Movement (Sovereignty I)

Maybe this is the wrong way to go about landing on a belief about God, but I was thinking about how I want God to be. And I was thinking about what I would want in a dad. I think a good dad has to be flexible. There is not a prescribed set of behaviors that "works" every time when dealing with your children, or anyone for that matter. You have to be willing to experiment and change what you do in any given situation. It's hard work, but it's real.

People like to go off about how they think God works - you know like "God is doing this and that in my life," and I don't know about you, but to me it makes it seem like they understand how God works every time. I just think it's hard to know what God is doing sometimes. Sometimes God is present. Sometimes he is not. Sometimes he is making things happen. Sometimes he is sitting back and waiting. Sometimes he is speaking very directly. Sometimes he is letting us figure stuff out on our own.

That's because God is personal. He's the best example of what a person should be like, so wouldn't it make sense that he would be flexible and move? If there is a prescribed set of behaviors to which he must adhere, he is no longer a personal being and we no longer have to trust him - we already know what he is going to do.

(More on sovereignty coming in the next few posts.)