DARE TO DESTROY THE GOD YOU CREATED

Have you taken a good look at your idol shelf recently?
You don’t have one?
Check again!
“Each one of us has created in our own minds an image of God.” (Dare to Walk on Water: Treasuring God). Psalm 50:21 says “You thought that I was just like you.”
Look at your idol shelf and dare to destroy the God you have created in your own mind.
GOD IN YOUR OWN IMAGE
When the Psalmist says that we thought God was just like us he is telling us that we have endowed Him with human attributes. But God is not just like us. He is a totally Other Being whom our minds will never completely comprehend. He shares none of our limitations and none of our failings.
GOD IN YOUR FATHER’S IMAGE
You have a wonderful father. That is great. But he is not perfect like God. He is not wise like God. He is not infinite like God.
You have a terrible father. That is tragic. But God is not like him. God is loving, merciful, compassionate and just.
GOD IN AMERICA’S IMAGE
It has been said that the discovery of the Americas was driven by a search for God rather than gold. But gold has long replaced God as the goal of life in modern America. God is not Fort Knox, providing prosperity for His devotees. He is holy, transforming sinful weaklings into spiritual giants. He wants us to lay up treasure in heaven.
GOD IN HOLLYWOOD’S IMAGE
God is not Superman, Santa Claus or “the man upstairs.” He is not one of a panoply of X-men. God is infinite, unique, transcendent and sovereign. The creative minds of Hollywood writers will never begin to imagine the glory of even a glimpse of the Almighty.
A created God is a controlled God. As long as we can decide what He is like we can get Him to do what we want. The Bible reveals a Creator God who sovereignly controls everything. When we learn to treasure that God, we will do what He wants.
“DARE to see God as He reveals Himself in the Word of God. Destroy the image of God you have created in your own mind with all human limitations and failings. Allow yourself to discover a God who is totally Other.” (Dare to Walk on Water: Treasuring God).
Take the DARE! Read Dare to Walk on Water: Treasuring God. Available now from Amazon.com.

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