A Contrast between the Sovereign God and impotent idols

Psalm 115 tells about the blessings we have because our God is the living God. He is not one of the “idols of the nations.” Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands (v.4). How true that is today also. Many people worship silver and gold as their god. They think money can do anything. We do need money for some of the practical things in life. But what good are the things that money can buy if you don’t have the things that money can’t buy?

The psalmist describes the idols and the pointless of worshipping them.

“They have mouth, but they do not speak [no promises]; Eyes they have, but they do not see [no protection]; They have ears, but they do not hear [no prayer]; Nose they have, but they do not smell [no praise]; They have hands, but they do not handle [no power], But they do not walk [not presence]; nor do they mutter through the throat. Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them” (vv.5-8).

How unlike God. Christians have promises — our God talks to us. We have protection because He sees all that happens. We have prayer because His ears are open to us. We can praise Him. (In the Bible, the smelling of a fragment offering is a picture of God’s acceptance of our praise to Him). We have power because He has an omnipotent hand.

We become like the god we worship. Those who worship silver and gold become like that — dead, lifeless and hard. Many people are making a god in their own image. But God made us in His image, and He wants us to have an active faith in Him.

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Christians have a living faith and serve a living God. The more you read His Word, fellowship with Him and praise Him., the more you become like Him. You have His promises, protection, prayer and power.