We are wired to be on the hunt for God.
If He is the prize, then we want to find Him as He truly is--the utter and true God--as He exists with or without us, exactly as He wants to be found.
Take any story--Little Red Riding Hood, for instance. The story exists above whatever language in which we share it. My English, your French or Spanish or Romanian, all tell the story and it is important that we are accurate. The story exists with or without--above, so to speak--our language for communicating it.
The truth of God is the Story. It exists with or without us--above us--and with or without our language for communicating it.
What is that Story? How do we go about hunting for the utter and true God and find Him--and tell the Story--exactly as He wants to be found and shared?
Do we clamor that our way is the only way and shut down others who have a genuine heart for the hunt?
There is only one way, one Story. There is only one God and one Truth that He is about. The absolute fact that we are created means we have one and only one Creator.
The pause button here is that before we can examine that Story, would it be pleasing to this utter God to unseat ourselves from the clamor?
If first we place value on every soul who is in the hunt with us, regardless of how they currently interpret the Story, then we honor each of (this One and Only) God's creations.
To honor each other--to respect the "language" of each hunter--is to honor God. This respect does not diminish the Story. It opens the door for conversation that will help hunters the world over discover the utter and true Story.
Tomorrow: how can we know the Story?
