Week 8 Psalm 50
Near the end of the psalm the Lord says: you thought that I was just like you. I was thinking today that if I had the ability to make it happen I’d be tempted to make God just like me.
I guess it’s possible I’d make him like someone else. Or maybe a mash-up of several Top Quality People. But I suspect that if it was my choice he’d have a lot of Joe-like qualities.
Because if he was just like me we’d always be on the same page
He’d do things that were consistent with my preferences
Most of the time we’d just naturally agree and when we didn’t we’d be able to reach a consensus pretty readily
I’d probably feel a higher degree of personal liberty if he was like me
He’d be friendly conciliatory affable respectful obliging cooperative altruistic attentive responsive
He’d be a fairly Albertan-style god
There’d have to be some modifications to Bible God – for example his justice couldn’t be so absolute & decisive (in Canada an impartial judiciary is kind of negotiable)
Less demanding & strident. Less certain. Less awesome. Less rigorous. His absolutes would need some paring down. He’d not do objectionable stuff. He’d need to see eye-to-eye with me. There’d have to be an uptick in his flexibility. He’d have to be more like one-of-the-boys.
I’m tempted to think that life would be more manageable if God was just like me.
Note: quote from Psalm 5o:21 (NASB)