Religion is a complex hodge-podge of both blessings and cursings. Just as in life itself, the religious zone is a task few truly take on because the truth of it enlivens; but the enemy gimmicks of it blur. It seems a reason to believe God is to note the grand schemes out there in the very name of religion which are nothing more than mockery and scandal.
There is, however, true and pure religion intended by God for a common people. Jesus is the name above all names which is the door that all may go in and out and find pasture.
We believers are every bit as likely to gum up the works as the un-ones. The basic struggle for letting the world in on God is that the church has made a disastrous mistake. We have failed to know Him through Jesus and through the Spirit. Simultaneously, we have tried to make God out to be manageable.
He isn't.
That's what makes Him God.
God is not to bend around our whims. We are to be the pliable ones....John. 3:8.
Christianity is a wild bronc never to be tamed. The church has done it's dead-level best to try tame it. It hasn't been; but many believe such has been accomplished to the extent God's hands have been tied up in business meetings and said notes of the "old" and then the "new" minutes.
The thrill....the sheer thrill....of life in the church is to dare to cut our apron strings from controlling voices and peek into the gulping region of God's present-day activity.
Hold on! We are to know Him. Yet, when we repent of trying to manage Him, we will find ourselves in one hoopla of a faith-rodeo!
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