He's Out

One Saturday morning while I was still in bed thinking about trying to wake up enough to drag myself out of my warm bed … I saw a large wooden crate … a box that had the top taken off with the corner tabs opened up so that all four sides were laying flat on the floor; each side pointing to one of the four directions on a compass. The box was empty.

I saw it in my mind or my spirit, one or both; I'm not real sure how that works … it looked and felt to me like it was real. I wasn't in the picture at all. I didn't think too much about it at the time except one thought came to me along with the picture of this flattened wooden box. I didn't hear anything audible, but yet it was as if the Lord was speaking these words to me …

"There, I've kicked apart … for the last time … that box you keep trying to put me in. Don't put me in it again."

In the past year or so I have told Peggy several times … "Every time I get God in the box where I want Him, He always makes a pile of kindling out of it. He kicks it all to pieces." Three or four times in the past when I had God neatly arranged in my doctrinal box … He would break out of these boxes and leave behind a pile of broken, splintered up wood just laying on the ground. But He didn't do that this last time.

This time He carefully took my box apart and left it laying on the ground because it wasn't big enough for Him; it was only big enough to hold my personal doctrine. By doing so, I don't think God was trying to destroy my doctrine, my box I kept Him in … but rather to show me that He is making more room for a better understanding of His true and living Word which contains … God's Doctrine, not mine.

As I look back over the last few months I remember talking to many people that unknowingly keep God in "a box" for the purpose of legitimatizing their own personal doctrine of faith … "see here's all we want God to do" … sort of thing. When we do that we have it all backwards. We can't make God "fit" our personal doctrine … we should make our personal faith fit God's doctrine.

I am sure at this present time God is showing me that … "He's out" … and He wants to stay that way; out of the small tiny box that I have kept Him in. If the universe can't contain Him; then we are robbing ourselves of the size of His greatness and the ability to do big things for us if we keep Him in a box.

He also wants me to allow Him the freedom to work "His works" in and through me. You see, up to now I would only let Him perform the things that kept me safe inside my box … my comfort zone.

Isn't God good. Isn't He patient and understanding as He waits for us to grow up in Him. How dare anyone, including me, to try and contain God in a box of any size?

I love the writings of Solomon who came to this conclusion about the workings and conduct of God as he looked at life; (the following is my translation) …

"God can and will do whatever He wants, whenever He wants, to whomever He wants and there is nothing anyone can do about it. And even so, all is just as it should be because everything He does is always … just and right."

I think I have come to the conclusion that God doesn't follow any rules.

"Don't put me in it again."

I'm going to remember His words to me this time.