Listen, write and do

Are you are forgetful person?  I am.  And so, I must write things down to remember them.  It is so easy with the many issues of life to forget even the important matters.  Yes, important but still can be forgotten.  I get into trouble with my family when I forget.  I have to make sure I am listening well, writing them down, and doing what is needed.

Isaiah 28:10-12

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,

Line upon line, line upon line,

Here a little, there a little.”

For with stammering lips and another tongue

He will speak to this people,

To whom He said, “This is the rest with which

You may cause the weary to rest,”

And, “This is the refreshing”;

Yet they would not hear.

The message in this chapter is very simple. Are you listening? "Precepts upon precepts" is repeated a few times. There is clear order to be followed but it is also clear that people are not listening. It says here that they are "drunk". They have made a covenant with hell.

There is a parallel drawn from agriculture. Basically in anything we do there is order. Otherwise you will not get the intended fruit. No matter what we do with all the latest technologies and ways of doing things, human nature and the environment has not changed. We therefore need God's ways to show us how to live.

Isaiah 28:29 says, "This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance".

Father, please help me lead my life well. Help me fulfill my role as a child of God, husband, father and leader well.