Wednesday, August 13, 2014

So Much Waste

Isaiah 31:7 KJV
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Isaiah preached that, during the Assyrian invasion, the people would find out that their idols were useless. They would cast them away as they fled for their lives. At one time they
  • Bowed down to them
  • Placed value in them and
  • Made sacrifices to them
Now they are just so much waste, a hindrance in their flight.

Contrast that with Christ. Countless are the accounts of foxhole and prison cell conversions where men and women who, having ignored Christ previously, in peril cry out to the Lord. Criticize the sincerity of those conversions if you please they do demonstrate the difference between the idol and the Lord. So far from fleeing Christ in a time of peril, they now flee to Him.

  • How much better would it be then to come to the Lord previous to peril?
  • How much better to have assurances of His presence, His care and His aide in the time of flight?
  • How much wiser is the one who, in youth, comes to know Christ as Saviour, friend and companion?

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