Isaiah 1

Isaiah

{1:2} Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
{1:3} The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
{1:4} Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

The ox knoweth his owner...
The ass his master's crib...

We could say the dog knows his owner and the horse his stall. Right? We understand that don't we? Having pets we understand their devotion. Are animals instinctively geared to follow their owners, their keepers?

We're not animals, but we are given every reason to follow our own Creator, our Father, our caregiver.

If we don't want to equate ourselves with animals- if we want to believe we are better, well, it's true. We were created much higher than the animals, animals were to be subject under us. But...where man errs is thinking that he is greater than his Creator, more important than his Maker.


The Lord hath spoken-- I have nourished and brought up children.


We are God's children. Without God we wouldn't exist at all whatsoever but so many don't believe that. They believe that we are responisible for our own existence. That somehow mysteriously we just were without any real logic as to how we did that- sure there are a lot of strange, unbelievable theories but that's just what they are theories. Nothing could truly explain our existence other than our being created. We were created and our Creator, our Heavenly Father didn't leave us on our own to flounder He brought us up, He raised us with the knowledge of Him and the way of life that would be best for us.

What did His children do as He sought to nourish them and bring them up in the best way? They rebelled against Him.

The arrogance of man is unbelievable. Self is predominent and what we call independance, wanting to do for ourselves, is truly like a young child wanting to feed themselves, wanting to make their own way. A young child needs a caregiver. A young child might think they know what's best for them, but in truth they don't. A young child will jump into deep water not even realizing they can't swim and they drown. A young child will reach into the pretty fire not realize it will burn them. We are children of God and our wisdom, our knowledge is nothing compared to that of our Heavenly Father and yet we want to think we know it all.

We rebel.

We sin.

We turn to ourselves and our evil ways, our corrupt ways.

We forsake the Lord, we anger Him, we go backwards not forwards.

Seriously.

Today people are no different than the people of thousands of year ago. If anything even more so, people try to use science and popular theory to explain our existent, they don't want to answer to a Creator, to a Heavenly Father. They are rebellious.

It is my prayer that we all understand that we are children of the Lord. Children! We do have a heavenly Father we have to answer to. A heavenly Father who cares for us, His children and love us as only a parent can love a child.

By the mercy and grace of our Lord and our Savior may our hearts be made clean in Him, may our lives become lives of obedience to the Heavenly Father whose love for us knows no bounds.

Amen.