The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. Psalm 135:15(NKJV)
Human efforts are idols. They are the work of men’s hands. Idols are helpless and useless. Everything man does in his own understanding and strength without God will eventually wear out, fade, waste, and be destroyed.Idols have mouths, ears, eyes, but they don’t speak, hear, or see. Psalm 136:16-17. This is referring to human sense knowledge and physical ability. We cannot see, know or understand reality based on our human senses. We cannot live effectively the way God purposed in our own physical strength.Human plans and pursuits without God may outwardly and for a little while seem successful but in the end it’s all vanity and ruin. The physical body itself grows old and dies, knowledge gets outdated, fame fades, accumulated possessions become useless and go to waste and there’s no lasting fulfillment in all these things.There’s nothing in all our abilities and accomplishments that can speak for us in the face of the calamities as well as the end of life on this earth.Let the Ever living, only true God, the all-powerful One, the One who has the final say be your confidence.Let what He sees and says about you be your reality and reference.