Friday, December 7, 2001
Friday, December 7, 2001
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said
to one another, "Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place,
which the Lord has made known to us."
Do you believe in that kind of God? Some people have a really messed-up picture of
God in their minds and hearts. Some of us who have been in the church all our lives
truly need to experience a re-birth in terms of our perception of who God is. We need
to take one long, last, lingering look into the manger of Bethlehem. Then we need to
look at Herod, the petty tyrant on his throne and we need to say to ourselves, God is
more like the Bethlehem babe than like Herod.
(Luke 2:15
NRSV)
God is not a God of whom we need to live in fear and loathing, as many people do.
God is not an insecure dictator, an intolerant tyrant as many have portrayed God. God
is pure, unlimited, unbounded love. We don't need to beat our chest and rend our
garments and cry out, "Oh, God have mercy on me, have mercy on me." There is no
un-mercy in God. We can approach God like a loving parent in confidence and joy and
in the assurance that God will never turn us away.
Lord Jesus, renew my image of God through the birth of Jesus who grew into my savior
and who brought me from darkness to hope, love and light. Amen.
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