Isaiah 2:22 - "Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed?"
A rhetorical question, yet one that needs asking. The prophet prefaces the Lord's command with an emphatic ... STOP! God is not saying, "It would be a good idea if you did not listen to that prosperity preacher," or "You might want to not involve yourself with yoga or meditation." In context of the first couple of chapters of Isaiah, the Lord is saying through the prophet for Israel to divorce their thinking from the knowledge of eastern thought or Babylonian concepts. Should we in America not heed this same "emphatic" to STOP listening to what man thinks and start getting back to the word of God?
C.S. Lewis appropriately suggested that all thought outside of pure Christianity is Hindu at best. It is the idea of working our way up to God rather than acknowledging His Son has already worked His way down to us through His death, burial, and resurrection. Whom shall we follow today, beloved of God? Shall we listen to man or God? ... As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15).
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