Isaiah - Verse By Verse

Scripture:  Isaiah 2:9 (NIV):  "Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made."

Thought:  To me, paying obesiance to man-made objects is very prevalent in our world.  Idolatry is a pertinent issue today.

Question:  Am I caught up in worshipping an object? 

When God looks down on our nation does He see it "full of idols"?  Probably.  It is no less a problem today than it was then.  Some countries do still bow to statues and the like.  Those "worshippers" pray to these objects, too.  In my nation, however, it is more common to see idolatry exhibited more subtly, yet truly just as wrongly.  Here our idols have become more intangible.  The love of pleasure has been held in very high esteem.  Money, wealth, position, fame--these are very much sought after and "worshipped."  Webster's definition of "worship":  "the act or feeling of adoration or homage; the paying of religious reverence, the act or feeling of deference, respect, or honor toward virtue, power, or the like."  Do not those who pursue hard after money, position, fame and the like find themselves driven by their deference to and respect of the goal they seek?  Are some not even truly "religious" in the way they order their lives for these goals?  But if the end result is something other than glorifying their Creator, they have replaced Him with something made with their own hands and fingers. 

Anything, in my opinion, that we spend the bulk of our love, time and desire on is a potential idol.  What we invest in, (our "treasure"), is where our "heart" lies.  (Matthew 6:21:  "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.")  In considering idolatry, the question becomes, "what do I treasure above all?"

Here in this verse is the heart of idolatry and here is its greatest folly.  To worship something man-made as having power to make, or help, a man is the height of stupidity.

Prayer:  Keep me, oh Father, from idols!  Help me daily to sharpen my spiritual focus, that I may continually evaluate my heart.  Are You my Supreme Power?  Yes, Lord!  I pray You ever will be!  Amen. 

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