Daily Devotion: Isaiah 5:12-13

Isaiah 5:12-13    "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.  (13)  Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst."

Hosea 4:6    "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

Isaiah 5:16    "But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness."

I included three passages this morning in order that we might see the entire picture. I had two visions in my mind as I read Isaiah 5:12-13. I saw auditoriums and stadiums packed with people in order to see their favorite performer with all the instruments and sound equipment. Their mindset is this, "The louder, the better."  Their feasts consist of everything, but God. "They regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of His hands."  The second vision was that of empty pews on Sunday morning.

 We are still in that mode of "reasoning together with God;" therefore, He tells us, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."  This is a very serious matter when God's people "have no knowledge" of God's reasoning concerning our spiritual walk. There is one source of hope in all of life: That hope is the truth that "the Lord of hosts shall be exalted." God will not be robbed of His glory, but our part of the reasoning process lies in our receiving of that knowledge. What shall we do with this grand truth? Will we turn back to Him and put Him first in our lives?

I return back to Chapter One for God's reasoning to us. "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:  (20)  But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." (Isaiah 1:19-20)