God's Veiw of Religion

Today's verse is Isaiah 1:13
     Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me;
      The new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
      It is iniquity, even the solemn meeting

We see here Religion: the attempt of man to appease God, by his own merits; this in our sinful state is impossible. For all of these things are as wickedness in the eyes of God. So then, how can a man be right with God, a question I believe Job asked, and also answered, but we will stay with Isaiah. Consider this: "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." Our God, the God of Heaven and Earth, the Creator of all that is desires a relationship with us, and since we are unable to please him, he has made a way for us to come to him through Jesus Christ the Lord. It is by Jesus' death on the cross that cleanses us from sin, and it is by his resurrection that it is removed from us "as far as the east is from the west."  When we come to God by this whatever we do can then please him. Amen
     
To God be the Glory
Scott

Taken from my daily reading plan: Song 6:2–8:14, Isa 1:1–2:5 and 2 Cor 8–10
Tomorrow's reading will be: Isa 2:6–7:9