Whose Side Are You On?

Isa 41:7-8 

"So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth 

with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for 

the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not 

be moved. But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob 

whom I have chosen, the seed 

of Abraham my friend." 

     The whole world was on one side, while Abraham was on the other. Abraham was a renegade! The whole world believed one thing, and Abraham believed another. Abraham continued to teach the world what no one else believed: That there was only one God; that He was loving; and that He wasn’t a man made thing. Abraham dedicated his life to teaching about God. He set in motion a shift in the human mindset that continued long after his death; one, in fact, that continues to this very day.
    In the book of Isaiah, the prophet was addressing the idolatry that was thriving. The fight between Abraham the Hebrew and the idol worshipers was still being fought in Isaiah’s day.  All kinds of craftsmen encouraged each other in their work, which was to produce idols. 
    Idols of wood and stone are mostly a thing of the past, but idol worship still thrives all around the world today. Anything that is a substitute for God is an idol. Anything we value more than God is an idol. Anything that dictates our actions, instead of God, is an idol.  Money can be an idol. A car can be an idol. Sometimes, we make people into idols. And society still says that it’s ok. But They Are Wrong!  
    Whose side are we on? Do we stand with those who live life for things? Or do we stand together with Abraham, and all his descendant who live to serve God?

Amen!

Reading: Is. 41:1-20

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry