“There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone,
which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.”
which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.”
Deuteronomy 4:28 (NIV)
I hear echoes of the ancient idol makers in the words I hear people speak in Ontario in 2018 as they tell us they can never believe anything they can’t see. They imagine that they are so progressive and so far advanced from their ancient ancestors, for they are scientific, and are not as gullible as our uneducated ancestors. Yet the truth is that they and their ancestors are exactly the same when it comes to needing sight before believing. The Only True God is Spirit, He is invisible, He has no form, and true worship of our Creator demands that we believe before seeing. Instead, we make things we can see and form belief systems around what we observe completely missing the God who made it all. We can observe His creation, and we can observe His outstretched arm of power, and we can observe His Word, but we can only worship Him thru faith. God’s people scoff at the “pagans” who make idols but this chapter is a warning to God’s people, not to the “heathen”, and we should search our own lives and own households, ensuring that we have not fallen into worshipping gods made by my own hands. Whom do we trust? Whom do we depend on? Who’s Word do we obey? Whom do we worship? To whom do we pray? For surely no one else has “their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him”
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