I was reading a new friend’s thoughts to his children. What a wonderful idea! Kind of like take on the Old Testament book of Proverbs. I wish I had the consistency and discipline to do that for my children. Plus, I am not sure I have much good advice for my kids other than cling to God.
Anyway, he is a deep thinker and wrote an interesting post https://joeylipp.com/dearsons/would-your-god-outlast-your-brain. It started me thinking about how we make gods out of our own needs. Here are my comments:
Interesting thought. I was thinking about your idea about religion and god. My understanding from my experience in the world and life is that people seek comfort and familiarity. It becomes our god and idolatry. The reason I think God in the Bible and Jesus make sense to me is because we are called by God to live in the discomfort of change in order to find comfort and life in Him. Once we give up our idols of trying to control life and change, we can truly find the blessing of life, which is sacrificial love for the sake of others.
The process is a process of finding God-given value in self and then beginning to give of your value/gifts to others finally realizing you can tap into an endless source (the Spirit) that we can draw from, which lets us become fearless sacrificial lovers of God,people, and life — fully dependent on God, the source of life and love. We live counter to that not thinking about the tremendous amount of change we experience. Every breadth is filled with different (and often shared) molecules. Every glance with our eyes can never ever be exactly the same as it was the moment before. Think about nature changing — waves rivers etc.
Why then, do people with brains, logic, etc. begin to confuse God’s gift of an always changing, always new life for a slow painful death of religion and yearn for the stagnation of stability. From Genesis to Revelation, God calls His people to embrace Him in the change and we choose to embrace other. Joey, thanks for the thought and inspiration.
