Just a thought by coppi

Just a thought by coppi 

The deep fear behind every loss is that we have been abandoned by the God who should have saved us. The transforming moment in Christian conversion comes when we realize that even God has left us. We then discover it was not God, but our image of God that abandoned us…. Only then is change possible.” (Margaret Manning Shull is a member of the speaking and writing team at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Bellingham, Washington.)

Oh my-when I read this, the words that soaked into my being was “the deep fear behind every loss is that we have been abandoned by God who should have saved us”.  And then I read “it was not God but our image of God that abandoned us” and my image of God was a God sitting on a throne with a big stick ready to “pop” me if I did anything wrong. Children are very malleable and if you tell them the moon is made of blue cheese, they just might believe you.  I was a very pliable child and set under a minister that taught a lot about hell, fire, and damnation.  As a result, my God became a very angry God.  To find the love of God became my quest and it was a tedious and long struggle.  I began to read the Bible for myself and not listen to a lot of hell, fire, and damnation ministers.  I prayed to know the love of God and gradually that God sitting on a throne with a big stick became a God who loved me and sacrificed his son, Jesus, on that stick (the cross).  “Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me