Isaiah 5
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Editor: For the next three weeks we will be spending some time looking at the books of prophecy from the Old Testament – with at least one devotion for every book. Then, mid-November we will be ready to start Revelation, one chapter a day. And we will finish off the year with the last gospel we have not yet read this year: Luke. Keep Seeking God in His Word! SeekGrow(good fruit)Love!
We have all desired to be the plant lady/man at some point in our lives. We go to the store and get a cute little house plant, and then we put it on our windowsill and water it once or twice a week, depending on the type of plant.
But, if you are anything like me, you do not have the greenest thumb, and most of the time your plant ends up looking… well, dead.
My point is, that even though we may water that plant, and provide it with the best soil. If the plant were to cover itself up under a blanket and hide, it will never grow, and will eventually die.
That is what Isaiah 5 talks about in the song of the vineyard.
Isaiah 5:1-2
“I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: the one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest of vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.”
In this passage we are depicted as the vineyard, and God is the tender of us. He provides us with everything we need, and pursues a relationship with us, for us to live for him, and spread his word.
It is because he gives us freewill that we can choose him and grow healthy fruit that can be shared. It is we who decide what kind of fruit we are going to grow in the vineyard with our actions, and what we focus on.
Jerusalem at this time was not following God’s commands. They were pursuing drunkenness, compound sinfulness (denying your sin), and amalgamation of land (combining of land together with small properties). Today we aren’t necessarily combining land, but we may be pursuing other things that are not what God wants us to pursue.
God wants us to consider this, just as he wanted Jerusalem to consider it. Who was to blame for the worthless grapes? What caused the worthless grapes? And how can we produce healthy grapes? We have the free will to choose what we want to produce. Be the change.
-Hannah Eldred
Reflection Questions
- In what way/ways have you noticed your garden producing worthless fruit?
- How can you trust and grow closer to God, while letting him work your vineyard?
- How can you produce positive fruit and influence change?
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