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Date: 22 October 2005 00:24:04
We had interesting articles to read at Perspectives last week, they were to do with healing and other displays of God's power. One part of the discussion centred around an idea that when Jesus healed the sick and drove out demons, he was extending God's kingdom in the spiritual world. An interesting idea, but when I was explaining it to Leash when I got home, she said "Thinking on a big-picture level like that takes some of the personal relationship out of God. I think he heals people because he loves them and want's to see them be well."
It's been making me think all week. God is a lot of things to a lot of people, and I reckon that is one of the most important aspects of God - he's big, and very complex. Even if I find a way that I relate to God best, he's out there meeting other people all the time, in a million different ways. And people who say "It's not what God does for you but what you do for God" might be right, in that God is challenging them to do more. That doesn't stop God from meeting someone else's needs, someone who is too weak or timid to do Mighty Things. God can have relationship with them too. In a totally different way.
God is complex.