Isaiah 2:8
8 Their land ['erets] also is
full [male'] of idols; ['eliyl] they worship [shachah] the
work [ma`aseh] of their own hands, [yad] that which their own fingers ['etsba`] have made: [`asah]KJV-Interlinear
8 Their
land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands,
That which their fingers have made. NASB
Idols of this world, are
nothing more than obsessions, heroes, stars, pin-ups, favorite things, things
to which one looks for objectives, meaning and purpose and hope. And unfortunately, all of these things are
useless and nonsensical.
Whether you are bowing
down to a fat man idol, or to the idol of prosperity and wealth, or to your
idol or focus of your social life, or to your wants and whims and desires of
life, they are all pointless and false objectives or targets.
The hands, is a reference
to the work of your own self, of your own imagination, of your own invented beliefs.
Fingers, is a reference
symbolically, to the details with which you pursue your own dreams, or day
dreams, or lusts and desires of your heart.
And all of these things
are false and void of substance and results.
When you ignore God, then
you have only one other thing to focus on in life. When you spend only part of your time on God,
in any fashion, you still fill out the rest of your time seeking the details of
life, things of this world.
There are only two
spheres or environments in which you can live your life, and the first is the
worldliness of the world, and the second is the spirituality of the Godly life.
The first is rather
obvious. It consists of everything that
you can detect with your senses, see, smell, taste, hear, touch and so forth.
The Godly life is
supernatural and beyond the senses, but it is certainly more easy to function
from within, than the world. You only
have to be saved, first of all, and that is attained through faith in Christ,
and the second part of the spiritual life is fellowship, by which you obtain
through confession of your sins. So you
can see, it is not really a complicated matter.
In short we simply call
these two spheres the carnal sphere or the spiritual sphere.
All unbelievers live
their lives perpetually in the carnal sphere.
Only believers can live
in the spiritual sphere, but unfortunately most believers commit sins, do not confess
them and thus live their lives in the carnal sphere as well.
And so in carnality, you
are surrounded by the influences of the world, and you, not being influenced by
the spiritual side of life, will be led into the false world of the carnal
world.
Whether you are a good
person or not, is irrelevant. The sphere
in which you live your life, is relevant, and determines your course and
destiny in life.
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