Chip Ingram writes: “Our distorted view of God is at the root of all of our problems.  We’ve created a god in our minds who only faintly resembles the God of Scripture.  These mental idols comfort our emotions, but they are powerless to deliver us from evil or transform our lives.  Left to ourselves, we tend to reduce God to manageable terms.  In other words, we shrink Him.  Faced with this awesome, all-knowing, all-powerful, holy God, the exposure makes us so uncomfortable that we turn on our mental compactors and shrink Him…we try to tame Him, or we seek to manage Him…we invent a new deity who will submit to our wishes…instead of falling down as servants before this awesome God, we try to get Him to be our servant so we can use Him for our purposes…we make Him accountable to us rather than humbly realizing we are completely accountable to Him.”