Here are a couple of questions to start your week off in the right direction: “Is your religion big enough for God? Does your belief system allow for mystery and faith?”
The history of the church is such that mankind has worked very hard to define beliefs and answer life questions. This is not a bad thing at all. God gave us brains to process our life experiences and then try and understand them. But what has happened over time (hundreds of years) is that we have developed a belief system that seems to have an answer for everything. Man has worked for years to put God in a box.
Is it possible that over time, some very important aspects of our understanding of God and our relation to God have been left out or even worse, maybe things that have no real relevance to our relationship with God have been added to the belief system?
I believe we do a real disservice to ourselves and others when we strive to downplay or even deny the mystery of God. We can never truly understand God. At the end of the day we can only hope that we partially understand the parts of God that God has chosen to reveal to us.
For me, my religion is not big enough for God and knowing that, I think, puts things in perspective. God is full of mystery and it is that mystery that draws me continuously toward God – seeking a relationship with my creator whom I can never fully understand on this side of death.
What about you? Do you embrace the mystery? Or does it make you uncomfortable?
Clay in the Hands 
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