People keep wanting to put something between themselves and God. God wanted them to go up to the maintain to hear his law; they said, “Moses, you go up for us.” God wanted them to follow his directions for themselves, listening directly to him: they said, “We want a king like all the other nations have.”
Using an idol a man built a screen
Blocking God’s law with a shadow
Hoping in shade that he would not be seen
But rot soaked his bones to the marrow
We also tend to put up idols in the place of God. Isiah 40 speaks of how God will come in power and glory. It then moves into how the whole earth is as nothing before him. It then moves into a place where one goes to build an image.
Maybe it is a “natural” thing for men, when faced with the power of God and man’s powerlessness, to want to create an image, something they can fashion and controll. This is another “something” between himself and God.
Yet how strange that man is so like Satan and seeks to climb “the sides of the North” and sit as gods. The intermediaries and idols become as screens. They block the light of God so we can be our own gods over what is in the shadow of the screen. We think God can not see. We really have only put on dark glasses. There is no screen.
Speaking of wisdom (and hence the only source of wisdom, God:) “Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For he that findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.” (Proverbs 8:34)
I published a blog similar in subject in March 2017: “It’s the Middleman’s”.
