“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes speechless idols!
Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and there is no breath at all in it.
But the LORD is in his holy temple;
let all the earth keep silence before him.”
We don’t make idols today like they made them in Habakkuk’s day. Or, do we? Do we ever worship any thing made by man’s hands? We might not physically bow down to the things this earth produces, but we do worship them, never-the-less. God has given us a warning in the above passage. In Habakkuk’s day the nation of Israel had joined the nations around them in serving and worshiping idols made with hands. That is no different than today. It might look different as we don’t see people bow down in front a human form made out of wood. But, we do see people give their full attention and praise and time and resources to fiberglass, chrome, siding, lawn furniture, etc. We need to recognize that God sees anything that takes us away from praising Him, as an idol in our lives. That can be things. That can be a person. That can be our children. Whatever we worship and praise can become an idol in our lives. It might not look like the idols of Habakkuk’s day, but they are idols.
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