Filling in the Gaps

Building things can be fun ... and helps stir our creativity! Snowmen for instance take shape in our minds first, then are formed with our hands. Size, shape, and even decorations in the end create something more than the plain white wet stuff laying on the ground.

But what if it's not a snowman ... what's if it's something you've never even seen before, that is even hard to describe? What if you attempt to build something that doesn't even exist in the physical world? Hard to even imagine something that is unimaginable eh?

Or even more concerning, what if we try to build God based on what we perceive? What if we try to take the spiritual and force it into a physical box?

'"Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ' - Deuteronomy 4:15-16

While this warning is directly related to their weakness of being prone to idol worship, something they "knew" very well of in Egypt, it certainly applies to our human nature in general.

We love to fill in the gaps don't we?

Perhaps God gives you a Word, or stirs your heart, or you feel the prompting of the Holy Spirit ...

... but ... He doesn't give you the whole picture ... just step 1 ...

or perhaps He didn't seem to be clear on the timing ... I mean does now really mean now? Or wait really mean wait?

So what do we do? We fill in the gaps that "God forgot to tell us." ...

Oh what a slippery slope when we try to take away faith and trust from our walk and fill in the gaps with our own understanding, knowledge, and 'wisdom'.

Just another refreshing reminder from this control-freak gap-filler that I needed to hear ...

His,
~Matthew