We ought to have far more fear of God than we do of someone’s concept of God.

Recently, I just starting noticing (it’s been happening since…let’s see…creation?!) the number of concepts people communicate about God. On a weather site, the following comment was published:

If any GOD had any pull on weather [conditions] , We’d have beautiful days forever.

How common is this kind of statement? I’m reminded of Job’s friends who all thought they knew God. I’m reminded of the false prophets from Jeremiah’s day who were ousted by God in His revelation to Jeremiah. I’m reminded of…well…pretty much everyone, including myself, who has ever looked to an “image” of God, either molten or mental, as J. I. Packer says, thereby reducing His glory.

“I also withheld rain from you
when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
but withheld it from another.
One field had rain;
another had none and dried up.
People staggered from town to town for water
but did not get enough to drink,
yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord. – Amos 4

Let us take care that we do not reduce God with statements like “No God would…” or “God wouldn’t” or [ad infinitum].

We ought to have far more fear of God than we do of someone’s concept of God.