Idols of our culture

Jeremiah 10:6-16

As one begins to look into verses 6-16 what a contrast to the customs and cultures of this world and its idols, and yet most would tell us the closest they come to idols is a T.V. show with that name.  God refers to them in chapter 10 and verses 3 and 5 as worthless and scarecrows, for they have no ability, no power to speak or walk, and they can do harm or have the capacity to do good. 

What about the worthless idol the culture calls “climate change” how mankind is going to kill the planet earth, the ice caps are melting and the earth as we know it will be covered in water?  What a contrast that idol is to what the Scripture tells us in Proverbs 8:22-31, “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.  Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.  When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.  Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.  When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limits, so that the waters might not transgress his

command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.”

It seems so easy to choose whom you will believe, the Creator or His creations, but as history proclaims men have been foolishly choosing the scarecrows that cannot move or speak over the God of Proverbs 8.

But listen to the prophet Jeremiah; “There is none like you, O Lord; you are great, and your name is great in might.  Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?  For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.”  Now the rest of the story, the contrast between the wise and the foolish and the choice between blessing and curses:
“They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!  Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple;
they are all the work of skilled men.  But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King.  At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice