We become like what we worship. If we worship God, then we become more Christlike, if we worship idols we become worthless like the idols. The Bible is consistent in pointing out the stupidity of idol worship. The idols were made by men, so how can they possible be of any help? The whole thing was a human enterprise.
There was a glaring inconsistency in idol worship, yet at the time idol worship would have looked very impressive. Whole nations were constructed around the worship of idols. Similarly there is a glaring inconsistency in the materialist worldview. Superficially it looks much more sophisticated than idol worship, but it is in reality no better. The materialist view says that dust gave birth to life, it is fact pantheistic in its outlook. The logical conclusion of materialism is that everything is meaningless. This includes the pronouncements of materialists that there is no God, and that what we see is all that there is. As it says in v20, the materialist is deluded.
We must remember that it is God who created us, and He will not forget us. This is a fundamental truth, and one that should guide our lives.
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