"Little children, keep yourselves from idols." (1 John 5:21) "Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry." (1 Cor. 10:14)

Years ago, men took pieces of wood or metal and carved or fashioned them into gods. They literally fashioned gods to meet their own fancy.

Today, men in their own minds shape and fashion the true God into the god they prefer. They mentally chisel and carve away His wrath and severity making Him a god of love only. They mold and shape Him into a god that accepts the very things He once rejected.

Thus, modern men in their own minds have fashioned their own god, and are no less guilty of idolatry than the people of long ago. Let us flee from all gods of our own devising.