Image Bearers: Reflecting God, Rejecting Idols

Are you limiting God to this room on a Sunday morning? Are you limiting God by only letting him speak through the person that has the microphone? Are you how are you limiting God in your life? Are you carrying him out of here? Are you using your voice? Are you being willing to be used by God? How do we limit God? And there's so many different areas that I believe that we do limit God. And so maybe you don't manufacture, like, this tangible idol, and, you're thinking, okay. We're good. But instead, what we do is we manufacture an image in our head. We all picture who God is. Right? [00:32:10] (48 seconds)  #DontBoxGod

And so how are we limiting God? Instead of thinking about bringing him down into a space and putting him into a box, which we tend to do, imagine if we didn't constrain him, contain him, put him in a box, but imagine if we trusted that God was bigger and better than anything that we could think or imagine. And we might think that like, yeah, I know that. I know, like, in my head, that's true. I've heard that before. But do we live it? Right? How are we limiting God? I think if we truly believed that we weren't reducing or containing him, that we would have maybe an increased faith. [00:31:23] (47 seconds)  #TrustGodBigger

Do you see God as only loving and not holy and not just? How we see God directly affects how we relate to him. And so when we're thinking about how we are seeing God, that's affecting our relationship with him. Is he the first one that we are running to? Is he the first one that you want to talk to when you're going through something? Or are you someone that wants to run and hide in shame because you see God as a harsh judge and someone that you're just never measuring up for? Is he someone that you're trying to constantly win the approval of? How do you see God? Because this is affecting how we relate to him. [00:33:45] (47 seconds)  #HowYouSeeGod

And so when we are picturing God, it's important to think about how we see God. So how do you see God? Because this is important because the way that we see God directly affects how we relate to him. So how do you see God? How do you think about God? Do you think God, like an old man up in heaven floating on some clouds with a long beard? Do you think of God as this genie who is there to answer your emergency prayer requests? Do you think God is a distant God who just doesn't really have much sway in your in your life and maybe just don't even really think about him a lot? [00:32:58] (47 seconds)  #GodBeyondImages