by Diana Howard

Created on: February 11, 2009   Last Updated: July 20, 2011

IDOLATRY: THE STUNTED IMAGINATION

"THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN ISAIAH'S DAY HAD STARVED THEIR IMAGINATION BY LOOKING ON THE FACT OF IDOLS"

Oswald Chambers

"My Utmost for His Highest"

This phrase has always intrigued me.  What could Mr. Chambers have meant by his comment.  There is a clue that teaches us its meaning in the book of Isaiah itself..

"LIFT UP YOUR EYE ON HIGH AND BEHOLD WHO HATH CREATED THESE THINGS" 

 Isaiah 40:26"

As a child of the twentieth century, I have seen incredible advances in technology take place over my sixty plus years of life. Color television, airplaines, supersonic jets and computers.  We put a man on the moon, and babies in test tubes.  The internet, cell phones, and nano-technologies are an integral part of our lives. Internet gaming has not only become a world-wide pastime, it has passed into obsession.  All of this might suggest that our imaginations are doing quite well.

The reality however, is that these advancements so readily available have, in reality, left little to the imagination.  They communicate for us, think for us, chain us with unending entertainment, leaving those who use them drained.  They have gone so far as to kill our appetite for the real thing.   We have given up close family time, and replaced that with an internet highway that is "frought with thought" most of it inferior and sometimes downright dangerous.  When there is a storm or an interrruption in internet service, my children act as if the world has just ended.  In some sense, for them, it has.  We are products of that which we devote our lives to.

We marvel at technology. and though we know  little about how it truly works, humanity as a group takes credit for it. Computers, for instance, based on a binary code, has its roots in mathematics. As long as the specialist understands the code, the sky's the limit. However, man didn't invent the code, nor was he responsible for the mathematics, which makes the technology possible in the first place. Man has only discovered, manipulated and benefited from God's eternal things like music and mathmatics that already in place. Man discovered them, he didn't invent them.  How could a finite being invent something that was infinate...it is simply not possible.  Further, he has no true understanding as to their deeper inner workings. If you doubt this, check the history of scientific

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