Tuesday, March 9, 2010

OUR GOD IS TOO SMALL

JB Phillips, who was a famous 20th century New Testament scholar and translator, once declared "Our God is too small." He was referring the Modernist tendency to reduce God to a tame deity who posed no threat to human autonomy, a god stripped of His supernatural sovereignty. After all, said the rationalists of the so-called Enlightenment, "The God of the Bible is little more a myth than a reality." Intelligent humanity only needed such a god as an emotional crush for its weakened and least educated members.

But have you ever thought what that really means? What use is a god who is little better than a highly skilled human? What transforming power is available from a being that can be outwitted or replaced by the collective think thank of the best human minds. What benefit is the eternal love of a god who is little more than a backwater prophet with a good PR agent?

From the heart of Hebrew ancient understanding through the proclamation of reality of the Christian apostles, the God who is the Great I Am is the only God worth following and trusting.

All else has no purpose nor no power to change our eternal destiny.
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