Episode 284: Isaiah 5

Today's Prayer Meditation is on Isaiah 5

I will sing a song of my love for you, Father. For the vineyard that you planted on a fertile hillside. You carefully tended the soil, and planted the choicest vines. You built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then you looked for a crop of good grapes, a harvest worthy of your labor of creation.

But humankind disappointed you. There was nothing more you could have done for us. You created the earth with everything we needed to not only sustain life, but to live abundantly and prosper. 

The only requirements for a good harvest were that we dressed it, and kept it, and didn't eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

But we let the enemy in. We rejected you and destroyed the hedge of protection you had built. The garden was trampled. What was once a beautiful garden became a wasteland of thorns and briers. 

The people you delighted in betrayed you. You looked for justice, but saw bloodshed. You looked for righteouness, but heard cries of distress. 

Though we lived house to house and field to field, with no space between us, we lived alone in the land, because we lived without you. 

Father, I humble myself before you. You are exalted by your justice. You are proved holy by your righteous acts. 

I respect the work of your hands. I call out evil for what it is. And I recognize good. I do not put darkness for light or light for darkness. I call what is bitter, bitter; and I call what is sweet, sweet. 

I do not consider myself wise in my own eyes, Father, or clever in my own sight. The wisdom and understanding I have come from you. 

I do not reject your law or spurn your word. 

You have lifted up a banner for me. You called me from the ends of the earth. And I answered your call swiftly and speedily. You give me strength so I do not grow tired or stumble. I am diligent and do not slumber or sleep. My bow is strung with the arrows of your Word, Father. I am poised and ready to be victorious in battle.

So be it.

Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing.

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