Making God in Our Own Image

Again, I have been thinking about what it means that we are created in the image of God, and it occurs to me that what self-centered men and women do is to turn it around and make God into their image. They imagine God to be someone who fits their idea, meets their ideal, and fulfills their dreams and ambitions. The “heathens” do this with their gods, but perhaps it never occurred to us we can be guilty of this too. And when God doesn’t meet our “ideal,” we get angry with Him, or at least, disappointed. Instead of taking the time to really know God and understand His ways, in our disillusionment, we distance ourselves.

It seems to me that too few believers have a passion to know God for Himself. Not only do they want to be “like” God, they want God to be “like” them! And worse, they want a god who exists only to serve their interests. It’s all about what God can do for them—not what God purposes to do with them, not about Who He is. And the real beauty is this: God wants to be known!

Better than accomplishing your goals, achieving your dreams, and feeling good about yourelf is the knowlede of God.

Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD...for I delight in these things," declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:24)