One of the people I follow on Twitter is Deepak Chopra, and this morning I found this:

@Deepak_Chopra Our experience of God evolves as we evolve.

This is so true. It isn’t that God evolves, God may not. God may be exactly the same today as 10,000 years ago, but what changes is our experience of God, and thus our understanding of God. In fact for us to have a healthy relationship with God, with ourselves and with others, our experience of God must evolve. Otherwise we stay stuck, and immobilized.

Creation, but it’s very nature is a dynamic process of destruction and construction. When we attempt to force God, and our experience of God to be the same, we fail to acknowledge the greatest aspect of God, which is creation. God isn’t stifled, creation continues, but we loose sync with it, we become ignorant of it. It is like being in a beautiful flower garden. We may know that there are beautiful flowers all around us, but we refuse to inhale and experience their fragrance, so we miss experiencing the fullness of our experience of God.

The greatest example of a failure for our collective experience of God, is the forced adherence by some, to a purely Biblical experience of God. The Bible describes the experience of God by others in another time, space and set of circumstances. Not only does this fail to acknowledge our own experience of God, either collectively or individually, but it refuses to accept or acknowledge the reality of creation that is being human. It reduces God to a concrete set of attributes, expressions, behaviors and meanings- the exact opposite of creation.