What If Your God Always Agrees With You?
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**What if the version of God we prefer is simply the version we can control?** **Isaiah 46 asks us a searching question: are we letting God reshape us, or quietly reshaping him around us?** In today’s 5-minute Christian devotional, we explore Isaiah 46:5–7 and the strange picture of people who make their own gods — and then have to carry them. We may not worship statues, but we can still create a version of God who fits comfortably around our plans, habits and ambitions. The living G...
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