In the “Seed Book” of the Bible we’re told, “So God created man in his own image.” But in today’s culture we’ve made it to read, “So man created God in his own image.” This is not something new to our age. Way back in the Old Testament God indicts the wicked by saying, “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.” In spite of being told we are not to make an image of God, we create a mental one.
Invariably, we bring God down to our level. By doing this, we tell ourselves we see everything “eye to eye.” It is easy to fashion God after our natural temperament. For example, to some He is syrupy; others have made Him rigid. We constantly fall into the trap of imagining God responds and reacts as we do. But, says the Lord, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.”
Once we have created God in our own image, we become the creator, and He our creation. Thus, He becomes subservient to the likes of us. We need to follow Elijah’s admonition to “Let [God] be God.” After all, the only things you and I ever created were messes that He had to clean up in the end!
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