“Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.” Romans 1:22-23

Blaise Pascal said, “God made man in his image ... and man returned the favor.” Such a created god is impossible to please.  Try as hard as you can, and you are never good enough, someone is always better; you can never be smart enough, someone is always smarter; you can never be pretty enough, someone will always be prettier; you can never give enough, someone will always give more.  Do all you can and you still come up short.  So in order to compensate for our self-determined shortcomings we begin to make rules to set us apart; to make us special…then we link God to these rules.  The result is that we have a god that is known for what he is against, rather than what he is for.

While God’s holiness is beyond question, the Easter season must remind us that “…God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”  He did this with full knowledge of our sin, our conditions, our shortcomings, all of our fears, and anxieties.  Such a God is easily pleased, is very proud of those who call him Father, and the best news of all, he himself has made us good enough.