The Bullet of Knowing God: Finding the Reality (Part 2)
Like it or not, all of us try to act out our view of God, or perfection, or greatness, or our ideal. They are one in the same. First, we play God by assuming we can live independently of others … and even of God Himself. Second, we play God in the casual way we judge, berate, condemn and reject our fellow man. Although we deny it verbally, we act toward others as though we possessed perfect knowledge about their situations. Thirdly, we play God when we put ourselves at the center of our universe. We view ourselves as the whole and not simply a part of reality. Lastly, and most seriously, we play God when we exalt ourselves in rejecting the truth and authority of the True God.
Where does one get clued in on what God is really like? How does a person find his or her place in this vast scheme of things and “plug in”? The answer is in Jesus Christ, the only perfect Man who ever lived. His life defies imitation. It can be explained only in terms of God. He blows humanities’ ideas of God to pieces! He is not vengeful, stuffy, dull, uncompassionate or worried. The God Jesus revealed is forgiving, free, exciting, loving and has everything under control. People experience hell in their lives because they’re attempting to follow “a God” of their own making who is false and inadequate. People’s insane experiment to try and be human without the God who created us is as foolish as trying to live a week without breathing.
Human pride continually projects us into the roll of God – a part we can never play. We don’t possess the power or the script. Only God can be God. Come, let us be human … God’s kind of humanity … is the only realistic choice open to all of us. “Except you become as little children, you cannot see the Kingdom of God” (Matthew 18:3).
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