Most Sundays we recite a version of the creed and, like so much other liturgy, we don’t always engage with what it’s saying.
So Lent this year is a chance to go deeper. At least one of the creeds was written as a result of Christians in the first few centuries arguing over what was true and what wasn’t about God – and once they’d decided, they pinned it down (sounds so simple but it took a few decades!).
Sounds very neat but much of what Rowan Williams in his book ‘Tokens of Trust’ is saying is that’s exactly what you can’t do with God – pin him down. Try to describe someone you know really well – their personality, what makes them tick…you can have a stab at it, but because they’re a living and growing being, you will never quite manage it.
God is a living and growing being too so, as we study some of these words, we must remember they’re only a shadow of what an amazing God he is and how much he loves each one of us.