Limited View of GOD

I was discussing the various ways God presents Himself with a lady who was buying my book. She intended to read it and then explain it to her young son. Then it occurred to me why a person would have such a difficult time understanding the idea of God as an entity. People are made in the image and likeness of God (So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27) but because Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The forbidden fruit. People now prefer to see God as made in their image. Many people believe that God was made up to explain the unexplainable. The problem lies in the physical limitations of humans, which prevent them from comprehending the boundless nature of God.

The concept of knowing good and evil is much larger than it sounds. The way people learn starts with what we consider as relevant. This is broken down into a series of statements that we respond to and ask questions about. What this calls for is a system of belief based on yes-no answers or right and wrong. So, technically, all human knowledge can be defined as knowing right from wrong. The prevailing application of such a process is that all knowledge that I seek can only exist in relation to what I already believe. This means I am limited to information I am interested in or ideas from trusted sources. There is the possibility of learning through experience, but this information must also be processed through what I already know in order to be applied. 

When the question of God comes up, all I can relate Him to is what I know or am prepared to accept. Watching my Christian television channels, I often hear converts talk about how they sought out evidence of God or, more often, in a crisis, called upon Him in blind hope. These people were rewarded with enough evidence to change their minds, causing them to accept Him. Their need or desire caused them to ask a question that opened an avenue to awareness.

What is discouraging is when I hear a person trying to make God fit into what they are prepared to understand. They are effectively remaking God in their own image. The image they create then comes with all of the limitations that they have as well as their flaws. Binding Him to human limitations allows for the option to question everything He says. God’s intentions then become a reflection of what a person would do in His place. This is what so many people use to deny His very existence. Those who doubt the validity of the Bible use this ideology as well. 

I am not so pure that I do not sometimes wonder what God's intentions are when something does not go my way. A financial blow right when I find that my hours at work are two-thirds of what they once were. My son does not visit on Saturday, and he calls me later to tell me he is in the hospital. These things can really make me think twice. Especially as I am trying to build a ministry that I feel that God has compelled me to create.

Then I catch myself and remember that it is not my place to demand a smooth ride for my service. My life is a gift He gave me, and how I live it should reflect that. It is not my place to define Him but to worship Him.

My children are in their thirties, and they still have so much to learn. I do not know more than they in the things they pursue, but where life is concerned, they are still young. Just sitting here at my computer looking out the screen door at so much I do not know, I am reminded of how my mother must have felt dealing with my presumptions. What must it feel like for one so grand as the Lord to be limited in my mind to my understanding?