Your View of God as a Child

[kari21]

I'm just curious...

What was your view of God as a child? Was he most like a judge? A grandfather? A school principal? What?

Now that you're older, how do you view him? Has He become friendlier over the years? More stern? Or about the same?

[Scarletprayers]

I figured he was just like my grandfather only with a long beard and a robe, now I don't know I really try to picture him, but he is still like my grandfather.........

[minte_1]

really weird, but I have never had a picture of God in my head. I view HIs nature though or should I say countenance as a God of love... Loving Kind accepting even though all knowing

[Deepblue]

As a kid I imagined a bright light when I thought of God. Sometimes I would imagine giant hands. So big that I could stand in the middle of them. When my uncle died I imagined God bringing down his big hands and lifting him up into Heaven. When God buried Moses, I imagined God picking Moses up with one hand, and digging a grave with one swipe in the dirt with the other. I never questioned the Lord as a child, and I never once blamed or got angry at him for anything. Sadly, now that I am older I have done such things as this. But, I still know he is a God os love and mercy.

[kari21]

My own view was the grandfather one...until I stopped believing in him altogether in favor of an atheistic evolutionary worldview. When I realized my folly in high school, and returned to believing in God, my view morphed into the stern judge. A God who sat on the edge of his throne just WAITING to catch my slip-ups, and thunder down judgement. I suppose it was because of the guilt I felt by rejecting him at one point in my life.

Now, he is a daddy that loves me. Who protects and guides me. One who is slow to anger, and quick to forgive. Who bestows to me mercy and grace when I don't deserve it. The one to whom I can run to who will make it all better.

[Zadok Rox]

I don't remember how I viewed God as a child. However, for the longest time in my teen and adult years, I saw God the same way I saw my dad: emotionally distant until I messed up, as which point He rams his fist of judgement on me to make me pay. In my teen years, I've even visualized that God would be pleased with me if a pair of angels would literally beat the stubborness and disobediance out of me (note: my dad never physically beat me). Nowadays, I'm starting to get a more accurate view of Him, being merciful but still want me to live a life of rightousness (which He's helping me to do). He even wants to bless me and give me the desires of my heart (as long as they're in His will and timing).

I've heard that a child's first view of God is based on his/her dad. I pray that, when I become a dad, I would do my best to give my kids a good view of God.

[MorningGlory]

I thought God was a member of a God Club, with each God having his own world and responsibilities. Of course, ours was the head God. I was never taught this; I was just a strange little kid. Oh.....I know better now!

[kari21]

I thought God was a member of a God Club, with each God having his own world and responsibilities. Of course, ours was the head God. I was never taught this; I was just a strange little kid.

That is so cute!

If you would have told me that when I was a child, it would have made perfect sense to me!

[MorningGlory]

I thought God was a member of a God Club, with each God having his own world and responsibilities. Of course, ours was the head God. I was never taught this; I was just a strange little kid.

That is so cute!

If you would have told me that when I was a child, it would have made perfect sense to me!

[Jack Anderson]

Never really thought much about God as a kid. Maybe a couple times I would wonder what force or power was holding the stars up there in the sky.

After getting married, and attending church with my wife, I became a believer in Jesus as the Savior who was sent by God.

After accepting Jesus as my Savior and being born again, my understanding of God improved dramatically. Today He is my best Friend. He is my Protector, my Counselor, my Helper, my Lord and King, my Master who I call my Father, and sometimes Dad in private. It causes me to smile a lot calling Him Dad when talking with Him in private. In this life I live today, it just doesn't get any better knowing He has adopted me into His family....not until that day He comes for me and takes me home. What a glorious day that will be when I see Him face to Face. At that event He will even reveal to me how He kept those stars up there in the sky that I wondered about as a kid. (:<)

God bless,

Jack

Edited September 9, 2007 by Jack Anderson