God made man in His own image. The travesty is man trying to make God in his own image! Moses was on the mount with God receiving the law. The children of Israel thought that he was taking too long;  so they decided to make a god for themselves. “And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!” Exodus‬ 32‬:4‬ NKJV‬‬. The god they made was according to the imagination of their heart. When we begin to see God after the imagination of man, idolatry is already underway.

God made man in His own image. The travesty is man trying to make God in his own image! …When we begin to see God after the imagination of man, idolatry is already underway.

Today, the idea of idolatry may sound repugnant to the ears, but this does not mean that the sin is out of fashion. People have only found new ways of expressing old sins. In general, whatever is taking the place of God in our lives has already qualified as an idol. It could be money, position, or pleasure. There is a more subtle danger than the conventional practice of idolatry – the tendency to misconstrue the God of the Bible.  John C. Ryle warned, “Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for everybody, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and bad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.”