![]() What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?”Īt the dedication of the Temple, Solomon prayed: My box for God included room for some pain and suffering -but definitely not enough space for Him to to allow the death of my child and plunge me into this abyss of grief and sorrow. I had decided that God acted in certain ways, that prayers guaranteed certain results and that my life as a believer in Christ was destined to be one of favor and blessing because I was honoring Him. ![]() ![]() Like Lewis, I’ve discovered that I had ideas about God, but that they were not necessarily true: “My idea of God is not a divine idea. I’ve had to pull out all my theological assumptions and compare what I thought I knew to what is in the Bible and what I have experienced in life. Grief has forced me to reexamine every notion I had of God and how He works in the world. The conclusion I dread is not ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but ‘So this is what God’s really like. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. ![]() Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. It brings me great comfort to know that one who was much more equipped to face a faith crisis found himself floundering in the ocean called sorrow and grief.īut he, like me, wasn’t sure he wanted to climb back in. His publishers and some of his close friends didn’t want people to know that this giant of the Christian faith, this celebrated apologist for believing Christ was shaken to the core by the death of his beloved bride. What many may not know is that he was pressured to publish it under a pseudonym. Lewis shared his grief journey after losing his wife in the book, A Grief Observed. I could quote verses for every occasion, open my Bible to any book without looking in the Table of Contents, and had something sprirtual to say about everything.Ĭ.S. I thought that after decades of walking with Jesus, reading and studying Scripture and wading through some fairly significant trials I had God pretty well figured out. It’s possible that you haven’t thought of it this way, but if you are a believer in Christ and have yet to walk through faith-shattering trials, you may have placed God in a box. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964) I never dreamed…’ I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, ‘It reminds me of straw.’ The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking ‘But I never knew before. God In The Box offers you a unique window to look at the views of others and a mirror to examine your own.Every idea of we form, He must in mercy shatter. One canÂ’t help but be transported inside The Box and once inside, as the filmmaker finds out, one canÂ’t help being transformed by the experience. Why do we have these images and ideas in our heads? Is this really God? This expedition leads down an evocative trail from our twenty-first century perspectives to the roots of our inspirations. Then with the help of an engaging collection of theologians, scholars and an archeologist, we analyze the answers and drawings. ItÂ’s an intimate peek inside our feelings – which is all weÂ’ve got, since itÂ’s impossible to come by facts about God. Everyone who goes in there is moved to self-expression. What happens next is a complete wildcard. The Box, which becomes a main character in its own story, is a vessel for people to step inside and answer the two, fundamental questions the film asserts: What does God mean to you? What does God look like to you? Inside The Box, thereÂ’s a stool, a drawing table, a sketchpad and pencils, plus microphones and cameras to record all the action. Follow along as they construct a curious Box and take it to iconic street corners and small towns, across the country. But they would do it by way of exploring what God looks like to us, or in other words, how we view God. They were in search of the meaning of God, which if you know them, is ironic. Have you ever wondered what God really looks like? Is it the same as when you first conceived of God? Does our view of God change with age and geography and what are the consequences of our convictions?Ī little more than three-years ago, a journalist named, Nathan Lang, our storyteller, along with a few buddies, also journalists, set out on an expedition of sorts. ![]()
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