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Was it All in Vain?

Isaiah 58:1-3(Key Verse 2)

Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet 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. “Why have we fasted,” they say, “and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?”

    Picture yourself in a crowded room full of talking people, everyone will be trying to over talk each other and screaming to hear one another. What chaos everything would be in and no one would ever be heard this way. So how would you make all the noise stop and how could everyone hear each other without feeling like another conversation is overpowering their own? There’s only way, someone has to brave enough to stand up in the midst of all the chaos and scream “QUIET”, that always seems to work and will get everyone’s attention. Noise can be one of the hardest things to block out and when it’s very loud it’s even harder to make the aggravating sound stop. Compare this to your own life for a minute what’s so loud in your life that you can’t hear or even notice other things around you?

Is it that you really can’t hear the noises or you’re blocking them out to ignore them? Usually when something is loud it’s hard to ignore it because of its capacity and intentions to overpower whatever else may be in the room. Imagine how God feels having to push through our everyday distractions and sin just to get our attention. What if your flesh is so loud that it caused you to miss God’s voice and his instruction? Fighting noise is like fighting a pack of wolves only to then have to wrestle with a bear, God fights to prove his justice towards us, he’ll fight past whatever is in his way just to prove his love towards us.  Who else would go through so much just to prove how much he cares, no one but God. His everyday cry (warning) is for his people to turn and seek after only him. He is the only one, who has our greatest interest at heart, he genuinely wants to see his people prosper.

Isaiah 58 declares that God exposes the shallow worship his people gave him, they questioned him about why their prayers went unanswered. But did they consider how they ignored him and didn’t answer when he called. God responded to them and he spoke right to the heart of each of them explaining why they have missed the mark so many times. Instead of us being the one standing on a chair in the middle of a crowded room trying to get everyone’s attention, its God doing so. He is screaming trying to get us to wake us up from the sin that has distracted us and dragged us away from him. We question God when we aren’t blessed but let’s remember how much we’ve ignored him. He has patiently waited for us to respond to him and because we didn’t answer he had to take matter into his own hands.

In the world today so many people believe God is a mean and all he does is sit on his throne and judge all day. We believe that what we do will never matter, and have programmed ourselves to believe that our lives are in vain. Holiness seems unobtainable and living consecrated seems like it can never be done. Like the Children of Israel so many of us today say that God is unfair and doesn’t care about us. Is what we do all in vain, are our lives that bad that God has saved us so he could make us suffer for all the wrong we have done? Of course not, God is a fair God and he has remained on his throne to serve justice for us. That’s why he pushes righteousness so much because he wants us to live in the freedom he died for us to have. This should make us want to serve him and live to please him daily.

Living for God won’t be in vain when it’s connected to obedience, how can we live in God’s righteousness with no real confession or belief in who he is. The confession hold us accountable and makes us live up to our word of saying we trust God. This is done by simply obeying God and his word. If what God did wasn’t enough for us to live right then him dying to save us was in vain. It shouldn’t be because it was for a purpose, Christ died to save us. What King doesn’t rule over his people? His sacrifice was our way of paying off our debt. He died so we have no choice but to serve him, we actually owe God but just in case we couldn’t pay our debt he already paid the price for us.

Our living isn’t in vain and God is calling us to live according to the way he did. God did things this way so we could become the righteousness of God, and live to profess his glorious works throughout the Earth today. Embrace this glory today and live in the righteousness (justice) of our Sovereign King!Amen.