We oversimplify God so we can own Him, so we can control Him, so we can dispense Him to others, so we can be the insiders with the true message. When we oversimplify Him we make Him subservient to our narrow thinking about Him. In this way, we not only keep God away from the world who needs Him, we have kept Him away from ourselves; we leave ourselves impoverished from the richness and beauty of the universal God who is a million light years beyond the greatest thought our little mind ever had of Him.
“For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.” (Psalm 97:9 NRSV)
From “Growing Toward Maturity”, by H. Lamar Smith View Here
