WRESTLING WITH ANGELS
Theology in Aisle 7
Trying to organize a God who transcends.
Carolyn Arends | posted 9/22/2008 10:26AM
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Eventually the missionary asks, "Are you sure we are going the right way? Isn't there a path somewhere?" The villager smiles. "Friend, I am the path."
"I am the way, the truth, and the life," Jesus tells us (John 14:6); "I AM," declares Yahweh (Ex. 3:14). My ideas about God are not the path. My church tradition, helpful as it is in pointing to him, is not the path. I plan to spend the rest of my life learning the best terminology we have for our understanding of what God has done and is doing, but the terms are not the path. Only God is. Only he can lead me through the jungle that is my life and into the boundless adventure of life with him.
Praise God, there is not a thing in Aisle 7—or in the universe—that can contain him.
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Arend's previous columns include:
The Grace of Wrath | Is there any story about God that isn't a love story? (May 12, 2008)
Carbonated Holiness | Laughter is serious business. (April 1, 2008)
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