Can Your Idols Tell You the Future? (Isaiah 41:21-42:9)

Isaiah 41:21-42:9 shows us that our idols are empty because they cannot tell the future.  We can worship anything and everything as an idol.  And we look to those idols to tell us what to do.  When you think about it there is no shortage of people and things telling us what to do.  Advertisers have made a whole industry of it.  Using a series of practical examples of the religion of materialism (including the marketing of jeans with holes in them), since those are the kinds of idols most in view in the passage, this message shows the folly of idolatry.  Indeed our idols try to make us think that they can predict what will happen to us tomorrow, but they cannot really tell the future because they have no power to bring it about.  On the other hand, the true God did tell us what would happen — He told us hundreds of years beforehand of the coming of Jesus Christ.  So now let us not give His glory to created things (or even people in the image of God) nor His praise to things we have fashioned with our own hands.  Let us give the glory and praise to God alone.

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