It has been said, and often that we create our own god when deciding that our god will represent all that we expect our god to be, when relating to the image that we create of he, she, or it there being an awareness on the part of the "creator" that their god is made to measure up to their expectations.

Mr. Polly considered his construction of god to be a limitless being having the nature of a schoolmaster making infinite rules, rules that were always ruthlessly enforced with an infinite capacity for punishment.

The Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien influenced C.S. Lewis to return to Christianity during one long all-night walk that ended in dawn and revelation. Lewis preferred to seek out the God of his childhood years that had led him to believe that all human beings needed saving from their/our easy willingness to create a god in our own likeness.

C. S. Lewis reminds us through his books, and commentaries that ones perception is never the result of facing the reality that is God, there being an understanding that the divine revelation in human life is always inviting us to sacrifice our own desires, to serve His outreach into the lives of every human person seeking God in their desperate attempts to make sense of the trials, and tribulations that beset every human person.

Not our perception, but His will be done, in our life that we may reflect His image.

God loves us not because we are loveable but because He is love. And because He is love, He can only will what is best for us, which is to be transformed into a being of holy love like Himself. He will settle for nothing less. As we meditate on God’s love for us, especially in the cross of Christ, our love for God and our neighbour will increase, and our hearts will become more and more like God’s — filled with love.
~ C. S. Lewis


end