Love the early mornings in the Fall; full of fresh smells, the dew on the grass and the crispness of the air.  Even though it is a foretelling of Winter where things die off and go dormant, it is a refreshing time that revitalizes me.

Isaiah 1:4-7 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

⁵ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

⁷ Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Written by Isaiah about Two thousand eight hundred years ago – it is a vision of what Judah and Jerusalem will look like if they do not repent.

Written Two thousand eight hundred years ago and is describing what is happening in America today.

As a country we have fallen away from God.  We go about our own way and the results have been catastrophic.

Cities are indeed burning.

Our lands are suffering from improper management.

The things that are occurring within our country cannot be mollified with words or actions that are hollow in their deeds.

We see those that hate America coming in and gaining control over it by virtue of accusations of bias and prejudice; demanding changes that are in direct conflict with both the Constitution of the United States and the Word of God.

We see the same thing happening to our country that has happened to great countries throughout history.  We have followed in their footsteps like it is a blue print – but not to succeed in our endeavors, but to become corrupt and destroyed from within.

We can overcome the deceit and subterfuge, the sinful cesspool we have become; but the choice of whether we do or not is up to us.

Verses 18-20   Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹ If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

We are very fortunate.  We have an advocate that can stand with us before God.  We have a Holy Spirit that can teach and guide us into a more righteous life.

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

John reaffirms that God’s Word, that God’s desire, is for us to worship and live in Him. 

We are aware of what sin is, even those that try to twist God’s Word into meaning what it doesn’t, even those that refuse to even consider that God’s Word is both Holy and Righteous know there is right and wrong.

Yet, they have bought into the fact that man makes his own destiny and there is no Creator that is in control of us or our world.

There was an ad for something in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s, its theme was ‘If it feels good, do it!’

That has been the mantra of the majority of America since that time and it has been the devastation of our country.

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

It isn’t as if we haven’t been warned.

Later, Art :-)