Is God An Idolator?

I thought about calling this "the most important person to God." I was thinking about this on the drive home from work yesterday morning, and it hits me that people don't ever talk about who the most important person to God is. What I have heard all my life are songs that say things like, "When he (Jesus) was on the cross, I was on his mind," or more contemporary tunes that charm us like, "Like a rose, trampled on the ground/He took the fall, and thought of me/Above All." When I would here people pleading with people to become Christians, I heard the moving statements like, "If you were the only one lost in the whole world, Jesus would have died just for you." All these statements, as innocent though they seem to be, are indicative of the American feel-good gospel that makes us "special" and "deserving" while God is indebted and obligated to us. Should it not be said that "God shall have no other gods before him?" Because God is God, he must be centered on himself, lest he be an idolator. This strikes right at the root of our man-centered gospel today. We think that we are the most important person to God, that because we know he loves us, we therefore, must be what God worships, right? Yet this logic and portrayal is foreign to Scripture. When God delivers, rescues, saves, or redeems (however you put it), he does so for his name's sake. First and foremost, in all God's actions and affinities, he is utmostly and ultimately concerned about his name, his glory, his testimony. "My glory I will not give to another" reverberates throughout the pages of Scripture. To attempt to list all the phrases of God's preeminent commitment to himself would be to keep you scrolling down this page with a worn out index finger. Some may think, "If God is wrapped up in himself, is he not a megalomaniac? How could this God who is so God-centered be loving?" Well, let me ask: "If God were to love anything/one more than himself, would he not be committing idolatry? Is it not most loving to give us what is best for us?" And clearly what is best for us is God himself. He is the gospel. For God to give us less, to be centered on anything else but himself, would be idolatrous to himself and unloving to us. God is for us, but supremely he is for himself. And if we are to be like him, we must be God-centered in our thinking, in our theology, in our practice, lest we find ourselves singing our praises to ourselves of how great we are. Admittedly, this is very counter-cultural, even counter-spiritual for believers today to do, for we think we derive our worth or significance by thinking that we must be man-centered in our Christianity. Why do you think the overwhelming majority of praise and worship songs are littered with phrases of "I will . . ." or "I am . . ." and so on? We start with us and not with God. We speak of what we will do, not what God has done. Our reference point is us, not with God, and then we assume that God must be like us - always thinking about us. Yet, the God of the Bible is not an idolator. He will not have any gods before himself. He is God and God alone, and our rightful place is in glad surrender and unmitigated humility in his presence. Clearly, the most important person to God is God himself. If it were any different, we would neither know love nor have gospel, and God would be found contradicting his nature of Godhood and would be charged with idolatry in the most grave sense.