Monkey God Tree Make a Monkey out of You!

Isa 44:15 Man gets wood from trees for fuel.

He uses some of it to warm himself.

He starts a fire and bakes bread.

But he also uses some of it to make a god and worship it.

He makes a statue of a god and bows down to it.

Isa 44:16 He burns half of the wood in the fire.

He prepares a meal over it.

He cooks meat over it.

He eats until he is full.

He also warms himself. He says,

"Good! I'm getting warm.

The fire is nice and hot."

Isa 44:17 From the rest of the wood he makes a statue.

It becomes his god.

He bows down and worships it.

He prays to it. He says,

"Save me. You are my god."

Isa 44:18 People like that don't even know what they are doing.

Their eyes are shut so that they can't see the truth.

Their minds are closed so that they can't understand it.

Isa 44:19 No one even stops to think about this.

No one has any sense or understanding.

If anyone did, he would say,

"I used half of the wood for fuel.

I even baked bread over the fire.

I cooked meat. Then I ate it.

Should I now make a statue of a god

out of the wood that's left over?

Should I bow down to a block of wood?

The Lord would hate that."

Isa 44:20 That's as foolish as eating ashes!

The mind of someone like that

has led him down the wrong path.

He can't save himself.

He can't bring himself to say,

"This thing I'm holding in my right hand

isn't really a god at all."