"Our idea of God tells us more about
ourselves than about Him.”
Thomas Merton
Alongside that is Calvinist pastor and psychoanalyst Oscar Pfister’s observation:
“Tell me what you find in your Bible, and I will tell you what sort of person you are.”
While I don't think those observations are literally true every step of the way, they contain a lot of truth. Often we ask what God is like, but we shouldn’t neglect to ask what we are like when we look at Him. Is our conception of God sometimes less the God who is, and more the God we think we need, or the God we want Him to be? We must allow God to shape our image of Him, and be careful that it’s not our wishful image of Him shaping us.
Just a few thoughts for us all to be mindful of.
