Psalms 115:8. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
That is to say, they are as stupid and doltish as the idols they make. If they can bow down and worship such things as these, surely the worshippers are fitted for the gods, and the gods for the worshippers. Now, brethren, recollect that there is a spiritual idolatry that is very much in vogue nowadays. Certain "thinkers"-as they delight to call themselves, whose religion is known as "modern thought",-do not accept the one living and true God as he reveals himself in the Old and the New Testaments; but they make a god out of what they are pleased to call their own consciousness. Truly, their idols are reason and thought-the work of men’s brains. Their god does not hear prayer, because it would be absurd, they say, to suppose that prayer can have any effect on Deity. Their god has little or no regard for justice; according to them, you may live as you like, but all will come right at last. They hold out a "larger hope" that the wicked will all be restored to God’s favor; if that should be the case, there would be no justice left upon the face of the earth or in heaven either. All this is false. A god that a man can comprehend is not really a god at all.
A god that I could excogitate from my own brain must, of necessity, be no god. There can only be the one God who is made known to us by divine revelation. God must be infinitely greater than the human mind; he must be beyond our utmost conception,-of whom we can know but little compared with what he really is, and that little he must himself reveal to us. Beware, I pray you, of a god that you make for yourself. Take God as you find him in this Book, and worship him; otherwise, you will find that there may be mental idols as well as idols of silver, and gold, and wood, and stone. "The God of Abraham praise." "The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob," the God of the whole earth shall he be called; "the God that led his people out of Egypt, the God of Sinai is the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;" and "this God is our God for ever and ever." Ours is no new religion; it is the religion of Jehovah worship, and to this we will cling, whoever may oppose.
Psalms 115:8. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
That is to say, they are as stupid and doltish as the idols they make. If they can bow down and worship such things as these, surely the worshippers are fitted for the gods, and the gods for the worshippers. Now, brethren, recollect that there is a spiritual idolatry that is very much in vogue nowadays. Certain "thinkers"-as they delight to call themselves, whose religion is known as "modern thought",-do not accept the one living and true God as he reveals himself in the Old and the New Testaments; but they make a god out of what they are pleased to call their own consciousness. Truly, their idols are reason and thought-the work of men’s brains. Their god does not hear prayer, because it would be absurd, they say, to suppose that prayer can have any effect on Deity. Their god has little or no regard for justice; according to them, you may live as you like, but all will come right at last. They hold out a "larger hope" that the wicked will all be restored to God’s favor; if that should be the case, there would be no justice left upon the face of the earth or in heaven either. All this is false. A god that a man can comprehend is not really a god at all.
A god that I could excogitate from my own brain must, of necessity, be no god. There can only be the one God who is made known to us by divine revelation. God must be infinitely greater than the human mind; he must be beyond our utmost conception,-of whom we can know but little compared with what he really is, and that little he must himself reveal to us. Beware, I pray you, of a god that you make for yourself. Take God as you find him in this Book, and worship him; otherwise, you will find that there may be mental idols as well as idols of silver, and gold, and wood, and stone. "The God of Abraham praise." "The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob," the God of the whole earth shall he be called; "the God that led his people out of Egypt, the God of Sinai is the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;" and "this God is our God for ever and ever." Ours is no new religion; it is the religion of Jehovah worship, and to this we will cling, whoever may oppose.