Year 5, Day 353: Isaiah 3

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Discipleship Focus: Appetite

• Appetite: We all have needs that need to be filled.  When we allow ourselves to be filled with the people and things that God brings into our life, we will be satisfied because our In will be in proper focus.  But when we try to fill ourselves with our own desires we end up frustrated by an insatiable hunger.

Isaiah struggled against appetite in his whole ministry.  I’m not talking about his human appetite and hunger.  Isaiah struggled against the appetite of the people around him.  He saw a nation that focused on its own desires while abandoning God’s ways.  He saw a nation around him that was caught up in the appetite for the sinful desires of the flesh and that abandoned the ways of God.

The natural consequence of appetite is given to us by Isaiah.  God will allow us to come into judgment.  But here is the neat thing about God’s judgment.  God didn’t bring about some supernatural smite against His people.  God allowed them to have their way.  God allowed them to follow their appetite to its natural conclusion.  God allowed them to reap what they had sown.

That’s the beauty of God.  He has all the power to smite us with every sin.  But He doesn’t need to do that.  He lets us have our way.  He lets us win.  He lets us find a judgment of our own choosing.  We can hunger for Him and His righteousness or we can hunger for our own flesh.  Either way, God lets us follow the course of our action until the natural consequences come to play.

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