Jer 51:17-18 reads:
Every man is brutish by knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
As I pondered verse 17, and how it may apply today, it came to mind that among the ‘graven images’ a person may possess are his accomplishments – and, more importantly, how they may impact that person’s life.
Bringing it closer to home, how do you behave when you attain a goal, when you become one-of-the-best at something? It seems a feeling of satisfaction is a given… but does that satisfaction ever cross into something contrary, a heart issue? Maybe pride, arrogance, haughtiness? It seems like that is when the founder is confounded by the graven image.
Accomplishments are not eternal.
1 Cor 13:8 says:
Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail: whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. Like it says above… in the time of their visitation, they shall perish.
In Luke 7, Jesus said:
Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
God, I pray you give me eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to understand.
Read it for yourself. 