Elevate Jan 20

a prophet came to visit this week.

I was reminded again about a lesson I learned about five or six years ago. This wasn't necessarily a teaching from the prophet, it was more of a encouragement from our pastor as he introduced the prophet.

I'll start with my original lesson.
Five or six years ago I was walking down the streets of savanna with a very good friend of mine. and discussed how in the interest of being right many people have boiled salvation down to its lowest common denominator. They also reduced their descriptions of God in who he was/is too simple terms that allowed everyone to agree.and in searching for terms to keep God's simple and uncomplicated we had to use definitions that fit our culture and enforce them on any culture that might use different terms.
We basically put God in a box so that he could be carried around with us shown to anyone who might be interested.

The interesting thing about putting God in a box is that He fills that box. And that is the size of the God you get. You're God fits in a box and is described by words that you define and keep simple. Anyone who has a different box for God is either ignored, or argued with and neither option brings about any sort of unity.

As we concluded our little conversation I determined to my mind to take God out of my box, and allow Him to get as big as He'd like to be/as big as He really is. This meant I could not contain hidden in my mind, and I could not define him with my vocabulary. It meant that I would have to spend my life getting to know Him, and actually admit to being wrong regarding aspects of Him and His character, and if not wrong and then admit to being immature in my views ,because God gets more complicated the bigger he gets.

I was encouraged to do the same thing this week by our pastor regarding a prophet.if I limit what a prophet can do, if I narrow my view to what I'm comfortable with a prophet could be used for ,that is all I will receive from that Ministry. The Bible says "we should receive a prophet as a prophet and we will receive a prophets reward"
I believe we were able to do that this week, and I know we received a wonderful reward. The reward of a prophet is what the prophet brings. And this one brought much encouragement, teaching, and an awareness of God's presence that we could feel.

Hope to see you next week...at Elevate