Do You Know Your Master?

Isaiah 1

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken:  “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Isaiah 1:2-3

After reading Isaiah 1 I went back to my thoughts from the last post about God being disappointed in his children.  In this chapter it sounds like God is more than disappointed in his children---he is tremendously upset with them.  It is like he is saying, what are you doing, I have raised you better than this.  I have taught you how to live and now you are doing whatever you want.  God goes on to say that he does not even want their sacrifices.  Why? Because they are not truly sacrificing, they are just following procedure.  They are sacrificing physically, but not spiritually.  Am I a child that he is disappointed with?  I think I am a good person, but am I doing everything that I should be doing.  I was watching this story tonight about a former NFL player and how he went back to his high school to coach and teach.  He based everything he did on the fundamental principal that Jesus teaches us, serve Him by serving others.  At the end of the segment, he said you have to do something for others if you want God’s blessings, if you want God to move in your life then you need to be moving in others.  How true is that?  As we were shopping the other day I wondered how many hours are spent by God’s children shopping.  Now I know that there are things we have to buy, but I am talking about just going shopping because of our wants not our needs.  We say we don’t have time for studying the Bible, praying, or serving others, but really we do---it is our choice as to how we spend our time.  If it is something we really want to do, than we will do it.  So serving God has to be something we really want to do.  Do you?  I think I do and I have some really great ideas about things I could do, but then I get caught up in ‘busyness’ and don’t go forward with those ideas.  Like this blog, I know I am supposed to be writing this regularly, but I haven’t been lately.  That is nobody’s fault but mine---who is missing a word from God because I didn’t take time to write down the thoughts that He has given me.  How many moments am I missing for God because of my own selfishness?  This all may sound like I am down on myself, but really I am just self-evaluating and wanting to truly make some changes.  I am not down on myself at all, I am just wanting more from this life and I know that to make the most out of this life here on earth I have to follow the will of God.  Like I have said so many times before…God’s will is so much greater than what we could ever imagine for ourselves, it is there just waiting on us to act upon it.  Do you know your master?  We have to know God before we can know His will and like His will, He too is right there waiting on us to call on Him.