Our Superficial Understanding of God

The world has a problem. We no longer share a common understanding of the Christian God. We kneel together to worship at the same liturgies. But, each of us worships a different God. THERE IS NO UNIFORMITY IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD. Who is to blame? Our clerics have stopped delivering the package into which Jesus deposited a high fidelity understanding of God. The package was not a package of words. It was a demonstration of divinity that took place in the backside of the desert (Exodus 3:1-3) in the boondocks of space and time. In the demonstration, Jesus gave us his answer to the evil that we did to him. From his scabbard of prodigious love, Jesus drew the sharp sword of sweet forgiveness to slay the monster of the Crucifixion. Forgiveness killed the monster dead (Jeremiah 31:31-34) (Luke 23:34 ) (Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35 (Luke 7:47) (Matthew 5:45).

Our job is to deliver the package that contains the demonstration of the prodigious love of God from the point and place of its obscure origin in the backside of the desert (Exodus 3:1-3), across time and space, to the children of Adam and Eve here and now.

Delivery, however, is no longer getting done. Hence, our understanding of God has become superficial. A superficial understanding of God does not energize our pursuit of him. We are not curious about a superficial God - a mere presence. A superficial understanding of God does not excite us to, like Moses, turn aside (Exodus 3:1-3). We have no curiosity in a superficial God - a God that hides himself in an enigmatic black box ((Isaiah 45:15)).