We often struggle to let God be who God truly is. Our tendency is to mold God into a reflection of our own preferences, values, and systems. This approach limits God to the confines of our understanding and reinforces our biases. The First Commandment warns against creating images of God, not just physical ones but also the rigid ideas we hold in our minds. These images make God small, clannish, and shaped by our egos. If God is Mystery, then God will always challenge our expectations and comfort zones. If you comprehend it, it is not God. We need to stay open to a God who is beyond comprehension, beyond our control. Let us remain vigilant against the temptation to reduce God to our cultural or personal projections.
May we embrace the Mystery of God,
trusting that what we cannot comprehend
leads us closer to the divine.
(inspired by Richard Rohr, A Spring Within Us; Augustine, Sermon 117:5)