God in the Box

Reading through chapter 14 in DOTE I was hit yet again with a recurring theme God has been challenging me with in the past year. The way that we [maybe I should be using the term I instead] reduce God into a means so that we can process and understand Him. We shove and squeeze and push as hard as we can to fit this infinitely GREAT Yahweh into our box of expectations. We lessen God's awesome works by doing so. Making ourselves blind to His majesty by holding on tightly and creating inflexible traditions, plans, or schedules just to be comfortable that we have a handle on who we think God is. And then this image of our perfect "God in the Box" [as I like to call it] is shattered by Darrel's statement that bookends the chapter, "the question is NEVER "will I be a disciple?" the question is ALWAYS "whose disciple will I be?"' I would like to pose a question for every member of this blog/bible study/re-evaluation of discipleship: Do we take the bowls from Rev. 16 literally or symbolic as well? As mentioned in an earlier post, I mentally fight myself from creating that imaginary world as I read through books, so I find myself a bit questioning the literal representation or the symbolic representation of the seven bowls. Father, I destroy our delicate container we have placed you in. Continue, through this study, friends, family, life in general, to reveal to us the way you break out of the box and allow us to see a small glimpse of your glory.