God is bigger than...
Have you ever been frustrated that while you love God with all of your heart you still have many areas that have not been fully turned over to God? Maybe you devote yourself to living as one of God's people, but you find many areas of your life that do not look very
godly at all. I am amazed at the work that some scholars and theologians will spend to make theology have something to say to every specific area of human life. It is as if many Christians feel that before the scriptures have anything to say to another field, the fields must come together at a shared place and stand on common ground. Many times it seems that there are so many steps required find that common ground that you are left wondering whether scripture has anything to say to those areas of life.
I have seen this to be the case in reading many people's work of trying to integrate the fields of psychology and theology. In the end, I do not know that theology is ever going to have a great deal to say about p values or about the importance of confidence intervals in psychological research. Likewise, I do not suppose that the most well defined psychological principles will ever shed much light on proper exegesis or on the doctrine of trans-substantiation. Both however, have a great deal to learn from the God who is in control.
God is big enough and capable enough to work in all of the areas of our lives. God is a God of community and integration. Perhaps we find ourselves in lives of segregation because we operate with a limited theology instead of a limited God. Let us take comfort in this; even when our theology is not big enough to deal with life around us, God is.
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