OUR OWN GOD

Anne Lamott writes, “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” In the very beginning, God gave Moses this as a first instruction, “You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image…any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.”

“I think people often break up with God because they have been badly taught… they have been victims of heresy. Most of the heresy I encounter is well meaning. People want to present an image of God that is attractive (that is, it appeals to us on our own terms), is simple (that is, makes sense to us based on our experience), and is comforting (that is, offers us the promise of what we desire). But God’s identity, character, and nature are not rooted in what we want, but in who God actually is. What we want God to be probably reveals more about our identity than it does about God’s. Heresy is mostly our moderately sophisticated attempt to create the God we want.” John C. Hartnett, Australian physicist.

“You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.” Jesus