To gain the better perspective - God's perspective

“There are three images in my mind which I must continually forsake and replace by better ones: the false image of God, the false image of my neighbours, and the false image of myself.” C. S. Lewis, 30 December, 1952 (from an unwritten chapter on Iconoclasm).

When in the Ten Commandments we are discouraged from making images we are prohibited from making graven images, i.e. idols. But what is a false image of God other than making Him into an image of something we can manipulate, a God of our own choosing and making? What is a false image of our neighbor other than something we can justifiably (at least in our own minds) either inordinately adore or abhor? What is a false image of ourselves other than what I have just said about the neighbor?

II Chronicles 16:11

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Where do we find this better image of God, this presence of the Almighty? We find the better image which He Himself provides for us In His Word and in His House. In that Word we also find the better image of our neighbor, whom God would redeem to Himself. There, too, we find the better, more accurate image of ourselves: sinners deeply in need of God’s forgiveness – sinners deeply loved and forgiven by God for the sake of Christ Jesus.