It seems like we put everything in boxes -food, jewellery, tools, and even memory keepsakes. However, with boxes, some things just don't fit. God is a being that is not to be placed in a box. Although the text of the Bible may be black and white, remember that God is the one who created every colour of the rainbow, with way more than fifty shades of every colour. Why wouldn't He exceed our expectations, when He gave us the ability to even process expectations.

The Bible was written long ago, but God's words and God's love is eternal. Some may feel that the Bible restricts us, but I have learned that the Bible protects us. We have a father who has seen the history of all time, and who knows human nature better than we do. The mention of a love so great -God's love, is a reoccurring theme of the Bible. When Paul speaks of God's spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:6 he reminds us, "God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us."

When we take time to know God, His qualities of justice, wisdom, power, mercy, and love become well known to us. God exposed his qualities on Mount Sinai when He described himself as a God who is slow to anger, full of unfailing love and faithfulness and a God of compassion, mercy, and forgiveness, but also one who does not excuse the guilty (Exodus 34:6-7, NLT). 

Ours, is a complex God. How could we not feel like Paul felt when he wrote:"Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways"? (Romans 11:33, NLT) Our God is not dull and colourless, He is not simple and limited to our theoretical structures, He is complex and colourful and full of wisdom that surpasses our wisdom. To learn about His qualities we have to seek Him to gain that knowledge like Moses and Paul did. We cannot fit God into a box.

Leah J.