Have you ever been in a church/worship setting singing along and stopped to wonder, "What on earth am I singing?" I do it all the time. I'm the kind of person who wants to analyse everything; I love layers of meaning, and I love asking myself questions about the things that I believe in. The other day I was in church and we were singing the song "How great is our God". I was singing away, and then something in my mind turned. I stopped singing and thought, "I don't own God, so how can I say how great MY God is?" Maybe your mind doesn't bend this way, but for me, I was struggling. I really struggle with people who like to polarise, you know the ones who make all kinds of extreme statements that separate people into two different camps; us vs. them. I don't think God really wants people to separate as much as God wants to unite people. Love, as strange as this may seem, is confronting because it breaks down the barriers that difference can create. Love sees people who are other as common because we share in the commonality of humanity.
So, I don't own God. For me, God is the ultimate mystery and we'll only catch a glimpse through the lens of love.
