Sometimes I have some pretty big questions about God. Like why-come he doesn’t just answer us yes and no? Wouldn’t humanity get along a lot better if when we prayed we heard a big booming “YES GO THAT WAY,” or, “NO. I WON’T GIVE YOU THE NEW CAR.” But then I started thinking about how God answered people in the Bible. He’s pretty uniform in his ambiguous answers. In the Old Testament he used burning bushes and clouds to get his point across. He didn’t even show up to Moses as a single being, he had to use fireworks and a fog machine. It’s as if the God of the Old Testament is always being translated, siphoned, and then watered down before the human eye can even comprehend him.
The New Testament isn’t any different. Jesus who is the Son of man couldn’t even talk about himself and his mission straight on. He used parables. Always making his answer a 3D version of what it should be. When talking to his disciples Jesus gave multiple definitions for the Kingdome of heaven. It’s like a mustard seed or a field with treasure in it. What? God is like that though. He’s 3D. Where we would hope for One God and one answer to our questions he’s gone and split himself into 3. A trinity. I get the image of standing in front of a funny-mirror at a fair. When your standing in front of one of those things you get more than one warped view of your body.
Over and over again God shows us this 3D picture of himself. I’m starting to think that we’re not able to see him as a 1D kinda guy simply because we are too small to fathom him that way. For him to answer us dead on, yes or no, we’d have to be somehow translated into beings like him. I guess that’s what heaven is for… so that we can sit and talk to him face to face without all the funny business. Yep. I’m looking forward to that.
