Mmmmm...looks good, huh? Make no mistake, I love beer. Just about any kind of beer is fine by me. Though the can says to the left says "beer", even I might think twice about grabbing a cool one of these bad boys! Notice you don't see this stuff on the shelves anymore. The generic craze has been replaced by the store brand. Now at least you sort of know what you're going to get! I wonder, will there come a day when the real God will replace the generic one our culture so readily embraces? This generic god is a god who is everywhere. This is a god that fits our mold, our box, our black and white can that is simply marked "love". Fact is, if our focus is on some generic god who is everywhere, he's is nowhere. We're bound to ask "Where's my everywhere god when..." fill in the blank with any tragic event in our lives and relationships. If we want a god that generically loves all, then it stands to reason that he loves none. If our god says "I love you...I love everyone." it's so generic that we're left asking, "what about ME? Do you really love ME?" We have an EVERYWHERE God and a LOVING God, but He is far from a generic god! Isaiah 55:6-9 - Seek THE Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near." This is no generic god - this is a God who is may be found - who's nearness is an expression of His love. Where we really grab hold of God is in the physical nearness, His Son given to us in the flesh. The real Jesus who really lived and really died so that we could really have life is the real God - no generic here! He's specific! The way! The truth! The life! FOR YOU. And for me, and for all those who call upon and confess the name of the one true God -Father, Son and Holy Spirit! Amen!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Generic God?
Mmmmm...looks good, huh? Make no mistake, I love beer. Just about any kind of beer is fine by me. Though the can says to the left says "beer", even I might think twice about grabbing a cool one of these bad boys! Notice you don't see this stuff on the shelves anymore. The generic craze has been replaced by the store brand. Now at least you sort of know what you're going to get! I wonder, will there come a day when the real God will replace the generic one our culture so readily embraces? This generic god is a god who is everywhere. This is a god that fits our mold, our box, our black and white can that is simply marked "love". Fact is, if our focus is on some generic god who is everywhere, he's is nowhere. We're bound to ask "Where's my everywhere god when..." fill in the blank with any tragic event in our lives and relationships. If we want a god that generically loves all, then it stands to reason that he loves none. If our god says "I love you...I love everyone." it's so generic that we're left asking, "what about ME? Do you really love ME?" We have an EVERYWHERE God and a LOVING God, but He is far from a generic god! Isaiah 55:6-9 - Seek THE Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near." This is no generic god - this is a God who is may be found - who's nearness is an expression of His love. Where we really grab hold of God is in the physical nearness, His Son given to us in the flesh. The real Jesus who really lived and really died so that we could really have life is the real God - no generic here! He's specific! The way! The truth! The life! FOR YOU. And for me, and for all those who call upon and confess the name of the one true God -Father, Son and Holy Spirit! Amen!
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