A defining moment is that moment in time when either a new truth or an old truth is brought front and center in our lives. And suddenly, we are forced to view all of life through this new truth, and life looks different and eventually becomes different.
The Bible says that one of the reasons why Jesus came to this earth was to present God in such a way that could not be missed and could not be denied. He wanted to present God in such a way that we would no longer be deceived into thinking God is who we want God to be rather than who God is. You see, for most of us, we have a very difficult time letting God be something beyond our paradigm of who we think God is. Read that last statement again. When we limit God to our box of who we think He is and how we think He works, we have a difficult time letting Him be anything greater that what we can imagine or we can think.
The challenge for us is, when we are confronted with new truths about God, will we embrace it? Or will we, as so many do, retreat to what we are accustomed to, so we can be comfortable? Will we allow our imagination to be stretched, or will we confine God to our perception of who He is.? Will we allow Him to be bigger than our preconceived ideas, or will we continually restrict His working in our lives to that which we are accustomed?
And if we only allow Him to work in the arenas with which are familiar, in the ways in which we are comfortable, doesn't He cease to be God, and simply becomes an idol that we have created?
We are going to look at a very familiar story this week which will challenge us to grapple with the truth that God reveals to us. It is an amazingly humorous story that challenges our pre-conceived notions of God and forces us to re-evaluate the limitations with which we place on Him. But if we are willing to grapple with these truths, we can experience true freedom. Jesus said in John 8:32: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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