The God-Made Man

Those who make them will become like them. Everyone trusts in them. (Psalm 115:8)

There is a huge difference between man-made gods and a God-made man. Idolatry is the reality of dead men making dead gods. Men fashion and design their gods for convenience and the ability to manage them. They can carry their gods into whatever their life situation presents to them. Big difference from being carried through the life situation by a God who lives. In Israel's formative years some would carry their household gods with them on a journey, or into a battle, or during times of festivities. Their gods were there to insure favor, future, or fertility. But futility was what these idols produced. There was not much difference in the lives of God's people at times than the lives of pagan people around them. The trust that people placed in idols could not bear fruit. Only futility. Uselessness. And men became like the things they worshipped. Our word for today is that they still do.
Idolatry in our day produces faithless people. Useless for God's work. Worthless in bearing eternal fruit. Dead men do not praise the Living God. A man must be made alive to worship the Living God. The Living God speaks to dead men and they live...to worship the God of the living.
And when people worship the Living God...they will become like the One they worship. This is the life of the God-made man. Living to worship the Living God and forsaking sinful idolatry once and for all. Hallelujah! Our God lives.