My God's name is Bob

Every now and again we run into someone who say "My God is the True God" "My Truth is the only Truth" and so on.  Usually at that point we will get very defensive but is that what God wants us to do?  Does God want us to go around and tell everyone that "Your Wrong and I'm Right"?  Well let me tell you about my god and his truth.  My God's name is Bob, say hi Bob.  Bob is a all knowingly, all loving god.  Bob doesn't want you to go out and kill people, he doesn't want you to sleep with your neighbors wife or to steal.  Here is the best part, Bob knows you will make mistakes in your life.  Some big and some small.  Now don't get upset at me and Bob for being different for he is God, he is our king and he is the father of our lord Christ.  You see as Christians it is our duty to take his teachings and spread it across this world to those who are in need. It is our duty to extend our hand of love and kindness to those with heavy hearts and souls.  But does your method the best method?  No it isn't, neither is mine nor theirs.  Everyone learns differently and God knows this, so why would God appear to just one person and say "Hey this is it, you can't figure it out then your going to hell!!"  That isn't the fact, I once heard a story from a pastor while I was in the service and he told me of a guy who believed that God was a cockroach.  As hard as it was not to laugh it was hard to believe that this man of God would allow such a thing to continue.  But he told me that this guy had several problems in his life but the one thing that was constant was this cockroach that would come out everyday at 3pm.  This guy saw this as a sign to keep fighting his demons and not to give up.  Now this cockroach slowly brought him to Christ but still today he believes with all his heart that God came to him as a cockroach.  Do you have a cockroach I ask?  I know I do....  Through out history there has been so many names that has taught people the laws of the scripture but we tend to throw away it all because it doesn't fit with our way of thinking.  C.S. Lewis wrote in his children s book that Aslan was the all powerful God and he says "Children here you know me as Aslan but in your world I am known by other names."  In the Bible the name of God has had his name changed many times also.  So is it hard to believe that God may come to me by Bob and to you as Jesus?  Remember next time when you are out in the world ready to bring in the flock that sometime new math isn't always better than old math and no one likes being told that their wrong but instead inform them that what their going through in their life is one of the many stepping stones toward Christ and the teachings to a warm and loving life.