{"id":1591,"date":"2011-05-04T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:03:41","slug":"revisit-isaiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/revisit-isaiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisit Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year at Bible Study Fellowship, we studied the book of Isaiah. I had not systematically studied this book, so it was a good discipline. However, some of the reading and homework was too much for me to keep up with. It was time consuming just to get the answers the questions and I didn&#8217;t really spend time thinking through what I was reading.<\/p>\n<p>So now that the BSF study is over, I am going to go back and study it again, at my own pace.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah chapter one &#8211; it&#8217;s all about worship, not the kind at church, but the worship that God wants.<\/p>\n<p>This hits home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Quit your worship charades.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stand your trivial religious games:<br \/>\nMonthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings\u2014<br \/>\nmeetings, meetings, meetings\u2014I can&#8217;t stand one more!<br \/>\nMeetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them!<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve worn me out!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sick of your religion, religion, religion,<br \/>\nwhile you go right on sinning.<br \/>\nWhen you put on your next prayer-performance,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be looking the other way.<br \/>\nNo matter how long or loud or often you pray,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll not be listening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does God look for?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd do you know why? Because you&#8217;ve been tearing<br \/>\npeople to pieces, and your hands are bloody.<br \/>\nGo home and wash up.<br \/>\nClean up your act.<br \/>\nSweep your lives clean of your evildoings<br \/>\nso I don&#8217;t have to look at them any longer.<br \/>\nSay no to wrong.<br \/>\nLearn to do good.<br \/>\nWork for justice.<br \/>\nHelp the down-and-out.<br \/>\nStand up for the homeless.<br \/>\nGo to bat for the defenseless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s true worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year at Bible Study Fellowship, we studied the book of Isaiah. I had not systematically studied this book, so it was a good discipline. However, some of the reading and homework was too much for me to keep up with. It was time consuming just to get the answers the questions and I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}