Isaiah 2:20

In that day a man shall cut his idols of silver

The return to God: idols cast away

The most beautiful sight on God’s earth is a man turning home again to God.

What will happen when he comes back? “They shall fling their idols to the bats and to the moles.” Blind as a mole, blind as a bat, and the idols have to go to them. The man discovers that the thing by which he has been led is itself a blind thing, and he flings it to blind things, to the moles and the bats. He sees that the thing is blind: which means that he has recovered his own sight, and therefore Malachi says, “They shall return and discern.” When they come back they shall see--see what things are, and what things are not, and no longer shall they be seduced. Their lands shall still be full of silver and gold. I have no wish for my country to be poor. But, when we have said that, we shall be able to alter the other phrase. No longer shall we say, “The land is full of silver and gold, the land is full of idols”; but this shall be the refrain, “The land is full of silver and gold, the glory of the Lord filleth the land as the waters cover the sea” (J. H. Jowett, M. A.)