Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Wednesday Devotion, December 9

Wednesday Devotion, December 9
Isaiah 5:8-19
8 What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land. 9 But I have heard the Lord of Heaven’s Armies swear a solemn oath: “Many houses will stand deserted; even beautiful mansions will be empty. 10 Ten acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine. Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket of grain.” 11 What sorrow for those who get up early in the morninglooking for a drink of alcohol and spend long evenings drinking wine to make themselves flaming drunk. 12 They furnish wine and lovely music at their grand parties—lyre and harp, tambourine and flute—but they never think about the Lord or notice what he is doing. 13 So my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me.Those who are great and honored will starve, and the common people will die of thirst. 14 The grave is licking its lips in anticipation, opening its mouth wide. The great and the lowly and all the drunken mob will be swallowed up. 15 Humanity will be destroyed, and people brought down; even the arrogant will lower their eyes in humiliation. 16 But the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will be exalted by his justice. The holiness of God will be displayed by his righteousness. 17 In that day lambs will find good pastures, and fattened sheep and young goats will feed among the ruins. 18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them with ropes made of lies, who drag wickedness behind them like a cart! 19 They even mock God and say, “Hurry up and do something! We want to see what you can do. Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan, for we want to know what it is.”
Quick Notes
These people that God is speaking against are not our enemies. These people are the people of God, Israel. They no longer act as if God is their God, and they reap the repercussions of it. It is possible for even us to "never think about the Lord or notice what he is doing."
Quick Questions
How often do you think about the Lord and notice what he is doing?
Quick Prayer
Lord God, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you. Amen.

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