"Want Creators"

June 20, 2014

Isaiah 41:15-29

Gratefulness seems lost in our culture, a society built on self, and instant gratification; not on faith or family, but on what I call a culture constructed on “want creators.”   “Want creators” make us dissatisfied with what we have, they lie about our worth, and we allow them full access to our family, and especially our children who have no understanding that they are being conned.  I learned first and foremost as a sales person that it was impossible to sell someone who was content and happy with the present item you were trying to replace.  So as a sales person you need to develop a technique which will either put some fear of this older technology, or draw a picture in the buyer’s mind of being seen by their peers as a person who is on the forefront of technology, and the perks an acclaim of being a trendsetter.

But it is so much easier with children, for the businessman will look at cost to benefits, but the children only see a new toy or clothing that the man on television tells them will make then happy, successful, or make them popular, and the hook is set.  When it comes to adults and men it may be Golfsmith, or Cabala’s, or Dick’s or Gulf Pro, and when it comes to the ladies, it’s a mall, or a kitchen store, these are “want creators.”  Have you ever gone house hunting, say at a parade of homes, did you come away with some dissatisfaction of your present home, were you grateful for your home, did you acknowledge the many blessings God has given you?  Were you thankful, perhaps not, and why the “want creator” grabbed your heart, it is closely kin to the thief in John 10:10?

So we find our heavenly Father, who knows our thoughts, is telling the people of Judah and Israel to look to Him, and be sure He and He only is our source and He cares for each of us.  We, as those we are reading about, have a tendency to run to these little idols, for we have allowed Channel One the deceptive channel to tell us happiness can be found in stuff, in others, in status, but look what our Creator Jesus Christ has stated in John 10:10. 

Jacob’s King is God, and in verse 21 He is challenging the nations and their idols.   

These idols had no understanding of the future, but the people of Judah had a history 

of what God had done for them and those who put faith in them.  We understand from 

history God had raised up King Cyrus of Persia to come against the Babylonians, and 

it was not by his might but Cyrus was a tool being used by God to bring his people out 

of judgment.  The many false gods we look to for happiness are a delusion, and if 

only we would look and learn from Isaiah 41:28-29, “But when I look, there is no one; 

among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.  Behold, they are 

all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.”   

(Isaiah 41:28-29)  The false gods we put our hope in are nonexistent, so how can they 

give advice?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice