there is more to Worship than just a song, loud music and grand displays.... it is a lifestyle lived out daily.... with JESUS..... loosing the chains of injustice.... freeing the oppressed.... binding up the brokenhearted.... feeding the hungry.... clothing the naked..... loving GOD and loving OTHERS.... if our weekly worship time doesnt bring change..... doesnt compel and move us to be more likeminded with JESUS.... well.... living for JESUS is more than a neat song and good bible study..... we become more like him..... and HE didnt stay in a building.... HE came to us.... to live among us.... HE loved the unlovely (us) and HE touched the unclean (us) and HE gave sight to the blind (us) and He saved the wicked (us)..... He came.... He walked... He spoke.... He reached.... He loved..... and He asked us to follow HIM..... everyday our lives are opportunities to WORSHIP.... not just one day a week.... Tell my people what’s wrong with their lives, face my family Jacob with their sins! They’re busy, busy, busy at worship, and love studying all about me. To all appearances they’re a nation of right-living people—law-abiding, God-honoring. They ask me, ‘What’s the right thing to do?’ and love having me on their side. But they also complain, ‘Why do we fast and you don’t look our way? Why do we humble ourselves and you don’t even notice?’ “Well, here’s why: 3-5 “The bottom line on your ‘fast days’ is profit. You drive your employees much too hard. You fast, but at the same time you bicker and fight. You fast, but you swing a mean fist. The kind of fasting you do won’t get your prayers off the ground. Do you think this is the kind of fast day I’m after: a day to show off humility? To put on a pious long face and parade around solemnly in black? Do you call that fasting, a fast day that I, GOD, would like? “This is the kind of fast day I’m after: 6-9 to break the chains of injustice, get rid of exploitation in the workplace, free the oppressed, cancel debts. What I’m interested in seeing you do is: sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, being available to your own families. Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once. Your righteousness will pave your way. The GOD of glory will secure your passage. Then when you pray, GOD will answer. You’ll call out for help and I’ll say, ‘Here I am.’ Isaiah 58
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:17:33 +0000
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