When Theology is too Small

  God is big. He created the universe and it keeps spinning because of His care. Nothing surprises Him because He knows all things. He is infinite. Before the world began He was and He will continue on after life as we know it ends.
  We as men are finite: the tiniest microbes in the space of the universe. So much is beyond our grasp, there are many things we cannot begin to understand. As humans, that can scare us; the fact that we cannot understand everything, the feeling we are finite, the knowledge we really and truly have no control. Though this world is not everlasting, there are things God has created that give us an idea of what infinite is like. Anyone who has climbed mountains or bobbed around in the ocean or stared up at a sky full of stars knows what it is like to feel small.
 We want to understand the things that are too big for us though. We explore the land and the sea and space. We study what we can about these things, and they just keep getting bigger. God is like that to an infinite degree. We can read the Bible and seek Him through prayer, but the more we learn about God, the less we know. Studying about God, studying theology, is a good thing; but it is  easy to get bogged down in trying to learn theological concepts and forget about God. In trying to learn about Him, we can forget to try and know Him, we lose sight of the fact that God is personal. As Christians He is to be our purpose and our passion, not theology.
  Many times, theology pushes us away from God instead of towards Him. Facts are small, they are easy. God is huge and we cannot begin to understand him. There is a lot of mystery around God. He too big for science and human intellect. We have to come humbly to Him with the faith of child, not with the brains of a professor.
  We as Christians are called to love God with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves. We have been given the commission to go into the world and make disciples for Christ. God did not tell us that Calvinism is the way, the truth and the life and no man may come to Him unless they believe in the five points. Christians are not called to bicker over theology (and there are times when I would say the word bicker is an understatement). Believers are called to love one another, regardless of our differences. Yes, we need to learn theology, but we also need to be invested in the gospel first. We cannot have theological squabbles at the cost of the truth.