Isaiah 58

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This morning I reread this chapter.  Yesterday's notes are listed beneath this statement.  Having gone before the Father this morning, I do not feel as guilty about this chapter as I did last night.  I knew there were things I had not done according to His Word In Isaiah 58.  Now, I know I can do these things and I see more of what it is saying instead of feeling guilty about something I can change.  I walk away knowing that there is no image God wants representing Him other than what we do for people around us who need Him.  If the only image we share with the world is a religious show, then we must examine what company or army are we really representing.  If I say baptist, methodist, witness, catholic, church of (fill in the blank) ..... and many more, we immediately can form an image of what their motto is or their statement of faith.  If people do not see Christ after we gladly announce our membership of any particular cult, it is not of God.  God's church has one name, The Word Of God.  If that is not who we represent, we are in the way of God's purpose.  We must do more than what the government is doing for the people.  So far religion 0/government+ (sad but true).


Isaiah 58:1-14 (KJV) 



1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 


Do not be silent.  Let people know what is wrong.  Tell people what the Word of God says.


2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 


I seek the Lord daily.

I want to know your ways.

Lord help me not to go against your guidelines.

Lord, I want to be in your presence.

I do not want to be seen as you have listed, not doing what is right.

Help me to do what is right moving forward.



3 Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 



Lord, help me to fast according to Your Word.  Help me to know when I am doing things to be seen.



4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 


Lord deliver me from strife.  Help me to operate with the right heart.

I have done wrong trying to represent You.  I do what I think is right.  It bothers me greatly when people waste time arguing with me about Your Word.  I admit I do not know how to do what I have done differently.  Your Word means everything to me.  Help me to hear and do what You say with the right spirit.  I do not want to displease you trying to obey You.



5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?


Lord, I know You have no pleasure in vain obedience.




 6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 


Show me how to loose the bands of wickedness.  I believe I can let go of any ties that I may be connected to sin.

I do not want to put people under pressure to do what I want.  Help me to be kind even when I know I am doing wrong by others.

Show me how to speak to the oppressed and to do my part to make things easier for others.  Thank you for helping me.



7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? 


Help me to share what I have with others.

Lead me to the place that allows me to share my house with the poor.  Please help me understand this without me making excuses.

When I see someone in need please help me notice and help them.

I do not want to be like Abigal's husband Nabal who had more than enough but refused to share what he could.

Help me to help those in my own family.



8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. 


When I do these things I know you will meet my needs.  Help me to have the heart to obey You according to what you are saying in this chapter.



9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 


Please help me.  I have unanswered prayers.  Show me how to do better.  I do not want You to ignore me.  I want to know that I am responding according to Your Word.  This chapter makes me cry because I am failing in these instructions in so many ways.



10 And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday: 


If I can be depended on to help others, You will look for me.  I know these things, I am scared I will forget.  Show me how not to forget what I am learning about Your ways.



11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 


Show me Lord how not to overlook what I do not have a habit of doing that is right.



12 And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 


Thank you for showing me myself.  Help me to do what I need to do and thank you for my sons helping me to get something done so that I can show someone who You are in more than just words.



13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] 

 words: 


Lord show us how to represent You.  Lead me to the right place to teach me how to be a part of where You are in this chapter.

I have given to many people, but I did not know that I was in the wrong place.  Help me, Lord.  I am discouraged because I don't know what to do at this very moment.



14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].


Thank you for showing me how to delight myself in You.  I look forward to seeing Your Word manifested in my life.  Help me not to feel guilty.  I want to do right.

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