God in A Box?

All mankind has ever sought

Is to find their Creator in a box

Yet when He was born and in a box did lay

Couldn’t except that box as it came another way

Pharisees boxed him telling Him how He could and should behave

They boxed Him in the end on the cross and tombed Him in a grave

Forgetting  He had chosen to box Himself to help them to find

As He desired to dwell amongst them in the midst of mankind

Yet still they created the box and they treasured it well

Not realizing that it was not there He desired to reside

for it was within man that He would choose to dwell

Not in a box, not in a formula, not in a box, not in an idea, not in a box,
not in a theology, not in a box

We can not define Him with our intelligent conversation or lengthy educational talks

No chain can bind Him, restrain or hold Him down for He came to unlock

To loose, release, set free, let fly, let be … me and you

For if He was in a box then they would stay there too

So instead He came in the flesh to show us how to “out of the box” get

But those called to be followers have not caught this simple lesson yet

For we like our creators, our saviours and our helpers in packages so neat and tidy

So we can predict, fortell and understand everything that is hidden or hiding.

Dare that we should trust, believe and obey in what we can not control everyday

To let the Spirit lead and guide and each individual to let Him live inside

For no box can hold Him , contain Him , control Him,

He is all that is and was and ever shall be

God of the universe, living in me

Dare that I should let my simple mind

Create a box so I can keep Him inside

Freedom is what He came to give to me, the Creator of all Destiny

So everyday, everywhere, everyone can use the keys to unlock

For know this one thing…

Our God was never, ever in the box.

 

Charmaine Hinds