My Tailor-Made God

[316 words] In your Bible reading, do you ever come across something that doesn’t fit into your theology? The margins of my daily reading Bible are full of my comments, references, and a few question marks. The question marks mean that I don’t know God as well as I need to. They say, “Your theology (understanding of God) is too small.” I wonder if we too often pick and choose passages to support our idea of how we want God to be…and ignore others. One of the passages that became popular (used as a basis of articles, books, and sermons) is Jeremiah 29:11, “‘For I know the plans I have for you’ declares the Lord; ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” The same God gave this message to the prophet (Jer. 21:10), “I have determined to do this city…