Isaiah - Verse By Verse

Isaiah - Day 12

versebyverse | May 19, 2008 19:27

Scripture:  Isaiah 1:12 (NIV):  "When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts?"

Thought:  To me, Christian people need to re-evaluate what true worship is all about.

Question:  Have I become still long enough today to reflect on God's awesomeness?

Busy activity does not impress God.  The busy feet of Priests and Levites administering animals for sacrifice with empty thoughts and hearts, is not what God called for:  God wants something entirely different.  This description calls up an image of something like cattle stampeding over precious ground, destroying everything beautiful in their path.  There is no self-control; there is no reverential respect. 

Church programming, social clubs that meet in church buildings, activities people enjoy outisde of church modified enough to be brought into the church are not at all pleasing to God.  To "appear before" the Living God ought to inspire complete awe and quiet respect on our parts.  It's as though His people Israel had lost all sense of God's supreme Holiness.  Instead, His Temple had become a market place and His courts too busy with human agendas for them to be still and worship Him.

Prayer:  Great and Holy God, cause me to humble myself before You when I come into Your presence.  May I never "trample" Your Holy "courts"!  Amen. 

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