What a Quirky God we serve

What a quirky God we serve,
What a quicky God we serve.
Angels bow before Him,
Heaven and Earth adore Him,
But what a quirky God we serve.

Some of you will recognize the praise song I balderized above. The word isn’t supposed to be quirky, it is supposed to be Mighty. And most theologies get wrapped up and fixated on the mighty portion of God, the Omnis — Omniscient Omnipotent and Omnipresent. Libertarian theology doesn’t.

Oh, the Omnis are taken for granted, they are essential for what libertarian theology does concentrate on, the limitations. Not how God is limited (deistic evolutionists do that one by limiting God’s Omnis), but how God limits Himself, relationally and morally and ethically. Limiting the Omnis is an impersonal thing, the way God limits Himself is very personal.

If you concentrate on the Omnis, you can get a view of God that Paul describes in Romans, everyone knows God exists, because creation tells them so. But He had to come to earth for us to know him personally; creation cannot tell us about God’s personality (personalities, actually, there are at least three of them, at least one for each person of the Godhead). We talk about a personal God, but most of our theologies make him very Impersonal, strip any hints of personality from him. We have to relate to Him to get to know him.

And like any person, any personality, it is unique. We can define many things about any OMNI deity, but to know His personality we have to relate to Him, talk to Him, listen to him. Those monks and nuns and hermits and people spending all that meditating time, some of them are just racking up numbers, but a lot of them are probably actually getting to know the quirks of the deity.

Lately I have been given the inkling that God likes surprises. A benefit of our free will is that we can actually surprise God. And like us, a lot of surprises are pleasant, but not all.

Jasini noted to me that the Centurion that wanted his servant healed Surprised Jesus. “I have not found such faith in all Israel.”

Are you relating to the Triune God, through one or more of His personalities? Not just wishful thinking, make-believing a God in your own image, but really talking, asking, arguing laughing, crying, challenging and being challenged? What are you learning about him? I would like to know.

You shouldn’t see and experience exactly the things I do, so we can also learn from each other, but we both should come to know enough about Him to recognize when someone is faking it, telling us things about Him that aren’t true, not because they aren’t stated precisely the same way we say it, but because they go against the things we have learned about Him and from Him, shared through creation and our Day to Day walk with Him.