This week: God as beyond words. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . God as beyond words makes this exercise in devotions moot. For anything that is written is never the end of all that is to be said. It is merely like a dot on an 'i' in the middle of an entire novel. God as beyond words takes us farther out from our world than we can ever imagine. For once we have written a word about this God - it is not enough and it cannot reveal the entirety of our God. God as beyond words is an invitation to never stop reach out for more of this God - for we never have it all in hand. I am always amazed - maybe disturbed - by religious folks who try to say they have defined God - or defined what God is like - or defined how God thinks or acts. God as beyond words turns such confidence into a comedy routine. God as beyond words make the fundamentalist and the literalist into liars who do not even realize that the god they have capture and hold for themselves and a few select others is not the God who raised Jesus from the dead so as to take us beyond all that we have tried to control. O God of love and new life, help us to laugh at our attempts to limit you to the vocabulary and images we are able to speak. For there - beyond our great ideas and notions and fine learning comes the eternal unfolding of your being. Amen. |
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