Your God - Dead or Alive?

In Deut. 4:28, God through Moses described the idols Israel would worship once they were scattered among the nations saying, “And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.” In scripture, God often distinguishes Himself as “the living God” in contrast to such idols constructed in the imagination of our own evil hearts (Jer. 18:12; 23:16-17). When we consider that none knowingly worship a god that they perceived to be false or dead, then we better understand the necessity to heed God's command for all to repent (Acts 17:30). For as sinners born in spiritual darkness, we all initially worship an idol of our own imagination, imagining that our god indeed does see, hear, eat, and smell – that He is the one true and living God and not just a mere “likeness.” (Deut 4:16-18, 23, & 25).