Who is God... really?

"Am I going to put up with questions from people like you, Israel? As sure as I am the living God, I, God, the Master, refuse to be called into question by you!" Ezekiel 20:31

As we have moved into a kinder, gentler era where everyone can believe whatever they like, we have subtly redefined who God is. In fact, we could possibly suggest that all generations do it as we are tempted to make God in our image. So, God from one generation to the next looks remarkably like the generation of that time.

We tend to call God into question. Sometimes in our kinder, gentler generations we say "Nah, God doesn't judge like that. God is love." In the more barbaric generations such as the Crusades we have tended to take judgement into our own hands as that is what we assume God would want us to do.

God, in Ezekiel says "I refuse to be called into question by you." We don't have any right to question God's judgement just because he doesn't happen to fit our mould at the time.

This is where we need to read the scripture with eyes open to see who God is...really.

God, help me not to be blinded by the here and now and, in the process, completely miss who you really are.