Meditation on Isaiah 1: 1-4

This morning I have been reading the following passage of Scripture from the Book of Isaiah which refers to the rebellion by God's people. As I was reading and meditating on it, it occurred to me how applicable the message is for our land today. The UK has become a land where God is shut out of so many places and where His enemies appear to make headway all the time in their attempts to eradicate Him from people's lives. This is truly a sinful nation, a nation awash with the filth of pornography, foul language, and hedonistic attitudes. Homosexuality, lesbianism, abortion, drug addiction, alcoholism ... the list drags on and on of all the things that are an abomination to God. 


With the prevalent attitude of so many towards God and the feeble stance of so many who claim to be Christians, is it any wonder that it often seems that God has turned His back on this nation? Unless the nation repents then it will continue to sink lower and lower into the pit which is of its own making.


Isaiah 1: 1-4
1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem, which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
         For the LORD speaks,
         “Sons I have reared and brought up,
         But they have revolted against Me.

3“An ox knows its owner,
         And a donkey its master’s manger,
         But Israel does not know,
         My people do not understand.”

4Alas, sinful nation,
         People weighed down with iniquity,
         Offspring of evildoers,
         Sons who act corruptly!
         They have abandoned the LORD,
         They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
         They have turned away from Him.