Taking God out of the Box

OK... You know when you hear something over and over, and you begin to think maybe God is trying to tell you something. I have to share the latest thing I think God is saying to me.

"I WON'T FIT IN A BOX... LET ME OUT AND SHOW AND TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT!"

It started this past weekend when Greg decided to "clean" (the term is used loosely) the garage. Really it was just straighten the garage because his definition of "clean the garage" and my definition are two entirely different things.

So, Greg was "straightening" the garage... and he finally decided to get rid of all the empty boxes we had been saving since we moved in almost 2 years ago (I can't believe it's been that long). For some reason we thought we would use them again. But what do you really need large empty boxes for anyway... unless you are moving again... and we are not!

So there you go... the first "box" reference. What do you need boxes for? Are they useful for anything, or do they just take up space? Isn't it more fun to take something out of a box than to put something in a box... you know like at Christmas? Why do we hold on to boxes?

Then last night as I was putting the kids to bed they were making up songs. You know how kids change the words to songs they already know and then sing them. Spencer started to sing "Little Red Box." 

If you don't know this song go here. Unfortunately, I don't have video of my kid singing it, but you get the idea of the song. He changed the words to..

 

"I wish I had a little white box to put my Jesus in, I'd take him out and go Um Um Um and put him back again" (insert hugging motion on the Um Um's)

"I wish I had a little black box to put Satan in, I'd take him out and go Um, Um, Um and put him back again." (insert punching motion on the Um Ums :) )

Cute right, he's going to hug Jesus and punch out Satan. But the first thing I said to him was, "You can't put God in a box." 

"Why"

"Because he's too big, he won't fit." 

Then I proceeded to try to explain to a 4 and 8 year old all the reasons why we shouldn't put God in a box and what that means. Entirely too much of a conversation for them or me to comprehend right before bed. 

After putting the kids to bed, I was talking to my friend Carol and we were talking about our presentation at Glorietta in the fall. And it's called... you guessed it "Boxes." I'm not kidding.

Then, today, I was having a conversation with my friend Carol again. (BTW, we talk on the phone way too much ;) ) We were discussing how big God is and how we just can't understand Him. He is so powerful and can do anything but we try to limit him... we put Him in a box. Hmmm... I think I just told my kids we aren't supposed to do that.

Ok... I'm beginning to get the message. Then I came upstairs to read some blogs and clicked on 

Boo Mama. Her post today is on unboxing. Again, not kidding. She has some fabulous pics of unboxing one of her favorite things. Made me want to go snack. 

Now... Just imagine if we "unboxed" God and then took videos and pictures and told everyone about it... Now that would be something worth watching. Do you think it would make everyone else want to go "unbox" Him too?