shall be shaped like

This story reminds me that one of the great sins of the modern world is how it reverses one of the great truths of the Bible. Gen1:27 tells us that man is made in the image of God. And yet everywhere you look, you find man fitting God into an image he can swallow.

Don't like a just God that condemns sin? Focus on an ever-loving God that tolerates evil. Don't like that God of compassion? Pursue righteousness down the line of legalism. Don't like what the Word says in Paul's letters? Make up crazy nonsense like contextualism and accept only the parts of Scripture that interest you.

We will find ourselves before the throne one day, every one of us, and the first thing we will notice after our eyes adjust to that blinding light is how He looks so different, so very very different from the papier mache deities we have erected.