The Fallacy of Idolatry

Isaiah 44:9-20, ‘All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit him nothing? He and his kind will be put to shame; craftsmen are nothing but men. Let them come together and take their stand; they will be brought down in terror and infamy. The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint. The carpenter measures the line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in the form of a man, of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in shrine. He cuts down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the tress of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow. It is man’s fuel for burning; some of it he takes and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. Half of the wood he burns in the fire; over it he prepares his meal, he roasts his meat and eats his fill. He also warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.” From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says, “Save me; you are my god.” They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so that they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand. No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, “Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?’ We have many forms of idol worship today, man made things, that are here today and gone tomorrow, which we worship as our gods, giving glory to them and living in obedience to them. God is a supreme being, but how can you place something that is worthless and meaningless in His place, something or someone that cannot even save itself/ himself. In deed our eyes have been blinded and our minds closed because we cannot see the fallacy in this: placing our hope in dead things, or people that are in the same boat as us, who are like grass, here today, withered and gone tomorrow. Wake up! Yes, wake up! Stop living in delusion and recognize who you are worshipping in the idols. Have a reverent fear of the Lord and give all glory to Him.