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Day 19: Isaiah 57-66, Jeremiah 1-27
Isaiah in an ending chapter caught my eye, particularly because I am reading the entire Bible while on a 40-day water fast. So each day almost corresponds (I read and record 5 days a weeks with weekends off, so even though the fast will be 40 days, there will be 30 recordings) with how long I've gone without food while gorging myself 3 hours a day on God's Word. These last several verses caught my eye, and made me check my own heart before I went on reading:
A ridiculously idolatrous and sinful people are demanding of God why doesn't He appreciate their hypocritical outward signs of obedience to Him and reward them for it.
Isaiah 58:3-5 Why have we fasted, they say and You do not see it? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and You take no notice of it? Behold, O Israel, on the day of your fast when you should be grieving for your sins, you find profit in your business, and instead of stopping all work, as the law implies you and your workmen should do, you extort from your hired servants a full amount of labor. The facts are that you fast ony for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Fasting as you do today will not cause your voice to be heard on high. Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? Is true fasting merely mechanical? Is it only to bow down his head and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him to indicate a condition of heart he does not have? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?
It made me truly pause and ask if I'm doing this completely unto the Lord.
65:17-For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
After so many thousands of years of misery and suffering and sin. God's world of peace makes living today somehow seem bearable.
65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy Mount, says the Lord.
It seems no surprise to me at all that we have so much confusion and sin and idol worship today, 66:4- So I also will choose their delusions and mockings, and I will bring their calamities and afflictions, and I will bring their fears upon them-because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not listen or obey. But they did what was evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.
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By DanielleIsaiah in an ending chapter caught my eye, particularly because I am reading the entire Bible while on a 40-day water fast. So each day almost corresponds (I read and record 5 days a weeks with weekends off, so even though the fast will be 40 days, there will be 30 recordings) with how long I've gone without food while gorging myself 3 hours a day on God's Word. These last several verses caught my eye, and made me check my own heart before I went on reading:
A ridiculously idolatrous and sinful people are demanding of God why doesn't He appreciate their hypocritical outward signs of obedience to Him and reward them for it.
Isaiah 58:3-5 Why have we fasted, they say and You do not see it? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and You take no notice of it? Behold, O Israel, on the day of your fast when you should be grieving for your sins, you find profit in your business, and instead of stopping all work, as the law implies you and your workmen should do, you extort from your hired servants a full amount of labor. The facts are that you fast ony for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Fasting as you do today will not cause your voice to be heard on high. Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? Is true fasting merely mechanical? Is it only to bow down his head and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him to indicate a condition of heart he does not have? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?
It made me truly pause and ask if I'm doing this completely unto the Lord.
65:17-For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
After so many thousands of years of misery and suffering and sin. God's world of peace makes living today somehow seem bearable.
65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy Mount, says the Lord.
It seems no surprise to me at all that we have so much confusion and sin and idol worship today, 66:4- So I also will choose their delusions and mockings, and I will bring their calamities and afflictions, and I will bring their fears upon them-because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not listen or obey. But they did what was evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.