Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us

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“God has made clear what He has chosen to reveal. Other things, perhaps, He’s waiting to reveal within the intimacy of an actual relationship.” (source)

“It’s like every relationship we’ve ever begun. We begin with an honest conversation. As a relationship progresses, we become more honest and reveal more and more of who we are. Over time we feel safe and comfortable, and trust is given. Eventually we become aware that we’ve fallen in love, and this leads us deeper in our level of intimacy. Eventually we commit everything we are to the one we love. Fully given to the relationship, we can be completely naked, unashamed, and unafraid.” (source)

“So getting to know God is really not as mysterious and complicated as we’ve made it.” (source)

“We think we know a lot about many things, including God. And we’ve created a box or a frame for this knowledge because it gives us some sort of context to explain what is unexplainable. But what if all that knowledge won’t fit in the box? What if we get a bigger box and it still won’t fit? What if all that we think we know has been forced into the wrong frame? We can keep looking at the picture, knowing there is something off about it, or we can take it down from the wall and reframe it.” (source)

“The goal is that we are with each other, that we are for each other, and that we love each other unconditionally” (source)