Thursday 7-2-15 (Home in Modesto)
Scripture reading: Isaiah
4-5 Ps 115-116 Jude
S.
Isa 5:1-2 My beloved has a vineyard on a rich
and fertile hill. He plowed the land, cleared
its stones, and planted it with choice vines.
In the middle he built a watchtower and carved a winepress in the nearby
rocks. Then he waited for a harvest of
sweet grapes, but… NLT
O. These
first chapters of Isaiah are filled with condemnation and judgment directed at
God’s chosen, but wayward people, the Israelites. It is not that they are worse than other
nations, but it is that He has poured out His divine blessing upon them,
trained them, cultivated them and loved them, but they have abandoned His
kindness and failed to produce good fruit.
A. So
we sit back, nod our heads and say, Amen, to these words without realizing that
God has written this in His book for us… not just for the Israelites of their
day, not just for nations to take notice… but for me personally. I have been a pampered child from birth,
enjoying the benefits of fervent Christian parents that applied strict
discipline. I have been surrounded by
loving people in good churches. I have
been raised under some of the finest of preachers of the Word. God has plowed my life, cleared away stony
obstacles, planted good seed in the soil of my life… and now He is waiting for
good fruit. I must not disappoint my
Savior.
P.
Blessed Lord, I first must thank You for my heritage! If You chose Israel and planned to use that
nation, You also chose me with a plan to use my life. I have no right, nor desire to choose my own
pathway. You have placed me in Your
garden for a divine purpose. May my eyes
be open and my ears attentive to Your guidance!
May my feet be shod and ready to march in the center of Your will! And one day, very soon, when You visit Your
vineyard, may You find an abundant harvest of sweet grapes! Amen.
Rafael
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