Isaiah 58 Again Today- it's short :-)

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Isaiah 58:1-14
Fasting that Pleases God A Description of True Religion 1 "Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. 2Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God. 3"Why have we fasted,' they say, "and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?' "In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exploit all your laborers. 4Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high. 5Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the LORD? 6"Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? 7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh? 8Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. 9Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, "Here I am.' "If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, 10If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday. 11The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. 12Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. 13"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words, 14Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the LORD has spoken."


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~ Lena’s Journalin’ ~
Today we re-read a passage we’ve read again and again, especially those who’ve read along with us here over the past few months. So I’ll keep my comments short and allow you to savor the word of the Lord, that obviously bear repeating, again and again.
Job 33 says in vs 14For God may speak in one way, or in another, Yet man does not perceive it. 15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds, 16Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction. 17In order to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man, 18He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
Why does God keep repeating Himself? Why have we yet not heeded the word of the Lord to the point of change? The Lord actually made humans to hear words more than one time in order to adopt and adapt to them. Yet if we find we feel the same word has been repeated in our hearing several times, we must ask, “Am I yet doing this word, have I yet taken it seriously?”
Lastly, for today. The word of God is serious. God does not speak flippantly at all, ever, when he speaks creation gives heed, do humans take heed? Ever hear yourself say, “Ah, I don’t believe that?”
Guess what, whether we believe in the words of God or not, they are true and will come to pass. Whether we think them serious enough to merit change, the word will have its work in the earth anyway, we just may miss out on the participation of it.
This will later on make us feel quite sad and regretful, for we then will realize of all of the changes we could have decided to make through Christ’s strength. As we stand before our Father we will so clearly see our self- centered ways and all we could have participated in, in the earth on our Divine assignment here.
Let us read and heed the words of life TODAY!