Incorruptible God. Romans 1:23 What an unspeakable insult it is to the eternal God for frail mortal men to reject the knowledge of Him. He who has existed forever and has the glory and majesty of an eternal, perfect, self-existing God has been given the even greater insult of being construed to be like the creatures He made with the power of His word. The Greeks made their deities to be in human form. The Egyptians made Him out to be in the form of beasts. From a human form to birds, then to four-footed animals, then reptiles - the darkened minds of men denigrated the Person of the Almighty God.
It is hard to imagine such grace that in spite of the terrible arrogance of men, God our Savior will "have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth." For people to carve a piece of wood into a form and bow to worship it, or form a calf out of gold and claim it to be their god, is an insulting rejection of the evidence of the Living God we can see wherever we look.
When we take time to meditate on God's glory, infinite power, and majesty, it makes the idolatry so much more a repulsive insult of epic proportions to the Almighty God. May God give those who know Him and love Him the determination and courage to stand up against the incredible foolishness of those who seek to teach that God is no more than a corruptible creature of their own imaginations. One of a past generation wrote, “It was the greatest honor God did to man that He made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.”