Jer:10:16
But the God of Israel is no idol
He is the creator of everything that exists.
There is stark contrasting between handmade idols and the everlasting Almighty God in Jeremiah Chapter 10. Idols do not deserve to even exist in the presence of the creator, sustainer, All powerful God.
Israel is but guilty of comparing (or even replacing) these carved worthless ridiculous scarecrows against the name who is great and full of power. According to their own whims and fancies, they decide how to carve their idols - whether to coat it with gold or silver, what wood to use, how long it's tail or its snout should be. It is all the craftsman's idea. And then they make it their God. How ridiculous?
Jer:10:8 People who worship idols are stupid and foolish.
Jer:10:15 Idols are worthless; they are ridiculous lies.
Oh! Israel you are guilty.
Oh! Bard you are guilty. You have made your own idols, of your own intellect, your own money, your own blood, your very kingdom which you have built, slowly you have allowed to encroach unto the throne that has been kept for the King of Kings.
Slowly you have let it engulf. Slowly you have dethroned Him. Slowly you have ousted Him. Yet God is not a tyrant, who would barge in to grab what is His.
He waits till judgement. He is powerful. He who made the heaven and earth, whose name is power and preserves with His wisdom. His wrath is with held. His justice is held. Waiting. For you to realize and repent and return. Out of His love He is waiting.
Jer:10:16 Israel, His own possession.
Why do you oh! bard, "sillify" His love? His patience, His righteousness, His wrath? His love to you was so deep that He bore it all on Himself, your punishment on the cross. Where oh! bard is your love? Your response? Still indulging in the idols your hands have made. Repent and return.
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