False Versions of God

  

Idolatrous behaviour

Is even in the church

And I dare say, my brother, my sister,

It’s on a growth spurt.

 

By leaps and bounds

It is growing daily

As false versions of God, the Father

Satisfy the greedy.

 

A God of convenience

Is a false version of God

No different from the sun and stars

On which pagans call.

 

Presented as a God

Who will meet our needs

Without acknowledging our sin

Or unrighteous deeds.

 

A God who does miracles

Every time we call

Especially for the specially anointed

To show off to all.

 

Worship that is directed

To this kind of God

Is just plain downright idolatrous

And not worship at all.

 

All of these such gods

Are false versions of God

And to worship or acknowledge such

Is to invite the fall.

 

 

 

God is not our genie

Acquiescing to our whims,

No, He is the God that passed judgment

On our sins.

 

But having done this,

He placed them on his Son

Who became the scapegoat as it were

And a great victory won.

 

  Victory over sin

And triumph over death

And His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Is become our rest.

 

Rest for all those

Who put trust in him

Not to satisfy their insatiable greed

But to cleanse from sin.

 

 

 

Prayer meetings now are

A constant grocery-list

Which we take to God’s storehouse

And ask Him to assist.

 

Oblivious to the fact

Of His everyday supplies

And that it is He that wakes us up

To see the sun rise.

 

He gives us all things

But we must ask for more

For after all, all we need in this life,

He is the door. 

 

And so, we worship Him

For what He gives to us

Meaning His daily treats and gifts

And not Jesus.

 

 

 

This is false worship

To a false version of God

And like the pagans we are no better

In our idolatrous fall.

 

Stewart Russell © March 5, 2026