It is easy to humanize God, to take the things that we do all the time and apply them to God because it seems normal. This isn’t uncommon; all throughout the Scriptures people have taken their understanding of what it means to be human and applied it to God. Even the ancient cultures did the same thing with their understanding of the gods. What are some ways that you’ve humanized God in your life?
Have you ever been in a relationship with someone where you blew it? I mean you totally did something wrong to them, you pushed them too far and their love for you seemed to run out? Or maybe it’s the other way around, you had this friend who kept hurting you, and hurting you, until you just couldn’t take it anymore, and your love for them just seemed to evaporate?
Read Romans 8:38-39 and write down your thoughts
When we examine our past, it is easy to humanize God and worry that eventually He’ll give up on us, just like I did to so-and-so. But God’s nature is not our nature. You see, the Love of God goes beyond anything we can understand. Paul lists off a whole bunch of things that won’t be able to separate us from God’s love, and I’m pretty sure he just ran out of things to say. Basically Paul is saying that there is nothing we can do to make God love us any less. Nothing.
May you begin to see that God doesn’t see you for what you’ve done, but who you are becoming.
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