pointing God, God is working on our hearts and minds so that we will evolve into a people who are able to see and love and count on nothing less than the God we associate with the words Good News. Good News opens up the many ways God gets out of our boxes and helps us repent - or come along and follow in a new way. God as evolving is the God who invites us into change - repentance - new life. This is even the case when we each try to hold onto 'fundamentals' we insist on seeing in our way. Right then and there, God as evolving makes our foundations shake and we are given new things to see and encounter and bring us into a life we may have never dared imagine. O God of love and new life, you alone take us out beyond our vision and then, as we settle in there, you appear a bit different and you move us again. It is with a sense of amazement and awe that we come to praise you here and now. Amen. |
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