The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. – Micah 3:11, KJV

We must be wary lest we make an idol out of our Creator. Genesis teaches us that God made us in His image, but we act as if it’s the other way around. Like the judges, priests, and prophets of Micah Chapter 3, we do what we want when we want without regard for whether or not our actions are right or wrong in God’s sight. We break God’s law and God’s principles in order to fulfill our lusts and our pride, and then we expect God to bless our efforts because we’ve gone to church, done a good deed for someone, or worn a t-shirt with a Bible reference on it.

One of the greatest dangers we face is the danger of sinning nonchalantly, thinking that God won’t mind so much when we commit a “little” sin. We think He’s got bigger sins to deal with than the ones we commit, so we’re sure He’ll let us slide when we do something “small” that His Word clearly identifies as sin. Eventually, we may even convince ourselves that we’ve been misinterpreting the Bible for years, meaning that the sin we love to engage in isn’t really sin at all. So, happy day, we can keep on doing that which is wicked with a clear conscience!

A God who is disinterested in “little” sins is nowhere in the Bible. I can think of few sins more “little” than taking a disobedient bite of a piece of fruit. Yet that one “small” sin was enough to place all of Creation under a curse, and it was enough to condemn the Son of God to a horrible, humiliating death on a Roman cross so that we might escape that curse.

Don’t be tempted to shape God into your human image. Projecting your image onto God’s character in order to ease your conscience is akin to idol worship. Your job isn’t to create a God that lets you get away with as much as possible. Your job is to discover day by day what God is really like and what He wants YOU to be really like. Then, once you discover the holy image He wants to make you into, allow Him to mold you into that image. When you do, you will find heaven on Earth in your soul.

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