Who does God think He is?

The frazzled bride doubted she’d make it through the wedding. Not because of cold feet or last minute regret, but because the rushed planning and the detailed demands of preparation had taken a heavy toll on her stamina. She was a nervous wreck. Confiding in her minister for advice, he suggested she focus on one thing at a time. “When you get ready to walk that aisle, look at the floor where you will place your next step. Focus on the aisle. Halfway down, look up to the altar. Once you reach the front of the church, look at your groom. Look at the aisle, then the altar, and then at your husband-to-be, look at him.” The bride was encouraged by that advice. As she walked the aisle, she reminded herself to focus on the aisle…the altar…then him. As she moved down the aisle, she left a wake of grins and quiet chuckles. The congregation could hear her whisper “I’ll…altar…him. I’ll…altar…him.”
The story causes us to smile a little, but it illustrates a problem many need to see. Each person’s perception of God is too often too personal. Everyone who believes in one God has a bad habit, in their own thinking, of making God easy to get along with. People who believe in Him tend to fashion Him into an agreeable deity.
The Christian church is described in Scripture as the Bride of Christ. Is it possible that this heavenly Bride thinks she may move closer to God by thinking, “I’ll altar Him?” The church is fractured into countless denominations. Some Christians would argue that God is Baptist, or Presbyterian, or Methodist.
A few weeks before last November’s election, Democrats and Republicans were literally arguing over who loved God more. Is God politically conservative of liberal?
It’s been said that Jews, Muslims and Christian’s worship the same God. So we must ask, is God Jewish? Is He Muslim? Is He Christian? We appear to be arguing among ourselves, just who does God think He is? While we argue, the atheists and skeptics watch and determine that the source to all our fighting is the common denominator…their solution is to throw out God.
We do not have a right to fashion God in our image. We have no right to altar God in order to affirm our self esteem. When we do that, we set ourselves as center of everything…we become gods. Even I need to repent of thinking of God as a Presbyterian, but then I’m faced with the challenge of finding out who God really is. And He does reward those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).

Jeremiah 9:23-24 Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. for in these I delight," says the LORD.