A couple of things that I learnt from the book Autobiography of God(A book given by Christian for my 2001 bdae). I will touch on the illustration of the parables of new patches and new wine (Luke 5:17-39)
There's a great difference between the God of our experience and our experience of God. A mere shuffle of words will make such great difference. God of our experience, what I could understand, is he is the Overlord of what we do, how we do, when we do. God of our experience does not require an encounter with Him. We just let him do the controlling and we follow. This is almost like a Master-servant relationship where the servant does what he is order to do, which is not what HE wants. HE wants a relationship with us, just like the father to his children, a relationship based on understanding and knowing each other. To know someone, we need to interact with him. Interaction is a form of experience life with the person.
Interaction is always an ongoing process. We cannot communciate today and tomorrow we live in our own isolation. Such action will not only halt progree, but it may increase a relating distance between the two parties involve. An increased in distance will ultimately decrease the ability of reliance of one party on the other. Thus in the case with God, our reliance on him will slowly switch to other means. The most tentable one will the if HE is the God of our experience, in which we will be in dependance on the past, the past blessing of God. This could be become an idol as God never intended for us to know him as the God of the past, for HE repeatedly emphasize that HE is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow....the I was, I AM, and I Will. But the most often used the The God of I AM....the present God. This, entail, HE is a God that we can experience, not a God of our experience. Thus in Job 32:19, Joshua 9:13, Isa 43:19, Ezek 11:19 all can conclude that God is an innovator, reflecting persistently, relentness newness of God, whom we can declare him as Lord of new beginnings. Would it be such great excitement to have the great I AM, being our experience of God daily that brings forth innovative and new beginning of our life that beyond what we can image.....as HE mould us more more Chirst-like.
Just to encourage, a life in the spirit, allowing God to move with full surrender plus obedience will result in a fruitful experience. This, in turns, will allows us to fully appreciate the proning work of the Father. Remember, since HE is holy, and all things belongs to Him as his creation, we have, especially as we are images of God, what it takes to follow him.
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