Imagine you decide to write your memoirs so that there could never be any confusion about who you are and what you’ve done. And then let’s say that instead of reading what you’ve written about yourself, people who want to learn more about you choose to talk to other people who have never even met you. And since nobody knows what they’re talking about, all kinds of misinformation is being spread about you.
Wouldn’t you get annoyed? Wouldn’t you just want to say, “Read my book if you want to know the truth about me!”
Years ago most of us learned that “God created man in His own image (Genesis 1:27a), but today I see a different trend. I see that we want to create God in our image, to make Him be how we think He should be according to our own personal agenda.
Forsaking God’s Word, the Bible, we are depending on our own feelings and ideas of what God should be like to define who He is and to explain how He operates in the world today. Many people don’t even bother to give the topic enough consideration to form their own ideas. They just adopt what they’ve heard someone else say – maybe in a song, maybe on Oprah. Who knows?
Some people, without having done any research on the topic, say they don’t trust that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. Therefore, they don’t go to His Word to learn about Him. At this point everything becomes subjective. You just choose to believe what you want to believe about God – whatever makes you happy. …
It’s kind of a mess, really.
God wants us to know Him. In Jeremiah 31:3 He proclaims, “I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God. …”
Don’t take someone else’s word for it; go straight to the source and let Him tell you all about Himself. After all, that’s why He gave us the Book!
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