Let God be God

Some people appreciate and want God when He’s a still, small voice, and a gentle blowing (1Ki 19:12).

However,  they might stall out at a God whose voice is like many waters and His glory thunders (Ez 43:2, Rev 1:15, Psa 29:3).

Some people almost exclusively recognize God as judge, holy, and dreadful (2 Cor 5:10, Ex 3:5, Josh 5:15, Heb 10:31, Isa 8:13).

Conversely, some folks almost exclusively see God as grace, mercy, love, goodness, prosperity (Psa 84:11, Titus 2:11, Psa 103:8, Psa 145:8, 1 Jn 4:8, Psa 34:8, Jer 29:11).

Brothers and sisters, God may reveal Himself to you in a certain way more often than other ways…but it doesn’t mean that He isn’t in the other ways. It also doesn’t mean He can’t or won’t reveal Himself to you or others with a different emphasis than the one you’re most accustomed to. Allow God to be God. Give Him permission to speak to you however He wants to. Give Him permission to Be God however He so chooses.

Don’t limit God.

Don’t dictate how He can move. God is bigger than you or I realize.

In the times of Christ, He was gentle and forgiving. He was kind. He was peace. He bestowed blessings, finances, healings, and miracles. The same Jesus pointedly preached repentance. He rebuked. He chastised. He flipped tables over. He made a whip, and used it. He was from a small town. At times He had no where to lay His head. On other days He stood and taught in the temple and he even stood before rulers at the palace. Some folks called him king. Others angrily said crucify him for his crime, for His error.

As an 18 year old I asked a Pastor of a nominal church what He believed about the Holy Spirit. He answered by talking of Holy Spirit in past tense. And he informed me the last days are biblically going to be about us witnessing the great falling away. He was right. Yet, I suggested the last days may be more like a coin. When he raised one eyebrow, I said a coin has two sides. One side is referred to as the tale, a negative connotation. The other side is known as the head, a positive landing. Same coin, two sides. And Joel 2, with the echo of Acts 2, speaks of a last days outpouring. We are more so in the last days than ever before. I believe we’re in the proverbial eleventh hour—our reward will equal those that were in this way before us. It’s late, but Jesus’ first miracle brought us the testament that the best wine is saved for the last. Yes, the darkness is encroaching and that will keep on spreading. Yes, there will be wars and rumors of wars. Yes, we might be in the falling away. Yes, an antichrist will be born, grow up, and gradually rise towards his seat of influence. Yes, a false prophet and many false, false, falsety falses will be here among us. Yes, tribulation is like water warming up and will soon boil over on us. But don’t miss Jesus just because you didn’t expect a good thing to come [from Nazareth]. Don’t miss the king just because he’s riding a donkey. Get in a metaphorical upper room, a waiting, tarrying posture until God is able to reveal Himself in a way you might not have expected. Get in a room, place, state of mind that’s at least similar to  isolation. Go so far away (in spirit) and keep going until the noise, the news, and all the outside views aren’t influencing you anymore. Jesus did this regularly. One time Jesus did it for 40 days straight. Sometimes Jesus was getting away and alone early in the morning. Sometimes Jesus was getting away and alone all through the night. Sometimes Jesus was getting away and alone in the Garden. Moses, John, and Jesus were sometimes getting alone, isolated, focused in a desert place, or the wilderness. Disciples of Christ spent 10 days of waiting. These times are the emptyings of ourselves and our own inclinations that actually create a landing strip for God to come in a different voice, different manifestation, different word than what we are used to. God is…different. That’s what holy is. It’s not normal, ordinary, common.

God came here, was born of a virgin, and they laid Him in a manger.

With all my heart I believe God is now wanting to blow our minds all over again. 

Let God be God.