Evening: Psalm 9, 15; Mark 14:53-65
They
asked Jesus if he was the Messiah. When he replied, “I am”, they were
scandalized – he was not the Messiah they had imagined. Similarly, when
we “lose faith”, maybe it’s that we no longer believe in the God we had imagined. “Loss of faith” may be a crucial step on the journey of
faith. It may be that letting go of mistaken ideas about God opens us
up to a larger faith, much different than before, but truer than we
could ever have imagined.
As I contemplate what might be the source of "the God we had imagined", I perceive that it might in large part be informed by "the God I was told about". This seems to invite two further observations.
ReplyDelete1) It is important how we represent God individually and collectively, and
2) Experiencing God (whatever that means) is worth pursuing.