We Don’t Own God

I wrote in my prayer journal last week: “The God of majesty is our God. Not mine, not yours, but ours.”

I think when we worship or pray our flesh leads us to subtly twist the words “our God” to be a sign of division, as in he is mine, not yours, or he is ours, not yours. We begin to tug on God like he is a teddy bear between two spoiled children, or like a narcissistic brat. And that is no way to think of our God. To declare “our God” in worship is to dispossess him, to say he is not ruled, he is not divisible, he is not a token or idol. He is not our trophy to place on the mantle and say look at “our God” like one would point out a painting.

We must learn that the more we dispossess God, the more we teach ourselves that God is beyond our grasp, the more we will feel that he possesses us.