"Cut-and-Paste Christianity"

"In the beginning God mase man in His own image. Man has been making God in his image since." Mark Batterson. So often we stry to do everything our way. We take what God has given us and we change it. We "cut-out" the parts we don't like, the parts we can't explain, and the parts that make us "feel bad" about our sin. I don't even think we realize how amazing it is, by our standards, that God still loves us. If someone treated us like we treat God we wouldn't love them, we wouldn't want to have a relationship with them, we would do whatever it took to avoid them and hurt them. But that isn't what God called us to do. We can't fit God into a box of our own making whether its a physical one that we can touch or one that we've made up in our mind. There is just too much about Him that is beyond comprehension. We can't choose how we want Him to be because He already is! We can't say we follow God then treat Him and those we proclaim to love like dirt. We have to take God as He is and allow Him to change us so that we understand why He is the way He is. Anytime we try otherwise we're making assumptions that put us into a spiritual cage. Those assumptions trap us and keep us locked away. They hold us back. We are caging ourselves with our own logic. The more we try to rationalize the Bible the less we have to live with and for. Less love... less joy... less peace... less contentment... less happiness... less life... By rationalizing and trying to explain it away we take away everything that matters. Foremost our relationship with God but also people, blessings, things we take for granted... we might as well have as explained it away too.