Bending My Thoughts of the Other

One my biggest goals in life is mutating my thoughts of God into more accurate representations of God's holiness, and in this case I mean by that, God's otherness.

God is other than the human. At the root, He is light, and our sinfulness is only acquainted and accustomed to dwelling in the darkness. Therefore one of my biggest quests is to spend time thinking of God in ways not often thought about by our society today, (and hopefully) ways that bring us out of our pop culture's theological darkness.

In this way it is a voice from the wilderness so to speak, recovering aspects of God's multifaceted nature long lost. Aspects that are nonexistent today because we are entrenched in a narrow tunnel vision of God continually being perpetuated and reinforced by our American Evangelical culture.

John the Baptist preached a God coming, a God which the world did not know, and his message was repent. When the Messiah came, the world still did not have the mental framework capacity to cope with Isaiah 53's "suffering servant," and therefore John, who prepared the road, still could not fully rupture humanity's hearts. The people cognitively suffered from tunnel vision in what they expected the Messiah to be.

Let us not be surprised when we rediscover God, and the long forgotten but highly valuable aspects of the Godhead. May God break American Evangelical tunnel vision.
-God is the grieving God [Jesus wept, Holy Spirit continually grieves] Prophets wept.
-God's relentless pursuit of humanity throughout the ages of time [don't you pharisees know who I am? [Luke 15, pursuit of what is lost]
-God's drawing humanity back through a series of questions (Adam [Gen 3], and Cain [Gen 4])
-God's intensity
-God never sleeps
-Idea of the Holy

May God interrupt me today, so that I may be a little less like my old self tomorrow.