I can’t shake these words, they are a game changer:
If your God is the punisher in the sky
If he is a distant God
If he is expecting you to perform to some great extent…
If he is “fill in the blank” anything other than a good father wanting to have a relationship with you…
There is no other path than tearing down that idol, that image of a false God.
(I think Alan Smith said this)
I have been so aggressive pursuing knowledge of “Him” for the last two years. Really this is not bragging, I am just that way, I run hard at something that I decide to do. Old friends tell me this all the time….. we have a large church and I talk to people, I ask them things in various ways, things that tell me how they spend their time. I am just bizarre in how much I try to absorb…. After all of that effort the following is a little difficult to absorb and confusing in some ways.
I have acquired over 1000 books on the bible and Christianity in 2 years, and I have tried to read as many as I could…