Monday, May 20, 2013

A PERSONAL GOD

Out of their tortured history, the Jews demonstrate the most surprising lesson of all:  you cannot go wrong personalizing God.  God is not a blurry power living somewhere in the sky, not an abstraction like the Greeks proposed, not a sensual super-human like the Romans worshipped, and definitely not the absentee watchmaker of the Deists.  God is personal.  He enters into people's lives, messes with families, shows up in unexpected places, chooses unlikely leaders, calls people to account.  Most of all, God loves. 

-- Philip Yancey in The Bible Jesus Read


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