The Box

 Consider the box.

Think about it's edges, limitations, corners.

Boxes are dreadful things.

Whether it be physical or metaphorical, they are difficult to work with.

Lift with your legs, not your back!  How many times has a heavy cardboard moving box pulled a muscle?

So many times we are told to "think outside the box," meaning break out of traditional thinking, straining our brains and causing endless hours of stress trying to be original.

See?

Pesky.

Difficult.

Dreadful.

If boxes have edges, corners, and limitations, then God certainly does not fit inside a box.  I have been telling myself and others not to put God in a box for a while now.  It is one of my favorite things to tell people, because God has no limits.  There is nothing God can't do.  How could our omniscient, omnipotent God fit into a box?

I have been trying so hard to not put limits on God.  I have tried to keep all the doors, windows, and pathways in my life open to how God moves by not planning anything anymore.  I had decided that making plans causes me to get stuck in a single tunnel-like mindset.  So I decided to stop planning.  No planning = no limiting God.  Fool proof.

"But what if God wants you to plan," a dear friend asked me.

Crap.

You mean God might want me to plan?  You mean by trying not to limit God I have limited Him?  You mean that because our God is omnipotent He can make plans happen if He tells me to make them?
Crap.I guess I put God so far outside the box that I accidentally captured Him inside another.

PS I am leading a mission trip this summer with Adventures in Missions.  It costs me $1500 for two months out of the country (I will know which country I am going to soon).  If you are interested in supporting me, you can email me at kiersten.smith@hotmail.com or go here.  Be sure to select "The Passport" and to put "Kiersten Smith" in the participant name box.