I think I agree with this quote. I don't want to be taught things that aren't true and live my life believing something that is false. I also have and interesting and possibly scandalous proposition for you.
What do you think would happen if we approached God like a barefoot ragamuffin? What if we questioned everything that we know about God? What if we started striving for a different sort of relationship with God? That we would gather our doubts, our fears, and all the things we just don't get about God and approached him with it?
Sometimes we think that we have to clean up our act before we can go to God. That we have to answer our own questions before we go to ask them. We subconsciously do this, it's like deep down we still think that God doesn't think we are good enough. We think this even though we know that itself is preposterous and we know that God loves us despite our faults. We don't really think that if we went to God with our possibly irrelevant or even irreverent questions that he would shun us or say "That's it you're hopeless, I am done with you."
God is a personal god because he is big enough to handle our incessant questioning. He doesn't want us to worship him at a distance. He wants a deep, meaningful, intimate relationship with us. And part of intimacy is getting close enough so that we can ask God anything and everything. Sometimes when I'm in bed starting to fall asleep God just shows up and I won't be able to stop myself from laughing and grinning like a fool, and though it may be a little weird it's me and God and there's nothing greater than that.
God wants to know us with our quirks, our messes and everything. I'm a mess; I am falling apart constantly. And when I worship it God it kinda presents itself. And that's okay. It is perfectly fine to go to church and cry through the whole thing because that's how you figure stuff out with God. It's okay to dance like crazy for God and then be sore for days afterwords because of how into worshiping God you got. It's okay to feel like you need to be super still to hear God or to need to do something as an act of worship that everyone may look at you strangely for.
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. -Colossians 1:17
God is big enough, he's strong enough, smart enough, and confident enough to handle us and all of our burdens, worries, fears, and problems we have. Trust him to catch you. I promise you that it will be worth it.
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