God commands the people of Israel to “stop bringing meaningless offerings.” I have always taken that to mean stop bringing offerings since you don’t really want to obey.
What struck me this morning is that it is only meaningless offerings that are to be stopped. The offerings become meaningless when there is inherent dishonesty in the bringing of them.
I take this to mean that in coming to worship, I should not be pretending to be something other than what I am through the week. And all through the week I should be offering my life in sacrifice to God.
In the text in Isaiah, God tells them what they should be about throughout the week in Isaiah 1:17. They should “seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
In Luke 6:46, Jesus asked why they call him lord yet do not do what he says. The same question should be asked today.
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