Journal 
No Comparison…
July 21st, 2007‘To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?’
(Isaiah 46:5)
Reading: Isaiah 46
Throughout history, man has been consumed with the attempt to understand and identify God. When done however, the end result is idolatry. Long ago, someone asked me what I thought God would look like if he were truly watching us each day. After thinking for a while, I made the statement that he would most likely look like a hobo… Here’s why:
| God | Hobo |
| No place to rest his head | Live on street |
| Omniscient | Hear everything going on around them |
| Omnipresent | They are in every place |
| Hated by this world | They are hated by society |
| Left outside knocking | Left outside begging |
| Left royal robes to put on flesh and dwell amongst us (Riches to Rags) | Most were successful at one point (Riches to Rags) |
| Mocked by the world | Mocked by those more successful |
Though I have listed only seven items in this example, you can already see the similarities, can you not? In reality however, there is no comparison that can be given to Almighty God and any attempt to do so is actually idolatry (Romans 1:23). One reason for this, is that I have left out all of the attributes that don’t match, twisting the words to fit a comparison.
Another reason that this and other comparisons can promote idolatry, is that I have allowed a person, whether myself or another, to be able to look at a physical thing and believe that this is an adequate representation of the Lord God. This may cause a reaction found in verse 7, where ‘They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place, shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble’.
