Frequently, the discovery of our spiritual nature is so exciting that we neglect the importance of filling the God void properly. We fail to recognize that the spiritual hole in our lives is a Judeo-Christian God shaped hole that can only be adequately filled by Him. Most people, however, spend most of their lives trying to pound square shaped gods into the circular God shaped hole at the center of their soul. Frustrated by their inability to fit in the God they want, they give up and settle for hearing their own voice echo back from the cavernous depths below. Deaf to God’s spoken Word they fill the silence with the banging of their own spiritual gong.

A power struggle ensues when we empty the heavenly throne room of its rightful King. People just like you and I clamor for a spot on the divine seat. We engage in a cosmic game of musical chairs, circling the one remaining divine seat, waiting for the heavenly chorus to stop so that we can try and take “our rightful place” on the throne. We cringe, however, at the violent struggle that ensues once the music ends. The annals of history are replete with the tragic tales of humans trying to fill the God void by making themselves divine. We need to seriously heed the warning of the Peter Principle, which suggests that we rise to our level of incompetence; a sober warning for anyone seeking to create God in his or her own image.

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. (Romans 1: 21-23)