God Is Speaking, We're Just Not Listening

“Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention. Each time the message was this: ‘Turn from the evil road you are traveling and from the evil things you are doing. Only then will I let you live in this land that the LORD gave to you and your ancestors forever. Do not provoke my anger by worshiping idols you made with your own hands. Then I will not harm you.’ “But you would not listen to me,” says the LORD. “You made me furious by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer. [Jeremiah 25.4-7] 

Just because God's people were not listening did not mean God was not speaking.

Let's make this contemporary:

Just because you are not listening does not mean God is not speaking.

Or, let's make it a little more in-your-face:

God is speaking, we're just not listening.

What is God speaking about? He is speaking about His people not trusting in Him ALONE. He is speaking about idolatry - about any and every idol man trusts in that he has made for himself. The Bible would be content-less without the repeated subject of idolatry and God's jealousy provoked by it all under the promise of redemption - Jesus Christ.

An idol is not an idol because it is called an idol. It is an idol because of its function. The function of an idol is to do for man anything (real or perceived) that God specifically said He would do for man. 

The most undetected, and therefore the most dangerous, idols are those man makes with his own hands - those industries man has made for himself and justified by the fact that God gave man knowledge. The fallacy of this line of reasoning is revealed when we reason that God also gave man the knowledge of murder... but that is not God's endorsement to do it!

Cover to cover, the Bible is speaking still today - God is speaking RIGHT NOW. Even though His own Son walked the earth in the flesh revealing God's miraculous intentions toward those who simply believe, followed by eternal life, people today, just like God's ancient people, would rather trust the idols they make for themselves. And, so they do. And no one even questions why God's people today suffer all the same disasters the world suffers. God is speaking - we're just not listening.

Father, pierce our hard hearts with the truth of Your Word today. Show us our gross unbelief - our idolatry - that is provoking Your jealousy by our completely ignoring Your Son's call for undivided faith. Show us how we are indistinguishable from the world. May we be found turning away from our idols - giving up our own way, taking up our cross, and following Jesus. So be it.