What Kind of God Is Worth It? (part 1)

I've been thinking about fellow monotheists of late--Jews, Muslims, Deists, maybe even Zoroastrians--and contemplating the always rehashed question, "We all worship the same God, right?"

No, we don't. We have a few options. We can worship the one true God. Or we can worship the God we construct out of our own fallible and fallen imaginations (which is what most people worship, knowingly or not). Or, worse yet, we can worship a being which attempts to dupe us into believing it is God. I would even argue we can worship some degree of each, but confuse them all for the same God. And of course we almost always declare we worship the one true God, even if we concede the former points.

Who really wants to be an idolater anyway? Who wants to believe their reckoning of God is incorrect, rendering them no better than those poor Canaanites who bowed be Dagon or Asherah? Didn't they get slaughtered for their paganism or something?

We are all guilty of private idolatries, even the most theologically astute and biblically-minded. We all fall short of the glory of God. If we are going to worship God, we need to know where our conceptions of God are coming from. This is step one in finding out what kind of God is worth it--what kind of God really should be getting our love, our devotion, our service, our submission, our pursuit of His program. Any monotheist should be willing to agree to that.