Isaiah 29:13-14
13.
The Lord says: “These people come
near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are
far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules
they have been taught. 14. Therefore once more I will astound these
people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the
intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
پس خُداوند فرماتا ہے چُونکہ یہ لوگ
زُبان سے میری نزدیکی چاہتے ہیں اور ہونٹوں سے میری تنظیم کرتے ہیں لیکن اِن کے
دِل مُجھ سے دُورہیں کیونکہ میرا خوف جو اِن کو ہُوا فقط آدمیوں کی تعلیم سُننے
سے ہُوا۔ اس لئے مَیں اِن لوگوں کے ساتھ عجیب سلُوک کرُوں گا جو حیَرت انگیز
اور تعجب خیز ہوگا اور اِن عاقِلوں کی عقل زائِل ہو جائے گی اور اِن کے داناؤں کی
دانائی جاتی رہے گی۔
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These people come near to Me with
their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me: Jerusalem
knew how to talk the spiritual talk, but their hearts were far
from God. You can't always tell a person's heart by what they say.
You can't always tell a person's heart by what they do. Though only
God can really know the heart, the closest we can come is by looking at
the whole of their life - not just what they say or do, and
especially not only at how they act at ecclesia or among Brethren & Sisters.
Jesus said, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaks” (Matthew 12:34).
This is true because people can come near to God with
their mouths and honor the LORD with their lips, and their
hearts can still be far from God. Of course, their speech will
betray them at one time or another - but just maybe never at ecclesia! This
manner of talking the talk, but not having the heart, didn't end in Isaiah's
day. Jesus quoted this passage from Isaiah when He rebuked the religious
leaders of His day for their hypocrisy (Matthew 15:7-9, Mark
7:6-7). It didn't end in Jesus' day either!
How did their hearts get far from
God? They have removed their hearts far from Me. God
doesn't move away from His people; they remove their hearts from Him.
And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men: The
people of Jerusalem had no fear of God in themselves; it had to be commanded by
others. Because Their
hearts did not respond to God, but only to men.
The wisdom of their wise men shall perish: Because Jerusalem's pride had led them into spiritual blindness, sleep, drunkenness, illiteracy, and hypocrisy, God will destroy the wisdom of their wise men. Their wise men promoted the pride that led to all these evils! Isaiah calls this a marvelous work and a wonder, for God to reject the wisdom of man and to display His wisdom. Apostle Paul was also amazed at the "wisdom" of man, and how it compared to the "foolishness" of God: “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” (1 Corinthians 1:21-25).
Sometimes there are people around us
who worship God in vain. They forgot that the law is holy, and the commandment
holy, righteous, and good. Why they’re
doing like that because they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going
about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God. I pray that
they all know the LIGHT, that is God. And obey His commands and do not establish
their own righteousness but establish God’s righteousness so that no one
may offense because of them.
God the Father
be with us all.
God Bless you
all.
In the bond of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
Bro Shahzad
Gill
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