To the moles and to the bats! – Thomas Brooks

“In that day, a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats!” Isaiah 2:20

In the day when God shall exalt Himself in the souls of His people, and before the eyes of His people, they shall express such disdain and indignation against their idols, that they would not take only those made of trees and stones but even their most precious and costly idols, those which were made of silver and gold and cast them to the moles and to the bats; that is, they should cast them into such blind holes, and into such dark, filthy, nasty, and dusty corners, as moles make underground, and as bats roost in.

So when Christ, and grace, and holiness comes to be set up in men’s hearts and lives, then all their darling sins, their bosom lusts which are their idols of silver and their idols of gold these are with a holy indignation cast to the moles and to the bats! They are so loathed, abhorred, abandoned, and dismissed, that they desire they may be forever buried in oblivion, and never more see the light!