What are some of the ways that we try to make God into our image? I think what our image of God is - what we visualize God looking like, says more about us then God. We have not seen God, so we let our imaginations run wild - and how often does that mean God ends up looking like someone from our family tree? Someone who is like us.
Once we have God looking like us, its not to long until God starts to like the things we like and hate the things we hate. Agree with us about people - like who we like, don't like who we don't like. Not too long after that we no longer let God be God.
And we have a problem.
For if we have morphed God, even unknowingly, into our image and if we don't let God be God, then we are missing out on the greatness of God, some of which we know and some of which we can never fathom. We miss the majesty of the Creator. The gift of the Sustainer. The love of the Redeemer.
What would happen if we let God be God? What would it look like to stop making God into our image but to embrace, fully, that we are made in the image of our God?
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