Read Isa. 1:10-20
God compares Judah's sins to those of Sodom and Gomorrah. He questions their motives for all the religious rituals they observe. Their injustice nullifies all that they do to please God. Even their most holy holidays have become profane to God. Their prayers are no longer heard because of the blood on their hands. Sounds like America to me. Why do we go to church? To meet the "right" people, to look good, to do our weekly service to God? What have we done with the birth of Christ. We don't even celebrate it at the right time. We call it X-mas and we worship the gifts more than the Saviour. Does God turn his ear away because of the cry of the unborn child or the orphan in our land? Verse 16-17 gives us the remedy: repent and put our sins away. Pray and ask God to forgive us. Seek God's judgment, minister to the down-and-outer and defend the widow. There is hope. God says if we repent he will remove our sins away from us and we will be clean. We will be blessed in our land. If we don't we will fall to war.
Lord, we pray for our own hearts that we would not be content to live our lives with no responsibility for our nation. Show us how we can pray, repent, and minister to the needs of the needy.
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