Connect With God

Isaiah 59:1-15
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear.
² But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
And your sins have hidden His face from you,
So that He will not hear.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue has muttered perversity.

⁴ No one calls for justice,
Nor does any plead for truth.
They trust in empty words and speak lies;
They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

⁶ Their webs will not become garments,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the act of violence is in their hands.
⁷ Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ The way of peace they have not known,
And there is no justice in their ways;
They have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.
¹¹ We all growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.
¹² For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And as for our iniquities, we know them:
¹³ In transgressing and lying against the Lord,
And departing from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
¹⁴ Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.
¹⁵ So truth fails,
And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Our God is here and wants to save us.  He hears our every word and knows what our hearts are thinking.  We are His children and His blood runs through us.  He asks us not to look at the man who is building his life and empire on pure worldly knowledge, because there is no truth and realness in that individual and he will do whatever it takes to keep his kingdom from falling, even kill if there's no alternative.  (Romans 16:18) "For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple."  (Psalms 5:9) "For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue."  Our Lord will pronounce them guilty if we'll wait and watch through our bibles.  We come from God so He knows what we are capable of doing because He's been there, done that.  God must do what He has to do to us to bring love into His kingdom.  (Jeremiah 17:9) tells us, "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?  I, the Lord search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."  God dealt with satan, and we have nothing on him, or our world wouldn't be in the situation it is in.  We are letting satan destroy our minds by keeping them focused on the things around us.  God asks us not to look at the things we can see, but the things we can't see.  Then when our spiritual eyes and heart are open to receive His words and knowledge He will dispense His truth.  (John 3:18-21) "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.  But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."  Everywhere we walk today we hear mouths speaking foul language, plans and dreams being built on world knowledge, and excessive drinking and drug use.  Complete anger, criticizing, backbiting, selfishness, and separation from one another is rampant.  There is no justice in us and we pretend and pretend and pretend with each other, all to fulfill our flesh.  Satan has grabbed a hold of us and we're refusing to fight him off.  A life of beauty has been ordained for us and only sincere love for God and one another will manifest it.  Connect with God and see it come to life.  (1Peter 3:8) "Finally all of you, be likeminded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble."
 




Blessings as we connect to God and receive justice,




Vincent Young, Christian Analyst