A picture is not enough

Wow! Still blown away by DJ's take on the second commandment. For so long, I thought this commandment was just saying "don't worship idols", so without realizing its current relevance I would move on. But that's not the point, God gave us this commandment to warn us against worshiping Him in the wrong way. And what is the wrong way? It's limiting God to the things we can see and imagine. 

The things I use to describe God or associate with God (boats, sunrises and sunsets, the water, mountains, music, metaphors, etc.) are not bad things, but none of them show me the full picture of who God is. These images, when I depend on them to portray God accurately and fully, will fail me. But, good news! God knows us so well and knows that we imagine and try to understand things bigger than we can understand so He sent Jesus to be the perfect image of himself that would not be limited, and would not lead us astray, and to be a means for us to meet with God any time, and actually be God. So we can look at images and appreciate them but look past them as they point to Jesus.

What I keep coming back to is that it is because God so intimately knows us and our desires, that he provides the commands, and then sent Jesus to be the fulfillment of the promise that is in the commands. 

Some other things that I thought were cool:

• DJ talking about how parents images of God affects children's views and continues through generations. This reminded me of how the way we experience love growing up affects how we view God. 
• DJ said this in one of the other sermons too, but he said it again in this one. Only an infinite God can fill our finite hearts, which got me thinking about numbers (haha typical). But basically there are an infinite amount of numbers within any given interval, say for example between 0 and 1. That interval is small and seems finite like our hearts, but God in his infiniteness fills our hearts like the infinite amount of numbers that fills the gap between 0 and 1! (note: this is just a metaphor. I am not trying to say God is the whole set of real numbers.)

Anyways, I'm super excited to read everyone else's thoughts and continue growing with you all!

-Ellie