How is your image of God? Has it stayed the same since you became a Christ follower? Have you framed Him with worldly characteristics? How about trust? Do you trust God completely? Enough to open your hands completely in every single situation?
I became a Christian at the age of eleven. I had no idea what image I had of God, I just knew I needed Him.
My story is riddled with shame which prevented me from seeing myself as God did (does). I needed a loving parent that was a safe place, He became that. (Note to this who knew my parents: the parents you knew, were not always the same behind closed doors.)
As my faith grew, my image of God shifted a little. I knew He was faithful from scripture. His attributes were studied through out my life; however, the little girl in me still clung to the image of a loving parent.
What happens when your logic doesn’t line up with His will? Does your image of God change?
I have struggled with a situation recently, thinking that He was answering prayers, the timing was perfect. But God did not see it MY way. It was what was “best” in my eyes, How could He not see it?
Limits or restrictions are for us, not Him. It has taken me a month or so to process my disappointment. It has taken an outsider’s eyes to show me my growth and that my image of God from yesterday might need to change.
All things are possible with God, Trust and Obey, Good things will happen for those who wait on the Lord…are all good things to remember.
Isaiah 55:8-9: "My plans aren't your plans, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my plans than your plans.”
Maybe the timing of His plans allows me to change my view of a few things, people, Him. Maybe His “not yet” is allowing me to actually trust Him in a way I never have. Maybe His plans include healing, Maybe my plans would have fallen flat and the disappointment and destruction that followed just might have cost me more than the waiting is right now.
So how old is your image of God? Is it one from childhood? Teenage years? What if it was time to update that image, could you?
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