Psalms 135:15-18
The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
They have mouths, but do not speak;
they have eyes, but do not see;
they have ears, but do not hear,
nor is there any breath in their mouths.
Those who make them become like them,
so do all who trust in them.
Tag: Our Idols Can’t Talk
This same thought of the writer of this Psalms is also found in Jeremiah 10:4, 5
Jeremiah 10:4-5
They decorate it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
The fact that a person would make an “idol” (as described above) and worship it is odd from a Western Culture point of view. We simply don’t put “things” up to worship them. Or, do we. We have cars that are shinny. Do we worship them? We have homes. Do we fix them to make them worshipful? We have “toys” that we “collect” and we “accumulate.” Do we worship them? The answer is yes. But, these things do NOT talk back to us. They only distract us. They pull us away from the ONE who CAN and DOES talk to us. When you worship something with “one-way” communication, we don’t have a real “relationship.” God gives us a “real” relationship. We can rejoice that God wants to have a relationship with us and wants to talk to us. He demands our worship, but He also responds to our worship. He interacts with us via the Spirit of God and the Word of God. Our “idols” look a lot different than those in Biblical times. We almost laugh at what they did. But, note that our cars, homes, jobs, toys:
1. They don’t speak
2. They don’t see
3. They don’t hear
4. They don’t breath
We have a God that does speak, see, hear and breath. We can have that relationship with Him. He deserves our worship, not what we make our idols.
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