Is God Round or Flat?

Yesterday I read an online devotional from Ravi Zacharias Ministries. The author, Betsy Childs, said that literary characters are differentiated into two categories: round or flat. Round characters are multidimensional in that "he or she is believably lifelike, able to surprise the reader, and his or her character is fully fleshed out by the author." As you might guess, a flat character is . . . . well . . . flat. Childs helped me put words to something I have been feeling for a while. I think we are prone to perceive God as flat so we bring flat, dutiful devotion where passion is absent and no real mental, emotional, or spiritual energy is required to relate to him. Just do the right thing, choose to obey, think truth and all will be well.

I have felt myself desperate for more than that lately. I need to be reminded that God is mysterious and multi-dimensional and surprising and passionate and amazing. Otherwise God begins to seem small and my faith shrivels accordingly. After a lengthy description of God's creator/sustainer power Job 26:14 says, "And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?" Yes! This is the God I love and worship and live for. And He is not flat.

By the way, I would recommend the Ravi Zacharias daily devotions to you. They are called Slice of Infinity and you can receive them daiy via email or you can just go to the website on occasion and read the archives. I especially connect with the ones written by Jill Carratini.
http://www.rzim.org/publications/slice.php