In the ebb and flow of life, we live in reactionary thinking. One generation keeps God at arms length that causes the next generation to bring God down to our level, which causes the next generation to put God out at arms length again. God is so Holy Other we can't conceive him to... God is so much a buddy that he would never correct me.
The problem really lies in the fact that God is both of those, a friend who is familiar with our weakness and a mighty God, unfathomable. We have to learn how to let Him be all that he is not just the part we like.
I bring all of that up because one verse today really stood out to me. It stood out to me because I see that I might be part of the problem in regards to balance in certain matters. The verse is 22:26b... "They have made no distinction between the holy and the common..."
It seems that, in an effort to make God feel accessible in our day, we (I) have wanted to help encourage God as part of the common. And he certainly is part of our everyday moments of life...but...on the other hand... God is not common, like Keebler he is "Uncommonly Good." An effort to make God feel so much like us that we have access to Him is true and helpful, but always to be understood in light of the fact that He is Holy, Perfect, All-Knowing, All-Powerful, Almighty, All-that-and a bag of chips!!
What a great thing to make the distinction between the Holy and the common. God's not a blade of grass outside my window...that's common. What a worthy pursuit, to press into what is uncommon!
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