Why do we put so much value in things? What is a thing to begin with? Google definitions defines a thing in this way;
- a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing"
- an action; "how could you do such a thing?"
- an artifact; "how does this thing work?"
- an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."
- a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?"
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; "the thing I like about her is ..."
- a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"
- matter: a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
- an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was"
- a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him"
- a separate and self-contained entity
I don't know what I really wanted to say in this post. I think what i was going to go for was the idea that I believe that all too often we view God as a thing. We put God in box and say "Yeah i have this thing in my life called God" and then we put Him away back in our God box. I think that I could argue though that God is a thing, He is EVERYTHING! He is the sunrise, the sunset and everything in between. He is the smile on her face to the changing color's of the leaves. God's presence and fingerprints are on it all. Its all there because of Him. How can we overlook God and shrink Him down to such a thing. How can we put all that is in a box and downplay the reality of God being there.
God is so big, and I can't even begin to fathom it. I've been reading Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell and he was explaining something and he said that it had thingness. I don't recall what he was talking about, not because it was bad, but because i just began thinking about what in my life has thingness and the idea of what thingness could be. I know that my car is a thing, i know that i have a thing for Skyline, and i know that things happen in my life. I also know that of all the things i have the one thing i don't want to be a thing is God. He is God and God only. Without God there is no thingness. I guess my question is how do we let the thing God out of the thing box to be viewed as Everything the Creator of things. Well i think this is enough thinging for now, but i encourage you to evaluate things in your life and see if God is one of them. See if you have a thing God or if God is Everything.
