Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You've worn me out! I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion, while you go right on sinning.
When you put on your next prayer-performance, I'll be looking the other way. No matter how long or loud or often you pray, I'll not be listening. And do you know why? Because you've been tearing people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.
Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don't have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong.
Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless. Let's Argue This Out!
--God, Isaiah 1: 13-17 (the Message)
2 comments:
Guy,
"These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ".
How sad that we, for so long taught believers to chase shadows of the real thing, a relationship with Jesus. Jesus is the substance of grace and yet the church, in general, led, and still leads people to chase the substitute for grace, an unknowable shadow.
Imagine! Intimacy with a shadow?
John,
Interesting way of putting it--intimacy with a shadow--yet that is what we substitute for the real thing.
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