R.C. Sproul once said
…the kind of idolatry that pervades the church today is that idolatry where we take the biblical revelation of God and we look at those attributes of God that we find distasteful, such as His sovereignty, His holiness, His justice, His wrath, and we say, “Oh, we don’t like those; we like the love of God, the mercy of God, the grace of God,” and we construct a God who is all love, all grace, all mercy; no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, no wrath. And we create a God with our own minds who is not God. That God is an idol.
The antidote to creating a God with our own minds is to be well acquainted with the True God, with all that He had said about Himself. In other words, to believe in the whole counsel of God.
My pastor has been preaching through the book of Amos. I doubt I will ever call it my favorite book of the Bible, but man has it been convicting. Today was Amos 5:18-27
18 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD!
Why would you have the day of the LORD?It is darkness, and not light,
19 as if a man fled from a lion,
and a bear met him,or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,
and a serpent bit him.20 Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light,
and gloom with no brightness in it?21 “I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
I will not look upon them.23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to the melody of your harps I will not listen.24 But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves, 27 and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts
Those are hard words. But, as it has been said, hard words create soft hearts Jer. 23:29
Edited to Add: I’m not sure why the formatting is strange in the passage from Amos copied and pasted. I did not intend for the italics, and I cannot seem to change it.