an imagined god

Who is God to you? Is he real or is he imagined?

Religion created an imagined god inside me. I didn’t need to personalize him as long as I did the things I was supposed to do as a good Christian. It was about “doing” in order to maintain acceptance in the group. This kept me in a shallow, safe place in relation to others. There was little or no risk involved. It wasn’t until I needed Him that I realized what I had done and that my image of Him was not sufficient to get me out of my mess.

The image I had of God was not real. Dictionary.com has as it’s 12th definition for the word image… “an idol or representation of a deity”. Now that sounds to me like the breaking of one of the 10 Commandments, doesn’t it? Idols are unacceptable, right? Get rid of the idol, right? God wiped the slate clean and started over. Actually He restarted me like a computer needs restarting to clean up corrupted files.

This was His doing. The journey I’m on is the one He's designed. None of us would have gotten to where we are without going through our stuff. This is good. This is God’s doing.