Outside the Walls: Color Outside the Lines

Did Adam have a belly button? Where did Cain get his wife?
And exactly where was Lazarus before he came back to life?
How do I find my life by losing it, how can the first be last?
These are a few things I would like to ask.
God, if you’re the same as Jesus, and he’s the same as you,
All those times he prayed, who was he talking to?
The Father, Son, and Spirit, perhaps the greatest mystery …
If you are one, God, how can you be three?

One of my closest friends in ministry, Don Sanders, wrote that song. I always smiled when I heard him sing the toe-tapping, lighthearted tune, but it raised some serious questions. Sometimes God doesn’t make sense, and our human reason leads us to draw contrary conclusions from what we read in Scripture. In fact, I would venture to say that the more we get to know God, the more we realize how much we don’t know and understand.

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