Scary Thought

Since I have been struggling to put up another post, this will be short: ) I found this to be so powerful/convicting when I was reading The Screwtape Letters last night. . . C.S. Lewis supposes that we are weakened to the devil when our focus is diverted from thinking about God to our perceptions of God. I know all too well how we can look at God through the lens of humanity, which in turn makes him a very small God, subject to the same limitations that we suffer. A small God with failings will let us down. If we make him into our image, how then can he overpower the evil that we encounter in life. God becomes weak which allows the devil to gradually chip away at our trust, peace, and joy. Without trust, we take our lives into our own hands, desparate for some kind of control since God can no longer step in on our behalf. Of course the snowball effect continues and we find ourselves lost without any sense of truth. And it all started with trying to reconcile within our minds who we think God to be (when, by the way, he has always been the same regardless of what we tell him he is). I have to tell you that this was a little to much for my brain at 11:00pm. Maybe it is time to go back and see who he says he is, not my limited version!