"What do we do with new insights about God that disturb us?"
"What do we do when God reveals Himself in a way that doesn't fit our paradigm of who He is or how He has revealed Himself before?"
Darrell asked many questions like these throughout the sermon. I found myself excited and a little scared at the same time. Just like Sunday/Monday nights during the summer. Darrells encouragement to us to press into these new revelations of who God is no matter how disturbing or different was encouraging. So encouraging, that I want to encourage all of us to do the same!
At the Admin retreat we will be staring at a mountain of information and new tasks to be done. It can be overwhelming. You may even hear a voice say, "You can't do this!" BUT I ENCOURAGE you to press into this "new" "disturbing" revelation of who God is! Allow Him to blow your mind as He draws near to you in this foreign and disturbing way (usually our pride will be offended).
All of us have preconceived ideas of who God is, how God should act, when God should act, and why God should act...especially when I ask Him to! A God that can be manipulated by me a mere human is no God at all. When the one true living God appears and reveals himself to us in a disturbing way that doesn't fit our paradigm we should rejoice! In radical grace and mercy - God is saving us from ourselves!
"Lord- come and save us from us we pray!"
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