500th post (IS WINNN)

So it's been a pretty weird night so far.
I got home earlier today at around 5, I showered and took a nap.
Next thing I know, it's 12.30am.

I pretty much stared at the clock for a minute, then went "ahhhhhhhhhhhh, crap."

Heh, but it's alright, I needed the sleep anyway.

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In one way or another, you've put God in a box.

It's not your fault really, the vastness of God is pretty hard to imagine, let alone understand. It's perfectly normal to have to scale it down a little inside your mind. But the danger here is what that box is.

To some, it's a little jackpot box, like in casinos. With a lever, a display screen, and a slot for "insert prayer here". You pray, pull the lever, and wait to see if you've won anything.

To others, it's a locked chest. Every weekend, you open it, soak some God in, wear the nice halo. Then come monday morning, you lock it up again, take off the halo and let the horns grow out.

My point here is that everyone has their own interpretations of who God means to them. Sometimes God means our supply of blessings and provision, sometimes God means our only hope when everything around us is crap, sometimes God means the judgemental being just waiting, watching for our mistakes.

And some of that's right.

But so long as you keep your view of God one-sided, you're getting nowhere.

The weird thing is this: as long as we're here on earth, we're never going to experience all of who God is. It just ain't gonna happen. We're simply not ready for it.

So as long as we're here, God's always going to be in a box in our minds.

What changes is how big that box is. If all that box contains is judgement, you'll never love Him. If all that box holds is blessings, you're never going to seek Him for who He is, but for what He gives. If all that box holds is religious routine, you're not going to have a real relationship.

Open up your box. Discover more about who He is, the vastness of His character, what He loves, what He hates, His humour, His joy; the universe we live in is but a minute expression of all God is, you can never learn enough or understand enough about who He is.

How? Spend time with Him! Open up your box from just the weekends to your whole week. Slowly, you start seeing His fingerprints all around you. Open up your box to experience His love, and you'll see Him as more than just something to fear, but to love as well. The more you gaze into the nature of God, the more your understanding of Him increases, the bigger than box gets.

Open up that box. Don't be content with God as you know Him, but desire to know even more about God. Let that box get bigger until you find that God isn't a section of your life, but that He's in every sections, every part. Until the box of God envelops your life.

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on a side note, I love this song.



If to distant lands I scatter
If I sail to farthest seas
Would you find and firm and gather 'til I only dwell in Thee?
If I flee from greenest pastures
Would you leave to look for me?
Forfeit glory to come after
'Til I only dwell in Thee

[INSTRUMENTAL]

If my heart has one ambition
If my soul one goal to seek
This my solitary vision 'til I only dwell in Thee
That I only dwell in Thee
'Til I only dwell in Thee

This my solitary vision
Til I only dwell in Thee

heh, 500 posts and I'm only learning how to write what He's taught me. The solitary vision I seek for this blog to bless lives, through the words and knowledge I have. So thank you for your encouragements, keep reading :) let Him be glorified.

Driven by Eternity. Looking at life now as the starting point for the rest of everything. If we could realised the weight of our time here on the infinity of our time after, we'd live a little differently.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

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