“Therefore
hear this now, you who are given to pleasures . . . who say ‘I am and there is no one else’.” Isaiah 47:8
What is our goal in life? Do we want
to “get it all”? Are our hands or eyes ever satisfied? Who do we think about
the most? What do we want the most? What testimony would our schedule book or
our checkbook say about our priorities and commitments? Today’s
passage wasn’t given by God to the people of the nations around Israel. It was
given to those who called themselves by His name but really found something
else to be their real focus in life – that something being to seek fulfillment
in the world and not in God.
Jesus said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God.” Paul said that he died daily so
that “the life I now live I live by in
the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” God calls us to have
a focus that is not on ourselves but on Him.
Dear Father, Forgive us for being
too focused on self to rightly focus on You. Amen.
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