God is quite small and unimportant.

That is the lie people love to believe. By believing this, they avoid concerning themselves about God.

A song that was popular a few years ago includes these lyrics.

“What if God is just like one of us

“What if god was one of us,

just a slob like one of us,

just a stranger on the bus trying to make his way home?

“Nobody calling on the phone,

'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome.”

ONE OF US by Joan Osborne

This quote is typical.

“Jesus is like us in every respect.

Don’t brush this sentence off casually. Let it sink in, deep to the core of who you are. God is like us in every respect. He is like the transgender woman who is worried she’ll be murdered while walking to her car after work. He is like the broken-hearted gay man who can’t attend the church of his childhood. He is like the bisexual intersex person who doesn’t conform to gender norms and endures the snide looks and sniggers of strangers. He is like these people just as much as the heterosexual man who is comfortable performing his gender in a way this society finds acceptable.”

WHERE TRUE LOVE IS: AN AFFIRMING DEVOTIONAL FOR LGBTQI+ 

INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR ALLIES by Suzanne DeWitt Hall

These two examples reflect common thinking and beliefs about God. Yet God is way more than we could ever begin to imagine.

1 Corinthians 2:8-10 KJV

[8] Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

[9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

[10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Job 9:10 KJV

[10] Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

Romans 11:33-36 KJV

[33] O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

[34] For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

[35] Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

[36] For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Now, we can only see a glimpse of the wonders to come.

1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV

[12]For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.