The Pilgrim Path---Psalm 135: 15 – 18 

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear; nor is there any breath in their mouths.

Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them.

“THOSE WHO MAKE THEM BECOME LIKE THEM”

Idolatry is a self-inflicting servitude. Giving yourself to the devotion of money, dominance over others, sex---anything other than the Living God---is terrible idolatry. This devotion robs God---and ruins the soul. It is instructive that the Holy Spirit tells us that you become like the things you deify. But they are no gods: they cannot see or hear your real needs---and they blind you to the beauty of Christ’s remarkable life---as revealed in the Gospels. Only the Holy Spirit can take the Truth of God’s Word and use it to make idolaters alive---otherwise, they continue to walk around---but remain spiritually dead. Has Jesus of Nazareth---the God Man, given you the ability to see and hear ultimate reality?

From Tim Keller: Anything more important to you than the real God is an alternate God. Idols have no power to give you the love, forgiveness, and the guidance you need. But paradoxically they do have power to make you like them and to keep you both spiritually blind and unable to see as well as spiritually lame and unable to change.

From John Duncan: Idolatry is but man’s helpless effort to get back to God, in whose image he was made.

Grace & Peace in Jesus, The Only Redeemer of broken and wretched souls, Pastor Jason