"If the essence of our spirituality lies in a relationship with God, I suppose we should ask ourselves who God is. I would like to believe God is completely good, completely kind and forgiving, and it is we who aren't all that good and have no idea what goodness is in the first place. I realize that sounds like humanity-bashing, and I don't mean to bash humanity, but when I watch the news it makes me wish deep down for another time and place that has a king who is good, and a people who love and care about one another and are easy to trust....And Jesus helps me believe that such a time and place might exist. I realize a lot of people don't like Jesus, or just ignore Him or have no use for Him, but I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Ghandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all." ( Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller, pg. 18,19.)I wonder, do I know You, the real You? Or do I box You safely into the boundaries I have created in my imagination? I want to know the real Jesus. I want You.
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Amen! to know the Real Jesus...like Paul, I aim to "know nothing save Christ"
amen! great post, I hope that i can get out of bounds with Jesus!!
Yes. Yes to the scriptures that reveals Himself to us.
Amen, I have wondered this too, I recently heard a tape by Paul Washer and it really made me take a look at who Jesus really is, I don't want to have this idea in my head of who I think He is, but I want to know the real one and only Jesus, like the disciples did. I have been doing lots of soul searching and spending lots of time in the Word lately. He said He is not far from the seeker. Take care and God Bless, great post!
Making God in our image is a common problem.
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