The God Box
Apr
17
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4/17/2010 9:29 AM
Do Christians limit what God can do?
God is all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere, right? That's why we Christians use such terms as omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Either that, or we use those words to demonstrate what big words we know and we don't really understand all that those words entail. I'm not implying that I have a firm grasp on these words myself, but think about what it really means to be all powerful. You may recall from one of my earlier blogs how I demonstrated that the people of Nazareth welcomed Jesus into the ministry by trying to "throw Him down over a cliff." Well, our story today comes from that same hometown of Jesus and sadly, again demonstrates the extent Jesus was rejected in Nazareth.
Matthew 13:54-58 ~ New King James Version
54 "When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, 'Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
55 'Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
56 'And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?'
57 So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, 'A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.'
58 Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief."
Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, was actually limited to what He could do in His own hometown because of what the people of Nazareth believed. Since we are believers in the Word and the Word says that, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8, NKJV), then it should go without saying that we believers can put limits on what God can do, or as the title of this blog suggests, put God in a box. "God is only so big and as long as He fits in this pretty box I got here, then everything will be alright." No, that's not what we physically say, but that's what our actions suggest. I could be wrong here, but it occurs to me that the root word for believers is "believe." Let's continue to challenge our own beliefs and study the Word and take God out of the box that we have put Him in!