God informed Asaph, the author of Psalm 50, “These things you have done and I kept silence; you thought I was just like you” (verse 21).
I used to be into “spirituality.” I gathered elements from a variety of sacred tradition sources and formed a quasi-religious framework upon which I hung my cherished ideals. The system of theology that evolved was a hodgepodge collection of ever-changing notions about the divine nature of Higher Power and His (or Her) participation in human affairs.
When the Lord peered from heaven to observe my jumbled collection of pious thoughts and “spiritual” pursuits, He must have said, “You thought that I was just like you.”
That was then. Something (or should I say Someone) happened. His name is Jesus. I no longer believe God is “just like me.”
