If you have your Bible, open it up to Luke chapter 15.

We're going to read some very familiar verses, but from a different slant.

You ever notice how we as Christians try to explain God?

Out of our limited knowledge and experience,

we try to give an explanation of what God will do,

what God won't do, and what God may do and what God may do.

And if we can't come out, if you have more questions,

then we have answers, then we just say he's sovereign.

And you're going to need to remember that

because people are going to ask you questions about God and you're going to say,

well I think he acts this way, he does this way, then you're going to have to say, you know, he's just sovereign.

And he is, I'm not making fun of that. I'm trying to explain to you that sometimes we use that because we don't know how to explain God.

We try with all of our limited knowledge and experience the best we can to tell people what God's like.

Even children do this.

We have any grandmothers in the crowd?

I bet you have some stories about grandchildren telling you some stuff, don't you?

Listen to this grandmother's story about her grandson.

My grandson was visiting one day and he asked Grandma,

do you know how you and God are alike?

Grandma said she mentally started polishing her halo a little bit.

No, how are we alike? The grandson replied, you're both old.

I don't know, is God old?

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