Isaiah 45-46

(January 3, 2015)

                Idolatry is a huge problem in modern society.  Many of those most enmeshed in this sin deny that idolatry even exists (or would claim that Christianity is nothing more than idolatry) but it is a sin that persists even among the people of the Church.  And, like Isaiah described, we are not only idolatrous but foolish in our idolatry.

                Whereas the ancients made idols out of gold or silver or wood, and having crafted them bowed down, we tend towards electronic idols.  We no longer make our idols, but rather we buy them at WalMart and set them on our entertainment centers and give our lives over to them.  They are our televisions, our computers, our smart phones, and all of the other trappings of modern life that have passed the point of being ways to pass the time and have become what we must acknowledge to be items of genuine worship.  Technology is great, but we mustn’t allow it to replace the Lord in our lives.